Engraving Portraits in the Skin: Vernacular Commemorative Tattoos for Ceausescu, Tito and Stalin

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=O60-ZQXdfI" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=O60-ZQXdfI</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.10" target="_blank" >10.1017/nps.2022.10</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Engraving Portraits in the Skin: Vernacular Commemorative Tattoos for Ceausescu, Tito and Stalin

Original language description

This article focuses on the privately created commemorative practice of getting the official portraits of three former socialist leaders as a tattoo: Nicolae Ceauşescu, Josip Broz Tito, and Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin). The mnemonic actors who have indulged in this practice after the 1990s contribute to a culture informed by vernacular memorials that conform to neither the official politics of remembrance and its aesthetics nor its content. Correspondingly, this article focuses on the aesthetic, political, and epistemic intricacies of remembering through the inked body. Unlike memorial tattoos that mark the recognition of a group that has suffered the same trauma, the commemorative tattoos analyzed in this article reflect a centrifugal set of identity concerns, ranging from Yugonostalgia to individualized spaces of self-healing and identity affirmation. The argument put forth is that tattoos can act as vernacular commemorations collected into a body archive of nostalgia for the ontological security of the past and &quot;great leadership.&quot; Thus, the overarching question is not how and why people materialize memories through their bodies but rather to what ends the inked body accommodates commemorative representations of former political leaders who are usually depicted in public memory as &quot;unworthy&quot; of commemoration.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nationalities Papers

ISSN

0090-5992

e-ISSN

1465-3923

Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

563-582

UT code for WoS article

000809273400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85159286597