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Struggle over identity : the official and the alternative "Belarusianness" / Nelly Bekus.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bekus, Nelly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Belarusian.
- Nationalism--Belarus.
- Nationalism.
- Political culture--Belarus.
- Political culture.
- Democratization--Belarus.
- Democratization.
- Popular culture--Belarus.
- Popular culture.
- Social change--Belarus.
- Social change.
- Post-communism--Social aspects--Belarus.
- Post-communism.
- Belarus--Social conditions.
- Belarus.
- Belarus--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Text file
- Summary:
- Describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the nation - institutionalized and reified by the numerous civic rituals and social practices under the auspices of the actual Belarusian state.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Nation in theory
- Nation-formation strategies in contemporary nation-studies
- State and nation
- Nationalism, capitalism, liberalism : the East European perspective
- Nationalism and socialism : the Soviet case
- pt. 2. The rise and development of the Belarusian national idea
- The first Belarusian nationalist movement : between national and class interests
- Byelorussian republic within the Soviet state
- Post-Soviet conditions for independence
- pt. 3. Belarusian post-communism
- The election of the first Belarusian president as a mirror of Belarusian preferences
- "Labels" of the Belarusian regime
- "Triple transformation" and Belarus
- Prerequisites of democratization and authoritarianism in Belarus
- pt. 4. Arguments and paradoxes of weak Belarusian identity
- Belarus as an example of national and democratic failure
- The Russian factor in Belarusian self-perception
- The paradox of "national pride"
- Paradoxes of political and linguistic Russification
- Lack of religious basis for national unity
- pt. 5. The struggle over identity
- Two ideas of "Belarusianness" in place of "sole" national idea
- Belarusian-specific nature of the public sphere : invisible wall
- Belarusian tradition : the alternative and official historical narrations
- Political discourses of alternative Belarusianness
- National ideology of the Belarusian state as a political articulation of official Belarusianness
- pt. 6. Cultural manifestation versus social reification
- Two Belarusian approaches to the politics of identity
- "The Belarusian globe" : an encyclopedia of what existed before communism
- Belarusian National Film Misterium occupation : distancing themselves from Soviets and Russians
- Free theater : alternative Belarusianness on the stage
- Independent rock music : critical reflection and protest
- Medieval reenactors : a manifestation of Belarus's European history
- The official politics of identity : social reification strategy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-72210-5
- 9786155211843
- 978-615-5211-84-3
- 978-6-15521-184-3
- 615-5211-84-1
- 2-8218-1519-0
- 1-283-24838-7
- 9786613248381
- 1-4416-5814-9
- 9781003722106
- OCLC:
- 649837711
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09341 hdl
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