Локальное сознание: случай кондопоги
Local consciousness: The case of Kondopoga
Author(s): Al'bert K. BajburinSubject(s): Anthropology, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: local awareness; post-Soviet Russian; Kondopoga; ethnic pogroms; racism; ethnic conflict; colloquial Russian; press; Internet forum; language of authorities; cultural anthropology
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the events which took place in a small Karelian town of Kondopoga in 2006 and are known as the first ethnic pogrom in the post-Soviet Russia. The town’s name became entrenched in the Russian language as a symbol of intolerance towards Caucasian nations. The analysis of today’s ethnic relations has been conducted on the basis of the press and internet forums from the perspective of an anthropologist of culture. With the example of the history and contemporary life of a small Karelian town, the author described the process of the local identity of its inhabitants being replaced by the ethnic identity (Kondopoga --- a Russian town) and analyzes the causes of the process. He shows, among others, how a clash of what is regional with the ethnically “foreign” leads to ideological justification for racist ideas, which in the official idiom of the authorities are interpreted as “ethnic conflicts”, “natural” in a multi-ethnic state, such as Russia.
Journal: Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka I Kultury
- Issue Year: 19/2007
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 153-161
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Russian