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Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power
Self-Imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation
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2013
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Twenty years ago Ukraine gained its independence and started on a path towards a free market economy and democratic governance. After four successive presidents and the Orange Revolution, the question of exactly which national model Ukraine should embrace remains an open question. Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power provides a comprehensive outlook on Ukraine as it is presented through the views of intellectual and political elites. Based on extensive field work in Ukraine, Karina V. Korostelina describes the complex process of nation building. Despite the prevailing belief in a divide between two parts of Ukraine and an overwhelming variety of incompatible visions, Korostelina reveals seven prevailing conceptual models of Ukraine and five dominant narratives of national identity.
Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power analyzes the practice of national self-imagination. Karina V. Korostelina puts forward a structural-functional model of national narratives that describes three major components, dualistic order, mythic narratives, and normative order, and two main functions of national narratives, the development of the meaning of national identity and the legitimization of power. Korostelina describes the differences and conflicting elements of the national narratives that constitute the contested arena of nation-building in Ukraine.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8393-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8394-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
259
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1 Structure and Functions of National Narrative No access Pages 15 - 66
2 The Context of Ukraine No access Pages 67 - 116
3 National Narratives of Ukrainian Elite No access Pages 117 - 174
4 Impact from Outside: Ukraine in Narratives of International Donors and Experts No access Pages 175 - 196
5 The Image of a Ukrainian Future No access Pages 197 - 210
6 Conclusion: Production of Meaning in National Narratives in Ukraine No access Pages 211 - 244
