The COVID Biopolitics in Russia
In this article, we discuss the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic as a biopolitical challenge that – along the lines of the contemporary academic debate on biopower – may be approached through the concepts of sovereignty and governmentality. Within this general framework, the authors look at the ch...
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| author | Andrey Makarychev Maria Goes Anna Kuznetsova |
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In this article, we discuss the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic as a
biopolitical challenge that – along the lines of the contemporary academic
debate on biopower – may be approached through the concepts of
sovereignty and governmentality. Within this general framework, the
authors look at the challenges Russia faces due to the corona crisis from
the viewpoint of domestic transformations within the ruling regime, mainly
focusing on center – periphery relations as a core element of the power
structure in Russia that demands a stronger emphasis on governmentality.
We outline several forms of regions’ distancing from the federal center:
digital empowerment, the resistance of the North, and the demand for
"people’s governors". Our main conclusion is that the relative administrative
autonomy obtained by the regions reflects the ongoing process of
decentralization of the Russian political system which will affect the
structural characteristics of Russian federalism in the future.
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| spelling | doaj.art-474d9727870b4e9ba76815767b95d4542022-12-30T04:02:46ZengInstitute of International Relations PragueCzech Journal of International Relations0323-18442570-94292020-12-0155410.32422/mv-cjir.1729The COVID Biopolitics in RussiaAndrey Makarychev0Maria Goes1Anna Kuznetsova2University of Tartu, EstoniaBarents Institute, Arctic University of NorwayUniversity of Tartu, Estonia In this article, we discuss the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic as a biopolitical challenge that – along the lines of the contemporary academic debate on biopower – may be approached through the concepts of sovereignty and governmentality. Within this general framework, the authors look at the challenges Russia faces due to the corona crisis from the viewpoint of domestic transformations within the ruling regime, mainly focusing on center – periphery relations as a core element of the power structure in Russia that demands a stronger emphasis on governmentality. We outline several forms of regions’ distancing from the federal center: digital empowerment, the resistance of the North, and the demand for "people’s governors". Our main conclusion is that the relative administrative autonomy obtained by the regions reflects the ongoing process of decentralization of the Russian political system which will affect the structural characteristics of Russian federalism in the future. https://ojs3.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/70COVID-19centre-region relationsgovernmentalitysovereigntyRussia |
| spellingShingle | Andrey Makarychev Maria Goes Anna Kuznetsova The COVID Biopolitics in Russia Czech Journal of International Relations COVID-19 centre-region relations governmentality sovereignty Russia |
| title | The COVID Biopolitics in Russia |
| title_full | The COVID Biopolitics in Russia |
| title_fullStr | The COVID Biopolitics in Russia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The COVID Biopolitics in Russia |
| title_short | The COVID Biopolitics in Russia |
| title_sort | covid biopolitics in russia |
| topic | COVID-19 centre-region relations governmentality sovereignty Russia |
| url | https://ojs3.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/70 |
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