Graduate Student, BEEGS
Södertörn University, School of Gender Studies, Culture and History
Stockholm University, Department of History
About
I am currently working on my PhD thesis. The preliminary title of the dissertation is “Between the hammer of remembering and the anvil of forgetting: Representations of History in Ukraine since 1991.” I focus on the representations of history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army and their activities during the World War II. While the past of these organisations was silenced and misrepresented under the Soviet rule, there are traces of new mythologizations nowadays. I analyze state-sanctioned as well as non-state-sanctioned representations of a given episode of history. Key questions in my dissertation are: Which and whose memories are thematised and promoted as ‘national’? What meaning is ascribed to national identity through framing of national historical narrative? What do the new ways of remembering tell us about national identity formation? My main interest is focused on monuments. On the one hand, I scrutinize the process of production of the representations in monuments, I analyse the discussion and debates around the monuments, on the other hand, I focus on perceptions of these monuments and look on the ways these monuments are "consumed", perceived and interpreted.
You are welcome to visit my blog which was planned to shadow my PhD writing but became a platform for some random thoughts about memory and my project: http://memory-matters.blogspot.com/
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