Tears in the patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the display of a multiethnic nation
(2013) In Euxeinos p.15-25- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Edenborg, Emil LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Euxeinos
- issue
- 12
- pages
- 15 - 25
- publisher
- Universitaet St. Gallen * Center fuer Governance und Kultur in Europa
- ISSN
- 2296-0708
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 47fc8b83-b504-4c71-99e3-0f03a36931d3 (old id 4935209)
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