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Clowes, Edith W.; Erbslöh, Gisela; Kokobobo, Ani

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“…Regional identities are strong even beyond ethnic republics (Clowes 2016). The legacy of a reinterpretation of the periphery as challenger and innovator to the center in Russian thought of the 1980s is retained in continued efforts to express regional consciousness and narrate the local and regional past (Clowes, Erbslöh, and Kokobobo 2018). Furthermore, there are regional differences in understandings of the Russian nation, affecting, for example, attitudes to the role of oil and gas in Russian national identity (Rutland 2015) and teachers’ perceptions of bias in accounts of national history in federally approved textbooks (Zajda 2015).…”

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The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

Wilmers

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the role of place-based identity politics in constructions of the Russian nation by nongovernmental actors in the cities of Kazan and Ekaterinburg. Departing from more established approaches to the study of nation building concerned with elite strategies and actions, it contributes to an emerging line of inquiry focused on the agency of mesolevel actors. Drawing on interviews and analysis of public communications, the article demonstrates that actors such as museums, activist groups, and religious institutions creatively employ mainstream discursive practices present also in state narratives to anchor the nation in local symbols. At the same time, they position themselves in locally specific identity cleavages concerning city, regional, and ethnonational minority identities. The findings show that the imbrication of local identity politics in their narratives can problematize nation building by exposing contradictions in federal discourses or troubling the association of nation and state. Emphasizing the importance of locally situated processes of constructing the nation in conjunction with other scales of belonging, the article argues that nation building in Russia is complicated by mesolevel practices of identity making that can simultaneously support and subvert it.

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Section: Challenges To Russian Nation Building and The Role Of Local ...mentioning

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The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

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2022

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The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

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