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

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Author

  • 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.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

15-25

Publication/Series

Euxeinos

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

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

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2296-0708