Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference PDF
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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalization and associated international trends are disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to inter-ethnic cohe- sion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that dis- course may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through cen- tralized government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethno-nationalism in Russia, which harks back to ‘old-fashioned’ values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and over- bearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media. Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies Series Editor: Richard Sakwa, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent Editorial Committee: Roy Allison, St Antony’s College, Oxford Birgit Beumers, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth Richard Connolly, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow Peter Duncan, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Zoe Knox, School of History, University of Leicester Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath David Moon, Department of History, University of York Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Birmingham Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow Founding Editorial Committee Member: George Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research- level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects. 1 Ukraine’s Foreign and Security 12 Small-Town Russia Policy, 1991–2000 Postcommunist livelihoods Roman Wolczuk and identities: a portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, 2 Political Parties in the Bednodemyanovsk and Russian Regions Zubtsov, 1999–2000 Derek S. Hutcheson Anne White 13 Russian Society and the 3 Local Communities and Post- Orthodox Church Communist Transformation Religion in Russia after Edited by Simon Smith Communism Zoe Knox 4 Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe 14 Russian Literary Culture in J.C. Sharman the Camera Age The word as image 5 Political Elites and the Stephen Hutchings New Russia Anton Steen 15 Between Stalin and Hitler Class war and race war on the 6 Dostoevsky and the Idea of Dvina, 1940–46 Russianness Geoffrey Swain Sarah Hudspith 16 Literature in Post-Communist 7 Performing Russia – Folk Russia and Eastern Europe Revival and Russian Identity The Russian, Czech and Slovak Laura J. Olson fiction of the changes, 1988–98 Rajendra A. Chitnis 8 Russian Transformations Edited by Leo McCann 17 The Legacy of Soviet Dissent Dissidents, democratisation and 9 Soviet Music and Society under radical nationalism in Russia Robert Horvath Lenin and Stalin The baton and sickle 18 Russian and Soviet Film Edited by Neil Edmunds Adaptations of Literature, 1900–2001 10 State Building in Ukraine Screening the word The Ukranian parliament, Edited by Stephen Hutchings and 1990–2003 Anat Vernitski Sarah Whitmore 19 Russia as a Great Power 11 Defending Human Rights in Dimensions of security under Russia Putin Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and Edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Human Rights Commissioner, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil 1969–2003 Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg and Emma Gilligan Christer Pursiainen 20 Katyn and the Soviet Massacre 30 The Transformation of Urban of 1940 Space in Post-Soviet Russia Truth, justice and memory Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade George Sanford and Evgenij Bondarchuk 21 Conscience, Dissent and 31 Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920–40 Reform in Soviet Russia From Red Square to the Philip Boobbyer Left Bank Ludmila Stern 22 The Limits of Russian Democratisation 32 The Germans of the Emergency powers and states Soviet Union of emergency Irina Mukhina Alexander N. Domrin 33 Re-constructing the Post-Soviet 23 The Dilemmas of Industrial Region Destalinisation The Donbas in transition A social and cultural history of Edited by Adam Swain reform in the Khrushchev era Edited by Polly Jones 34 Chechnya – Russia’s “War on Terror” 24 News Media and Power John Russell in Russia 35 The New Right in the New Olessia Koltsova Europe Czech transformation and right- 25 Post-Soviet Civil Society wing politics, 1989–2006 Democratization in Russia and Seán Hanley the Baltic States Anders Uhlin 36 Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe 26 The Collapse of Communist Edited by Alexander Wöll and Power in Poland Harald Wydra Jacqueline Hayden 37 Energy Dependency, Politics 27 Television, Democracy and and Corruption in the Former Elections in Russia Soviet Union Sarah Oates Russia’s power, Oligarchs’ profits and Ukraine’s missing 28 Russian Constitutionalism energy policy, 1995–2006 Historical and contemporary Margarita M. Balmaceda development Andrey N. Medushevsky 38 Peopling the Russian Periphery Borderland colonization in 29 Late Stalinist Russia Eurasian history Society between reconstruction Edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader and Willard and reinvention Sunderland Edited by Juliane Fürst 39 Russian Legal Culture Before 48 Globalization and the State in and After Communism Central and Eastern Europe Criminal justice, politics and the The politics of foreign direct public sphere investment Frances Nethercott Jan Drahokoupil 40 Political and Social Thought in 49 Local Politics and Post-Communist Russia Democratisation in Russia Axel Kaehne Cameron Ross 41 The Demise of the Soviet 50 The Emancipation of the Serfs Communist Party in Russia Atsushi Ogushi Peace arbitrators and the development of civil society 42 Russian Policy towards China Roxanne Easley and Japan The El’tsin and Putin periods 51 Federalism