Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv

Narratives, Identity, and Power

von

Narvselius, Eleonora

BuchGebunden

Englisch

Lexington Bookserschienen am05.04.2012

Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia´s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L´viv is an especially apt site for investigation of the nexus intelligentsia-nation not only in the Ukrainian, but in the East-Central European context. This borderline city, while not being a remarkable industrial, administrative or political centre, has acquired the reputation of a site of unique cultural production and a principal center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement throughout the twentieth century. Here the popular conceptions of intelligentsia have been elaborated at the intersection of various cultural, historical and political traditions. This study addresses Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia and intellectuals in L´viv both as a discursive phenomenon and as the social category of cultural producers who in the new circumstances both articulate the nation and are articulated by it.mehr

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KlappentextIntelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia´s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L´viv is an especially apt site for investigation of the nexus intelligentsia-nation not only in the Ukrainian, but in the East-Central European context. This borderline city, while not being a remarkable industrial, administrative or political centre, has acquired the reputation of a site of unique cultural production and a principal center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement throughout the twentieth century. Here the popular conceptions of intelligentsia have been elaborated at the intersection of various cultural, historical and political traditions. This study addresses Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia and intellectuals in L´viv both as a discursive phenomenon and as the social category of cultural producers who in the new circumstances both articulate the nation and are articulated by it.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-7391-6468-6

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Lexington Books

Erscheinungsjahr2012

Erscheinungsdatum05.04.2012

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 30 mm

Gewicht850 g

Artikel-Nr.17420305

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionChapter 1: Approaching IntelligentsiaChapter 2: Intelligentsia and Problematics of Culture, Nation, Class and PowerChapter 3: A Historical Stage for Intelligentsia´s Projects: Polyethnic, Multicultural, Nationalist Daily L´viv Chapter 4: Incarnations of the Protagonist: Old Intelligentsia-New Intelligentsia-Pseudo-Intelligentsia-Non-IntelligentsiaChapter 5: Between Kham and Knight: The L´viv Intelligentsia´s Others and Alter EgosChapter 6: Intelligentsia´s Spaces in L´vivChapter 7: Empowering Projects of the L´viv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule: Narratives about L´viv´s Centrality and Peripherality Chapter 8: Empowering Projects of the L´viv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule: Narratives about (Be)longing, Ambiguity and Cultural ColonizationChapter 9: Opening a Pandora´s Box: Collective Memories and Blank Spots of the Ukrainian Past in Historical Narratives of the L´viv IntelligentsiaConclusions: Intelligentsia in L´viv: The Power of Location and Narrationmehr

Kritik

This book makes an important contribution to studies of post-Soviet intellectuals. It draws on extensive interviews and ethnographic observation conducted in L'viv, the Western Ukrainian city that provided the foundation for the Ukrainian national independence movement. Narvselius develops a perceptive account of the practices and discourses through which intellectuals in this city imagine and articulate alternatives to Soviet institutions. The author explores with great subtlety the narratives of ethics, culture, and public space through which intellectuals developed a deep sense of community after the region was annexed to Soviet Ukraine and analyzes how they make sense of the uncertainties they now face in post-Soviet Ukraine. -- Alexandra Hrycak, associate professor of sociology, Reed Collegemehr