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Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe.
- Source :
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Review of International Studies . Oct2021, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p489-507. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This article theorises the nexus between mnemonical status anxiety and militant memory laws. Extending the understanding of status-seeking in international relations to the realm of historical memory, I argue that the quest for mnemonical recognition is a status struggle in an international social hierarchy of remembering constitutive events of the past. A typology of mnemopolitical status-seeking is presented on the example of Russia (mnemonical positionalism), Poland (mnemonical revisionism), and Ukraine (mnemonical self-emancipation). Memory laws provide a common instance of securing and/or improving a state's mnemonical standing in the relevant memory order. Drawing on the conceptual analogy of militant democracy, the article develops the notion militant memocracy, or the governance of historical memory through a dense network of prescribing and proscribing memory laws and policies. Similar to its militant democracy counterpart, militant memocracy is in danger of self-inflicted harm to the object of defence in the very effort to defend it: its precautionary and punitive measures resound rather than fix the state's mnemonical anxiety problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02602105
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Review of International Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153565120
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210521000140