B1 - Memory Politics in Russia and Ukraine, A. V. Wendland

B1 - Memory Politics, Identity Economics and Integration Concepts as constitutive Factors in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis Zone (1945-2015)

Key Questions

What role do remembrance controversies in the entangled complexity of Ukrainian-Russian history play in the formulation of today’s Ukrainian-Russian conflict region?

What questions and concepts lie at the core of these controversies?

How do political mobilisations utilise historical references in the Ukraine-Russia conflict?

Objectives

Identification of historical patterns of argumentation and key concepts of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Uncovering the mechanisms of political mobilisation and political legitimisation via memory politics.

Empirical evaluation of working hypotheses on the scope, concepts, correlations and historical locations of the dimension of memory politics in the current conflict.

Emphasis on Ukraine as the venue for imperial/post-imperial historical controversies rather than a narrow focus on the perspective of the (post-) imperial centre.

Developing theories on possible approaches to conflict resolution in the field of memory politics

Project Heads

Director: Dr. Anna Veronika Wendland

Doctoral Candidate: Iryna Lysenko, M.A.