Shaping museum discourse in Russia: political-legal perspective
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-3-13-31
Abstract
The article is devoted to the consideration of the political and legal aspect of the modern museum sphere of Russia. It provides an overview of the regulatory framework of the modern Russian museum sphere, constituting the rules and order of museum discourse. The author shows how the “principle of articulation between a number of discursive events” (according to M. Foucault), which is currently being implemented in the political and legal rhetoric of Russia, lays down, on the one hand, a new design of the national museum discourse, and on the other hand, determines the effects of cultural policy in the domestic and foreign policy contour of political communications of the state. Taking into account the identified contexts, the article defines the following effects of the political and legal dimension of museum discourse: (1) conceptualization and semantization of national security; (2) reproduction of the cultural code for the purposes of sovereign particularism; and (3) integration and collaboration of all actors of cultural policy. In conclusion, the author notes that the existing regulatory and legal order of museum discourse can imperatively generate a network of discursive dimensions of museum discourse in the field of global and national geopolitics in the near future.
About the Author
M. S. Arkannikova
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Arkannikova Marina Sergeevna – CandSc (Polit.), associate professor, director of the Higher School of Media Communications and Public Relations of the Institute for the Humanities; doctoral student of the Institute of the Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communications of the St. Petersburg State University, member of the expert council of the State Duma committee on youth policy
195251, St. Petersburg, Politekhnicheskaya st., 29/B
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Arkannikova M.S. Shaping museum discourse in Russia: political-legal perspective. Communicology. 2025;13(3):13-31. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2025-13-3-13-31
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