Russia's Regional Identities

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

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“…Memory and place-based experience can be mobilized in constructions of national identity, sometimes creating distance from the state (Bell 2018; Pilkington 2012). In ethnic republics, some cultural productions by minority nationalists portray Russia as the ethnonational Other, rather than a state-linked Motherland (Romero 2018; Gradskova 2018). Attending to the politics of place that emerge from contestation over identity is therefore an important entry point into understanding the potential impact of mesolevel constructions of the nation.…”

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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

Wilmers

2022

Nationalities Papers

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Diversity or Unity: Interpreting the Discourse of a Multi-Ethnic Russian Nation in Kazan

Wilmers

2024

Europe-Asia Studies

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Russia's Regional Identities

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

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

Diversity or Unity: Interpreting the Discourse of a Multi-Ethnic Russian Nation in Kazan

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