Belarusian Protests: Collective Memory and Symbolic Sites in the Context of War Memory

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Belarusian Protests: Collective Memory and Symbolic Sites in the Context of War Memory

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In August 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus, followed by waves of mass protests and a period of harsh repression by the Lukashenko regime. In this period of myriad political conflicts and polarized society, there have been numerous cases of re-appropriation of language and symbols associ- ated with World War II. In this paper, I explore the ways in which the Belarusian protest movement of the 2020s shaped memories of past conflicts, which it subsequently transferred into these struggles for memory. This paper attempts to capture what kind of memories and historical associations were used by the protesters to convey messages about their identity, values, and ideas. Stopping at several examples, I reflect on the activists&apos; repertoire of actions in which the movement sought to disrupt and reformulate the dominant practice of the official narrative of the Great Patriotic War, which is central to the legacy in the symbolic canon of the contemporary Belarusian regime. The memory of the Great Patriotic War and the founding myth of the partisan republic, which for many years were the exclusive domain of the neo-Soviet identity, were transformed during the protests into a potent symbolic and rhetorical arsenal for mobilizing opponents of the regime.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Belarusian Protests: Collective Memory and Symbolic Sites in the Context of War Memory

Popis výsledku anglicky

In August 2020, presidential elections were held in Belarus, followed by waves of mass protests and a period of harsh repression by the Lukashenko regime. In this period of myriad political conflicts and polarized society, there have been numerous cases of re-appropriation of language and symbols associ- ated with World War II. In this paper, I explore the ways in which the Belarusian protest movement of the 2020s shaped memories of past conflicts, which it subsequently transferred into these struggles for memory. This paper attempts to capture what kind of memories and historical associations were used by the protesters to convey messages about their identity, values, and ideas. Stopping at several examples, I reflect on the activists&apos; repertoire of actions in which the movement sought to disrupt and reformulate the dominant practice of the official narrative of the Great Patriotic War, which is central to the legacy in the symbolic canon of the contemporary Belarusian regime. The memory of the Great Patriotic War and the founding myth of the partisan republic, which for many years were the exclusive domain of the neo-Soviet identity, were transformed during the protests into a potent symbolic and rhetorical arsenal for mobilizing opponents of the regime.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Cargo: Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology

ISSN

1212-4923

e-ISSN

2336-1956

Svazek periodika

21

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

49

Strana od-do

5-53

Kód UT WoS článku

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