| ID | 159216 |
| Title Proper | Terrorist attacks in the Volga region, 2012–13: hegemonic narratives and everyday understandings of (in)security |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Shaykhutdinov, Renat |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Discussions generated in Russian and Western academic, policy-making and media circles by recent terrorist attacks in the Middle Volga and Urals (İdel-Ural) derive primarily from hegemonic state discourses and as such miss the wealth of discussion generated in local-language sources about the causes and implications of these attacks. The goal of this study is to provide an examination of the various perspectives concerning terrorism in the region, focusing on the level of Tatar (and secondarily Russian) society. Employing insights from a recent body of literature on ‘everyday’ and ‘vernacular’ (in)securities as well as on conspiracy theories, I examine Tatar-language Internet forums posted on the Radio Free Europe website related to the terror events of July 2012. I detect no incitement to violence among the Tatar-speaking participants. However, my results suggest that Tatar publics use diverse interpretive repertoires to make sense of a securitizing reality. The study suggests that Tatar-speaking publics depart in important ways from the dominant narrative of the ‘police’ order as well as from the Weltanschauung of their Russian-speaking compatriots. |
| `In' analytical Note | Central Asian Survey Vol. 37, No.1; Mar 2018: p.50-67 |
| Journal Source | Central Asian Survey Vol: 37 No 1 |
| Key Words | Terrorism ; Public Opinion ; Tatarstan ; Everyday Security ; Social Media ; Vernacular Security ; İdel-Ural |