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Russian Orthodox Church as the actor of modern politics of memory: the canonization discourse

Studia Humanitatis, 2018
On the basis of the analysis of various directions of canonization practices the article shows the transformation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the beginning of the 21st century into an active memory policy actor in Russia.
Batishev Roman Jurevich, Belyaev Evgenii Vladimirovich, Linchenko Andrei Aleksandrovich   +2 more
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Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
wiley   +1 more source

HISTORICAL MEMORY OF EASTERN UKRAINE RESIDENTS ABOUT SOVIET REPRESSION IN THE WESTERN REGIONS: CURRENT STATE OF HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PROBLEM

Problems of humanities. History, 2020
Summary. The purpose of the research is to determine the range of scientific works of domestic researchers in the most complete way which examines certain aspects of the historical memory of the inhabitants in Donetsk region about the Soviet repressions in the western regions of Ukraine.
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Symbols and Symbolic Structures in Novels About Wartime Children: “The Golden Cloud Stayed Over” by A. Pristavkin and “The Book Thief” by M. Zusak

Этническая культура
The article provides a comparative analysis of symbols and symbolic structures in the novels “The Book Thief” by the Australian writer M. Zusak and “The Golden Cloud” by the Soviet author A. Pristavkin.
Olesia A. Lazutkina, Daria A. Mashukova
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The Role of Mavka in the Articulation of Identity Under Conditions of War in Ukraine

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to examine Mavka, a mythological forest spirit that has become a dynamic figure of resistance against occupation in the Russian‐Ukrainian war. Drawing on textual and visual materials from the Zla Mavka Telegram channel, the analysis conceptualizes Mavka as a symbolic framework that integrates three different identities ...
Miriam Billig, Nadia Iermakov
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Buildings of Communism in the Mirror of Soviet Nostalgia / Великие стройки коммунизма в зеркале советской ностальгии

Индустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований
The article examines the evolution of the mythology of the great construction projects of communism in the context of nostalgia for the Soviet. The author shows the specifics of the formation of the mythology of great construction projects in the Soviet ...
Sophia Tikhonova / Софья Владимировна Тихонова
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
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Beyond the war: Essays on loss, resilience and Hope. Introduction to a “Ukrainian section”

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This short essay examines epistemic injustice within contemporary hierarchies of knowledge, and it argues for more insightful, sensuous, and grassroots forms of knowledge production “from the edges” to shine a light on the persistent inequality between ways of knowing and ways of (de)valuing different epistemologies.
Olena Sobolieva, Julia Buyskykh
wiley   +1 more source