“Eleanor Knott's Kin Majorities is an empirically and theoretically welcome contribution to our knowledge about identity groups in post-Soviet spaces. Her terrific account challenges assumptions about what it means to be in a majority group with an ‘external homeland’ and – as with all good books – sets the agenda for much more research to come.” Edward Schatz, University of Toronto and editor of Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power
“In a history of contested borderlands, Kin Majorities is a book about loss and gain. It looks “bottom-up” beyond states and ethnicity to meanings and practices. There is a great explicatory thrust to Knott’s intersectional book in that it should be read for its methodology, the new categories she has created for the identity-citizenship space.” The Russian Review
"Kin Majorities has many insights to offer international lawyers, international relations scholars, and political theorists in addition to experts on Russian politics, Romanian politics, post-Soviet affairs, and comparative ethnic conflict." LSE Review of Books
“An exemplary reminder of the ambiguity, hybridity and multiplicity of national identity.” Europe-Asia Studies
