Narrative Templates of Post-Soviet Identity in Belarus

• Authors: Natalia Mamul
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based 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.

Keywords

EN

Collective identity; biographical narrative interviews; Belarus; negative identity; pro-democratic; narrative

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 166
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 229-250

Dates

published

2009-06-30

Contributors

author

Natalia Mamul

• Higher Vocational School in Skierniewice.