Race and Racism in Russia

by Zakharov, Nikolay

• ISBN13: 9781137481191
• ISBN10: 1137481196
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-26
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Since the 1990s, there have been striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia. By showing how the processes of globalization and racialization are interrelated, Zakharov seeks to demonstrate and explore the roles these play in Russia's new nationhood project. The book employs a new threefold theoretical elaboration of racialization, examining the process in terms of 'making', 'doing', and finally 'becoming'. These three elements are considered through discussions of a wide variety of aspects of Russian identity and nationalism, from the analysis of subcultures to explorations of nation-building.

Race and Racism in Russia provides important new theories and substantive insights into race and ethnicity in a Russian context, and will be a valuable resource for scholars of Postcolonial Studies, Social Theory and Race.

Author Biography

Nikolay Zakharov is Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University, Sweden. He holds PhDs from Moscow State University, Russia and Uppsala University, Sweden. His main research interests are in social theory, sociology of race and ethnicity, and in Russian studies.

Table of Contents

1. Global Racisms and Racism in Russia: An Introduction
2. Race and Racism in the Russian Past
3. Race, Racialization, and Racism: A New Theoretical Framework
4. Making Race in the Russian Academia
5. Rioting for Whiteness: Doing Race on the Squares of Moscow
6. Becoming Racial: Race As a New Form of Inequality
7. Geopolitics of Racism and the Nation-Building Processes
8. Concluding Discussion