Cultural Sovereignty in Development Discourses

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the concept of cultural sovereignty in discussions about development in the context of development policy. The main objective of this work is to review domestic scientific research in the field of studying cultural sovereignty. The review provides a brief description of research approaches to the concept, specifies the structural and cognitive components of the conceptualization of the concept, defines the principles of assembling the cultural sovereignty of the civilizational design of modern Russia in the context of the communicative approach. The author shows that the study of cultural sovereignty in the scientific community is focused on nation-building as the basic framework of cognitive sovereignty and the systemic link between power and society in the context of geopolitical challenges and the transformation of the world order. Analyzing the category of cultural sovereignty at the intersection of methodological approaches of cultural studies, political science and discourse studies, the author considers it promising to study the concept in the context of three discursive constructs: museum discourse – discourse of state memory policy – discourse of national identity, considered in relation to the modern political realities of Russia in the logic of implementing the national security strategy. The author concludes that, operating with the concept of cultural sovereignty and taking into account the linguistic foundation of the development of any civilization, one cannot ignore the keeper of cognitive sovereignty, the cultural code of a nation – its language. In this regard, discourse science occupies an increasingly important place in the system of sciences on culture in general, and on cultural sovereignty in particular.