Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe
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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.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Review of International Studies |
Vol/bind | 47 |
Udgave nummer | 4 |
Sider (fra-til) | 489-507 |
Antal sider | 19 |
ISSN | 0260-2105 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - okt. 2021 |
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