Television and Cultural Translation in Ukraine

• In Event: Discourses of Stability, Change, Exchange: Cultural Translation and Global Television Studies

Abstract

Issues of cultural translation have emerged in the currently independent countries that used to be Soviet Union republics, as they have moved out of a system in which linguistic and cultural homogeneity was imposed through bureaucracy, the centralized media, and police terror. This study examines the problematic of cultural translation regarding television in Ukraine, one of the largest former Soviet Union republics. In the past 20 years Ukraine has been marked by conflicts between groups supporting the foundation of Ukrainian language media to revive a native Ukrainian culture, those advocating for the continued domination of Russian language media, and groups asserting the new supremacy of English language media that feature aspects of a globalized culture.

Authors

• Anna Popkova, University of Minnesota

• Yuliya Kartoshkina, University of North Dakota