RUSSIA VS. UKRAINE: A SUBALTERN EMPIRE AGAINST THE "POPULISM OF HOPE"
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2023.3" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363231.2023.3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
RUSSIA VS. UKRAINE: A SUBALTERN EMPIRE AGAINST THE "POPULISM OF HOPE"
Original language description
This article discusses the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine from a postcolonial perspective. It argues that the structure of coloniality in the region is tripartite: besides Russia and Ukraine, the "West" is present as the main significant Other for both sides. With regard to the West, Russia is a "subaltern empire" and Ukraine is a "double subaltern," peripheral to more than one center of power. Within this complex of imperiality and subalternity, Russia is engaging in a "catching-up imperialism" driven by resentment against the West. Russia has subsumed neighboring states, or parts of them, in brutal violation of the existing international order. Its leaders claim it is only mimicking the hegemon's (i.e. the West's) imperialist modus operandi. This geostrategic pattern is captured by Erik Ringmar's notion of "recognition games." Fighting in those "deadly games," Zelensky's Ukraine is breaking out of its place as a mute subaltern. The rhetorical aspect of Ukraine's response to Russian aggression can be called a horizontal "populism of hope." Ukraine has attained global visibility and recognition in the Northern hemisphere as a beacon of grassroots democracy, resilience and freedom. Russia, however, has rebranded itself as the spearhead of a global fight against Western hegemony. The outcome of this military and discursive standoff will largely define a future normative international order displaying new hierarchies of symbolic power.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia
ISSN
1213-4449
e-ISSN
2336-3231
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
39-60
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85164308954