Post-Socialist Political Necromancy: Weaponization of Dead Bodies in Czech Culture Wars

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F24%3A43962998" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/24:43962998 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/postsocialist-political-necromancy-weaponization-of-dead-bodies-in-czech-culture-wars/2C9E7DC381226F79E5AB285DF7D5790F#article" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/postsocialist-political-necromancy-weaponization-of-dead-bodies-in-czech-culture-wars/2C9E7DC381226F79E5AB285DF7D5790F#article</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.102" target="_blank" >10.1017/nps.2022.102</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Post-Socialist Political Necromancy: Weaponization of Dead Bodies in Czech Culture Wars
Original language description
This article contributes to discussions on culture wars, memory politics, and the politics of dead bodies. It uses the example of the annual celebration of the liberation of the city of Pilsen by the American army in 1945 to demonstrate the use of the concept of “political necromancy.” The Pilsen celebrations are one of the events during which participating politicians use fallen (or suffering) soldiers as an argument to support current political goals. Metaphorically, the politician as a necromancer brings the fallen back to life and sends them as an army of the dead to fight in culture wars and memory wars. The article focuses on introducing the different strategies used in this process (depersonalizing the fallen or creating a ghost hero) and shows how dead bodies and the appropriate use of memory politics are used to bolster foreign policy ties to the US and to lash out against Russia and communism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
<a href="/en/project/GA18-08605S" target="_blank" >GA18-08605S: Instrumental Politicization of History as a Legitimization Tool of Political Regimes</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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