EUROPE AS AN OBJECT OF DESIRE : UKRAINE BETWEEN "PSYCHOLOGICAL EUROPE" AND THE "SOVIET MENTALITY"
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
EUROPE AS AN OBJECT OF DESIRE : UKRAINE BETWEEN "PSYCHOLOGICAL EUROPE" AND THE "SOVIET MENTALITY"
Original language description
The article explores the idea of Europe in the Ukrainian national imaginary and its correlates in the mental patterns of contemporary Ukrainians. The conceptual tension exists between the imaginary "Us" (an affirmative "Ukraine is Europe") and the real "Us" embedded in Soviet practices and mental attitudes. The main actors articulating the concept of Europe are distinguished: political elites / "officials"; cultural elites / "intellectuals"; civil society / "activists"; and lay citizens / "electorate". It is proved that for most Ukrainians Europe is not a value-in-itself; it is an empty signifier with variable content defined by divergent agendas. For Ukrainian politicians, declarative European integration is a geopolitical tool aimed at obtaining prestige/recognition and a protective umbrella from Russia, with few repercussions on domestic policies. For cultural elites, "Europe" stands as a common cultural heritage, a soil breeding searches for national identity. Immanent Europeanness of the Ukrainian culture is proclaimed in the "frontstage" discourse, while in the "backstage" discourse, the lack of (self)recognition manifests itself through the symptom of being "more European than Europe". Attempts "to acquire ourselves via Europe" are complemented with the desire "to rescue Europe via acquiring ourselves". For citizens, "Europe" is a pathway to prosperity ("to build Europe at home"); yet, the content remains vague. A political struggle unfolds between the stakeholders of the captured state and public activists for the cornerston
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Topos
ISSN
1815-0047
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
LT - LITHUANIA
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
79-99
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