Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schenk, Caress

Titel

Nationalism in the Russian media: content analysis of newspaper coverage surrounding conflict in Stavropol, 24 May–7 June 2007

Ist Teil von

• Nationalities papers, 2012-09, Vol.40 (5), p.783-805

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper considers the role of Russian print media and government in forming and publicizing nationalist sentiment through a content analysis of newspaper coverage of ethnic conflict in Stavropol in 2007. It shows that though the government officially pursues an inclusive multicultural approach (which I call associative nationalism), newspapers owned by Kremlin-loyal business holdings printed quite nationalist and sensationalist versions of the events in question. I argue that this is a passive promotion of a dissociative type of nationalism on the part of the Kremlin, which works against its stated purposes of bringing together all those in the Russian territory into a united national identity.