Rethinking identification with the hegemonic discourse of a "strong Russia" through Laclau and Mouffe.

Autor/in	Müller, Martin
Titel	Rethinking identification with the hegemonic discourse of a "strong Russia" through Laclau and Mouffe. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Umdenken der Identifikation mit dem Hegemoniediskurs eines 'starken Russland' durch Laclau und Mouffe.
Quelle	Aus: Casula, Philipp (Hrsg.): Identities and politics during the Putin presidency. The discursive foundations of Russia's stability. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verl. (2009) S. 313-333Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Soviet and post-soviet politics and society. 92
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISSN	1614-3515
Schlagwörter	Poststrukturalismus; Identifikation; Ethnographie; Diskursanalyse; Elite; Geopolitik; Großmacht; Internationale Beziehungen; Machtpolitik; Nachfolgestaat; Nachsozialistische Gesellschaft; Nationale Identität; Politik; Hochschullehrer; Ambivalenz; Diskurs; NATO; Europäische Union; Student; Russland; Sowjetunion
Abstract	"From the conceptual perspective of poststructuralist discourse theory as developed by Laclau and Mouffe, this contribution rethinks the project of a strong Russia. Drawing an material gathered during nine months of ethnographic research at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MG/MO), the premier school for educating future Russian elites, it argues that identification with a strong Russia is inherently ambiguous: Articulations of a strong Russia are always accompanied by the imminent possibility of a weak Russia. This constant possibility of a weak Russia prevents the full realisation of the identity of a strong Russia. The project of a strong Russia is therefore structured around a constitutive lack: It is always incomplete, but this incompleteness, at the same time, is the condition of its very possibility." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2011/1