Chapter 5 Memory Politics as an Instrument of Annexation: The Case of Illegal Annexation of Crimean Republic by Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Keyword(s):  
Memory Politics

Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Taras Kuzio
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Irish History ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Post Colonialism

This is the first comparative article to investigate commonalities in Ukrainian and Irish history, identity, and politics. The article analyzes the broader Ukrainian and Irish experience with Russia/Soviet Union in the first and Britain in the second instance, as well as the regional similarities in conflicts in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine and the six of the nine counties of Ulster that are Northern Ireland. The similarity in the Ukrainian and Irish experiences of treatment under Russian/Soviet and British rule is starker when we take into account the large differences in the sizes of their territories, populations, and economies. The five factors that are used for this comparative study include post-colonialism and the “Other,” religion, history and memory politics, language and identities, and attitudes toward Europe.

Gender, narrative and affect: Top-down politics of commemoration in post-genocide Rwanda

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Present State ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Top Down ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Key Sites

This article takes an interest in gendered memory politics and addresses the dearth of research on gender and commemoration in relation to the genocide in Rwanda. It analyses elite-produced gendered narratives at key sites of commemoration and investigates their affective role in constituting the post-genocide Rwandan state. Through a methodological approach of ‘the situated gaze’, three central observations are made. First, women are mourned as a specific category of rape victims and mothers. Second, women’s experiences of sexual violence are at the same time censored and de-individualized. Third, no other experiences, beyond being a victim, are taken into account. The article finds that the top-down affective memory politics circumscribes the role women played during and after the genocide, and restricts their agency within the present state project of ‘national unity and reconciliation’.

Memory politics in contemporary Ukraine: Reflections from the postcolonial perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa ◽  
Yuliya Yurchuk
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Anticolonial Nationalism ◽  
Western Media

Reporting from the events of the so-called ‘Euro-revolution’ in Ukraine 2013–2014, the Western media were prompt to point out the excessive use of national symbols, including those connected with the memory of the Ukrainian nationalist organizations ‘OUN’ and ‘UPA’, which for some periods of time had cooperated with Nazi Germany and were involved in the killing of civilians. By using a postcolonial perspective, the article aims to explain this phenomenon, as well as a number of other elements of the politics of memory in contemporary Ukraine, such as the so-called ‘Decommunization Laws’ adopted in 2015. Special attention is paid to Frantz Fanon’s idea of ‘anticolonial nationalism’ and Homi Bhabha’s idea of hybridity and their realization in Ukraine.

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