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The 2014 Winter Olympics Bid Book as Site of National Identity Constitution

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The chapter locates itself in the tradition of British cultural studies and draws from governmentality studies, according to which power is wielded adopting different technologies. Inquiring after the ‘how’ of power, the research focus shifts toward power/knowledge arrangements in society and culture, for example, within the Olympic Games at Sochi. Adopting these two vantage points enables analysis of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi as a mega event that shapes and reproduces Russian political identities. Hence, the paper pays particular attention to four areas of the Olympic candidature file: (1) modernisation, (2) democracy, and most prominently (3) the issue of diversity, which is tightly connected with (4) the security issue.

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I thank Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk for the valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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  1. Department of History, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland

    Philipp Casula

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  1. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Andrey Makarychev

  2. Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

    Alexandra Yatsyk

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This paper appeared first in Italian as ‘Le Olimpiadi di Soci, specchio del nazionalismo e del multiculturalismo russi’, in Nazioni e Regioni 5/2015 and is reproduced with kind permission of its editors.

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Casula, P. (2016). The 2014 Winter Olympics Bid Book as Site of National Identity Constitution. In: Makarychev, A., Yatsyk, A. (eds) Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49095-7_3

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