Governmentality beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia ALEXANDRAYATSYK
Year: 2016

This chapter addresses diﬀerent dimensions of governmentality, or practices of governance, as exempliﬁed by two cases of sports mega-events that took place in Ukraine and Russia approximately at the same time. I particularly focus on the 2012 European Football Championship in Lviv (Euro 2012) and the 2013 World Student Games in Kazan (the Universiade 2013).1 Comparisons between them can be theoretically fruitful for understanding some challenges the two countries faced after the eruption of the