TY - GEN AU - Hutchings,Stephen AU - Tolz,Vera TI - Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference T2 - BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies SN - 9781315722863 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Media studies: TV and society KW - bicssc KW - Social and cultural anthropology KW - Regional / International studies KW - History KW - Popular culture KW - Politics and government KW - Sociology KW - Ethnic studies KW - Young Man KW - Pussy Riot KW - Entire Recording Period KW - Vesti Nedeli KW - North Caucasian Origin KW - Manezhnaia Riots KW - Pussy Riot Scandal KW - Maksim Shevchenko KW - Pussy Riot Affair KW - Beslan School Hostage Crisis KW - Moscow Patriarchate KW - North Caucasian KW - Russian Television Broadcasts KW - Russian Federation KW - Inter-ethnic Cohesion KW - Ethnic Criminality KW - Punk Prayer KW - Russia’s Political Future KW - Putin's Article KW - Protectionist Nationalism KW - Civil Society KW - Victory Day KW - Pop Star KW - Inter-ethnic Relations KW - National Question N1 - Open Access N2 - Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. 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 discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised 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 ethnonationalism 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 overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102433/1/9781317526247.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160312 ER -