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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Review of International Studies |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 489-507 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISSN | 0260-2105 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2021 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - mnemonical status anxiety, memory laws, militant memocracy, Russia, Poland, Ukraine
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