التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Narrating war through visual language: Commemorative activity of ordinary people in Central Ukraine (Poltava oblast) in 2014–2021. |
| المؤلفون: |
Glew, Anna |
| المصدر: |
Journal of European Studies; Dec2023, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p392-412, 21p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-, COLLECTIVE memory, WAR, UKRAINIAN history |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UKRAINE, RUSSIA |
| مستخلص: |
This article examines how ordinary people in the Poltava oblast (Central Ukraine) commemorated the Russia-Ukraine war during the 2014–2021 period (prior to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022). Focusing on physical commemorative objects constructed by ordinary people, this article investigates the commemorative activity of ordinary people in Central Ukraine who are 'activated' to carry out commemorative work by this turbulent and emotionally charged event in Ukraine's recent history and seek to project their individual, private memories into the public arena. This article's central argument is that ordinary people in Central Ukraine actively exercise their agency in the area of commemoration, to ensure the memory of the Russia-Ukraine war is present in the commemorative landscape, playing an important role in public meaning-making. Thus, by utilising different types of visual language, ordinary people narrate soldiers' sacrifice in the name of the nation, presenting Ukraine's response to Russia's aggression as a righteous and noble struggle. Through linking this event to other periods of Ukraine's history, they create plotlines of Ukraine's centuries-long struggle for sovereignty and self-determination. Therefore, ordinary people contribute to the construction of narratives about history and the identity of the Ukrainian nation. This article is an empirical contribution to the body of knowledge on the commemorative activity of ordinary people as social memory actors, and it also contributes to the knowledge of how ongoing violent conflicts are commemorated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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