Very excited to have a new memo, "Language Revitalization and Recentralization in Russia," published in the new PONARS eBook alongside other valuable contributions from colleagues including @profklstewart.bsky.social! www.ponarseurasia.org/wp-content/u... - ThreadSky

kailmarkvart.bsky.social • 101 days ago

Very excited to have a new memo, "Language Revitalization and Recentralization in Russia," published in the new PONARS eBook alongside other valuable contributions from colleagues including @profklstewart.bsky.social! https://www.ponarseurasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PONARS_ebook_Nov_2024.pdf

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kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

As well as @guzelyusupova.bsky.social, whose work on these topics is essential... https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1965094

guzelyusupova.bsky.social•100 days ago

thank you, Kyle!

kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

In the memo, I discuss language policy in Russia as an illustrative example of the commitment problem.

kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

When Russia’s regions had greater political sovereignty (i.e. in the 1990s), the state committed to allowing them to pursue programs of linguistic revitalization.

kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

Once the regions lost their political sovereignty (i.e. after recentralization under Putin), they could not prevent the Russian state from reneging on this commitment.

kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

A key element of this story is that regional language policies have been - and remain - popular. In eight of the 15 regions surveyed in the 1993 Colton/Hough survey, a majority of respondents supported compulsory education in regional (titular) language.

kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

Data from a small-scale Levada telephone survey of two regions (Tatarstan and Buryatia) in 2022 indicate that, if anything, support for compulsory education has only grown in the interim in those two regions. (NB: bc of design differences, the results aren't directly comparable to those from 1993)

kailmarkvart.bsky.social•101 days ago

This project builds on previous work I conducted regarding interethnic variation in support for Russian President Putin and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. https://www.ponarseurasia.org/ethnic-variation-in-support-for-putin-and-the-invasion-of-ukraine/

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