Въображаемо строителство на въображаема общност: политики на идентичността в Украйна
Imaginary construction ofan imaginary community: Politics of identity in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: This paper problematizes the contradictory discourse of national identity in post- Soviet Ukraine which is framed by two essential factors: on the one hand institutional isomorphism of Soviet structures, on the other hand heterogeneity of the symbolic space, plurality of memories and narratives. We analyse the model of “strategic relativism” as an informal government strategy and demonstrate its structural weaknesses, which contributed to full-scale identity politicization in the “Orange Revolution” and the subsequent attempts to intensify identity politics. The consequences of these successions of events are interpreted as decisive for future attempts to instrumentalising identity categories in view of the high political costs of “constructing” identity politics and effi ciency of “electoral” identity politics

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