“We are the Arctic”: Identities at the Arctic Winter Games 2016

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Arctic Anthropology Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI:10.3368/aa.55.1.105
R. C. Thomsen, C. Ren, R. Mahadevan
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In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also caters to other collective identity constructions. In our analysis, we present and discuss four collective identity manifestations at the AWG 2016: “panarctic,” “contranational/regional,” Indigenous, and “autocommunicating” national identity. Our study suggests that the AWG event not only reproduces existing national identities or the singular panarctic identity that organizers actively promote, but works as a catalyst for the manifestation of other identity positions also. In practice, competition at this sporting event extends to identity discourses competing for hegemony, but the games also create spaces for identity negotiation and willful identity entanglement.
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“我们是北极”:2016年北极冬奥会上的身份认同
在这篇文章中,我们将2016年北极冬季运动会(AWG)作为北极、土著和国家认同建设的场所进行探索,借鉴2016年北极冬季运动会的规划和执行以及与参与者和利益相关者团体进行的调查。我们发现,尽管2016年AWG赛事看似是奥林匹克形态下的跨国体育竞赛,是传统国家身份表现的载体,但它也迎合了其他集体身份建构。在我们的分析中,我们提出并讨论了2016年AWG上的四种集体认同表现:“泛北极”、“跨国家/地区”、“土著”和“自动沟通”的国家认同。我们的研究表明,AWG活动不仅再现了现有的国家身份或组织者积极推动的单一泛北极身份,而且还作为其他身份立场表现的催化剂。在实践中,这项体育赛事的竞争延伸到争夺霸权的身份话语,但奥运会也为身份谈判和任意的身份纠缠创造了空间。
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Arctic Anthropology
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期刊介绍: Arctic Anthropology, founded in 1962 by Chester S. Chard, is an international journal devoted to the study of Old and New World northern cultures and peoples. Archaeology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and related disciplines are represented, with emphasis on: studies of specific cultures of the arctic, subarctic and contiguous regions of the world; the peopling of the New World; relationships between New World and Eurasian cultures of the circumpolar zone; contemporary problems and culture change among northern peoples; and new directions in interdisciplinary northern research.
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