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Tears in the patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the display of a multiethnic nation

In English

Författare

  • Emil Edenborg

Summary, in English

This article examines what image of Russia is being projected in official rhetoric about the Sochi Olympics. It is argued that the imagined community being displayed is a diverse, inclusive and tolerant nation, even an international example of ethnic conviviality. The article puts this narrative in historical perspective, relating it to the mnogonatsionalnost policies of tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. This imagination, though explicitly very inclusive, rests on important exclusions and silences. By selective exhibitions of minority-groups the other is domesticated, stereotyped and reduced to kitsch and folklore, glossing over conflict-ridden histories and prevailing inequalities.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

15-25

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Euxeinos

Issue

12

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Universitaet St. Gallen * Center fuer Governance und Kultur in Europa

Ämne

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2296-0708