In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also caters to other collective identity constructions. In our analysis, we present and discuss four collective identity manifestations at the AWG 2016: “panarctic,” “contranational/regional,” Indigenous, and “autocommunicating” national identity. Our study suggests that the AWG event not only reproduces existing national identities or the singular panarctic identity that organizers actively promote, but works as a catalyst for the manifestation of other identity positions also. In practice, competition at this sporting event extends to identity discourses competing for hegemony, but the games also create spaces for identity negotiation and willful identity entanglement.

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“我们是北极人”：2016年北极冬季运动会的身份

在本文中，我们将借鉴2016年AWG的规划和执行以及与参与者和利益相关方团体进行的调查，探索2016年北极冬季运动会（AWG）作为建立北极，土著和民族特色的场所。我们证明，尽管AWG 2016赛事看似是奥运会形式中的对抗性体育比赛，因此是传统民族身份表现的一种手段，但它也迎合了其他集体身份的建构。在我们的分析中，我们在AWG 2016上提出并讨论了四种集体身份表现形式：“泛太平洋”，“国际/地区性”，“土著”和“自动传达”国家身份。我们的研究表明，AWG事件不仅重现了组织者积极倡导的现有国家身份或单一的胰腺身份，但也可以作为其他身份地位体现的催化剂。在实践中，此体育赛事的竞争扩展到争夺霸权的身份话语，但游戏也为身份协商和故意的身份纠缠创造了空间。