NARRATIVE TEMPLATES OF POST-SOVIET IDENTITY IN BELARUS

• Authors: Mamul Natalia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

ABased on the analysis of 30 biographical narrative interviews with male and female residents of post-Soviet Belarus, the following four schematic narrative templates of Belarusian collective identity have been identified: the pro-Russian narrative, victimized negative identity, Belarusian nationalist scheme and pro-democratic narrative template. The focus of the article is on the interpretive frame of 'collectivization of innocence' as a foundation for the victimized negative ethnic identity and the pro-democratic narrative template underpinning a civil polity project. Excerpts of the interviews exhibiting the conflicting templates have been analyzed as illustrative examples.

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 2(166)
• Pages: 229-249
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mamul Natalia

• Natalia Mamul, Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa w Skierniewicach, Wydzial Socjologii i Filologii, ul. Batorego 64C, 96-100 Skierniewice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068423