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Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

Author(s) -

Alexey V. Mikhalev

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

prace etnograficzne

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2299-9558

pISSN - 0083-4327

DOI - 10.4467/22999558.pe.21.009.14131

Subject(s) - politics , ideology , power (physics) , communism , symbolic power , the symbolic , transformation (genetics) , space (punctuation) , sociology , semiotics , political science , epistemology , linguistics , law , philosophy , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , gene

The paper focuses on Soviet symbols in Inner Asian capitals and the conflicts around socialist legacy. We analyze Ulaanbaatar, Kyzyl, and Ulan-Ude as three different models of transformation of political symbols in urban space. All three capitals in their names contain the word “red” semiotically associated with communist ideology. Correspondingly, we see three different models of symbolic struggle for urban space. Theoretically, the paper is based upon the model of symbolic politics. Empirically, the research is based on materials of our own observations, discourse analysis of media, and official municipal documents. In general, the research is an analysis of symbolic practices of power in the conditions of a number of complex changes in Inner Asia.

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