and Local Politics Natasha Kuhrt in Russia Edited by Cameron Ross and 43 Soviet Karelia Adrian Campbell Politics, planning and terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1920–1939 52 Transitional Justice in Nick Baron Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 44 Reinventing Poland Reckoning with the communist past Economic and political Edited by Lavinia Stan transformation and evolving national identity 53 The Post-Soviet Russian Media Edited by Martin Myant and Conflicting signals Terry Cox Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia 45 The Russian Revolution in Rulyova Retreat, 1920–24 Soviet workers and the new 54 Minority Rights in Central and communist elite Eastern Europe Simon Pirani Edited by Bernd Rechel 46 Democratisation and Gender in 55 Television and Culture in Contemporary Russia Putin’s Russia Suvi Salmenniemi Remote control Stephen Hutchings and 47 Narrating Post/Communism Natalia Rulyova Colonial discourse and Europe’s borderline civilization 56 The Making of Modern Nataša Kovačević Lithuania Tomas Balkelis 57 Soviet State and Society Under 66 Russia and Islam Nikita Khrushchev State, society and radicalism Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith Roland Dannreuther and Luke March 58 Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 67 Celebrity and Glamour in 1944–1950 Contemporary Russia Michael Fleming Shocking chic Edited by Helena Goscilo and 59 Democratic Elections in Vlad Strukov Poland, 1991–2007 Frances Millard 68 The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia 60 Critical Theory in Russia and The Socialist Revolutionary the West Party, 1917–1939 Alastair Renfrew and Elizabeth White Galin Tihanov 69 Learning to Labour in Post- 61 Promoting Democracy and Soviet Russia Human Rights in Russia Vocational youth in transition European organization and Charles Walker Russia’s socialization Sinikukka Saari 70 Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia 62 The Myth of the Russian Tina Burrett Intelligentsia Old intellectuals in the 71 Political Theory and new Russia Community Building in Inna Kochetkova Post-Soviet Russia Edited by Oleg Kharkhordin and 63 Russia’s Federal Relations Risto Alapuro Putin’s reforms and management of the regions 72 Disease, Health Care and Elena A. Chebankova Government in Late Imperial Russia 64 Constitutional Bargaining in Life and death on the Volga, Russia, 1990–93 1823–1914 Institutions and uncertainty Charlotte E. Henze Edward Morgan-Jones 73 Khrushchev in the Kremlin 65 Building Big Business in Russia Policy and government in the The impact of informal corporate Soviet Union, 1953–1964 governance practices Edited by Melanie Ilic and Yuko Adachi Jeremy Smith 74 Citizens in the Making in 83 The Baltic States from the Post-Soviet States Soviet Union to the European Olena Nikolayenko Union Identity, discourse and power in 75 The Decline of Regionalism in the post-communist transition of Putin’s Russia Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Boundary issues Richard Mole J. Paul Goode 84 The EU–Russia Borderland New contexts for regional 76 The Communist Youth League cooperation and the Transformation of the Edited by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Soviet Union, 1917–1932 Liikanen and James W. Scott Matthias Neumann 85 The Economic Sources of 77 Putin’s United Russia Party Social Order Development in S. P. Roberts Post-Socialist Eastern Europe Richard Connolly 78 The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours 86 East European Towards a more ambitious Diasporas, Migration and partnership? Cosmopolitanism Elena Korosteleva Edited by Ulrike Ziemer and Sean P. Roberts 79 Russia’s Identity in International Relations 87 Civil Society in Putin’s Russia Images, perceptions, Elena Chebankova misperceptions 88 Post-Communist Poland – Edited by Ray Taras Contested Pasts and Future Identities 80 Putin as Celebrity and Ewa Ochman Cultural Icon Edited by Helena Goscilo 89 Soviet Economic Management under Khrushchev 81 Russia – Democracy Versus The Sovnarkhoz reform Modernization Nataliya Kibita A dilemma for Russia and for the world 90 Soviet Consumer Culture in Edited by Vladislav Inozemtsev the Brezhnev Era and Piotr Dutkiewicz Natalya Chernyshova 82 Putin’s Preventative 91 The Transition to Democracy Counter-Revolution in Hungary Post-Soviet authoritarianism and Árpád Göncz and the post- communist Hungarian presidency the spectre of Velvet Revolution Dae Soon Kim Robert Horvath 92 The Politics of HIV/AIDS in 97 Cinema, State Socialism and Russia Society in the Soviet Union and Ulla Pape Eastern Europe, 1917 –1989 Re-visions 93 The Capitalist Transformation Edited by Sanja Bahun and John of State Socialism Haynes The making and breaking of State Socialist society, and 98 Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet what followed Russia David Lane Russians and non-Russians in the North Caucasus 94 Disability in Eastern Europe Andrew Foxall and the Former Soviet Union History, policy and everyday life 99 Eastern Europe and the Edited by Michael Rasell and Challenges of Modernity, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova 1800–2000 Stefano Bianchini 95 The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania 100 Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Memory and modernity in the Russian Television wake of war Mediating post-Soviet difference Violeta Davoliūté Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz 96 Ideologies of Eastness in 101 Russia–China Relations in the Central and Eastern Europe Post-Crisis International Order Tomasz Zarycki Marcin Kaczmarski Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television Mediating post-Soviet difference Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz London and New York
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