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This chapter proffers a biopolitical approach to various practices of using language as a marker of different regimes of belonging and forms of biopower. I dwell upon two sides of biopolitics—the phenomena of linguistic sovereignty and vernacular biopolitics. My major interest in using these concepts is to find out what kind of changes the Russian–Ukrainian war triggered for Estonian Russophones, and how these transformations might be analytically discussed through the prism of linguistic sovereignty as characterizing the state policy in this realm, and vernacular biopolitics as reflecting a variety of grass-roots language practices unfolding beyond the domain of sovereign politics.

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Linguistic Sovereignty and Vernacular Biopolitics: Estonian Russophones as a Postcolonial Phenomenon

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    2026年

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  • Andrey Makarychev

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This chapter proffers a biopolitical approach to various practices of using language as a marker of different regimes of belonging and forms of biopower. I dwell upon two sides of biopolitics—the phenomena of linguistic sovereignty and vernacular biopolitics. My major interest in using these concepts is to find out what kind of changes the Russian–Ukrainian war triggered for Estonian Russophones, and how these transformations might be analytically discussed through the prism of linguistic sovereignty as characterizing the state policy in this realm, and vernacular biopolitics as reflecting a variety of grass-roots language practices unfolding beyond the domain of sovereign politics.