Biopolitics and Hegemony in Contemporary Russian Cultural Policy
Romashko, T. (2018). Biopolitics and Hegemony in Contemporary Russian Cultural Policy. Russian Politics, 3(1), 88-113. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451-8921-00301005
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Since 2011, Russian ‘licensing civil society’ has predominated through censorship and the
restrictive regulation of arts and cultural societies. The current conservative project has
turned artistic space into public space, indicating moral abuse and a threat to the spiritual
health of the Russian nation. Consequently, the symbolic borders of human creativity and
individual freedom in arts and cultural societies have been reduced to patriotism, nationalism
and moral deductive functions of the state-approved program. This paper will explore
Russian state cultural policy and argue that biopolitics is its mainstream strategy. It examines
how the ensemble of sovereign and disciplinary power defines and instrumentalizes the
concept of culture while also producing lines of inclusion and exclusion within the
conservative political project. The major emphasis is placed on the question of political
control over the body, spirit and national identity.
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