Tears in the patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the display of a multiethnic nation
Författare
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.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
15-25
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Euxeinos
Issue
12
Fulltext
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