Echo of 1989? Protest Imaginaries and Identity Dilemmas in Belarus
Echo of 1989? Protest Imaginaries and Identity Dilemmas in Belarus
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1989年的回声？
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2021
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Nelly Bekus
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白俄罗斯2020年的革命经常被描述为新的1989年，毫无疑问，白俄罗斯抗议活动的解放诉求与维持1989年革命的诉求相似。但是，建立民主制度-白俄罗斯抗议者的主要愿望-是否会遵循其他东欧和中欧国家明显的自由化和西方化的脚本？后卢卡申科时代的白俄罗斯的自决是否会效仿其他东欧和后苏联国家的模式，即民族中心主义的民族认同和对共产主义受害者的记忆成为东欧后共产主义的独特标志？本文探讨了抗议剧目的象征性维度，展示了抗议活动如何重新安排自1994年以来形成白俄罗斯集体记忆和身份话语基础的历史和文化参考体系。它揭示了参与争论的各种各样的行为者如何激活了文化和政治符号和思想的重新意义化过程，并导致形成一种混合的社会文化想象，这种想象将以前不相关和相互竞争的项目和意识形态整合在一起。
The revolution of 2020 in Belarus has often been described as a new 1989 and there is no doubt that the emancipatory appeal of the Belarusian protests is similar to the one that sustained the 1989 revolutions. But will building the democratic system—the major aspiration of the Belarusian protesters—follow the scripts of liberalization and westernization in evidence in other eastern and central European countries? Will self-determination in post-Lukashenka Belarus follow a scenario modelled on the patterns adopted by other east European and post-Soviet states, where ethnocentric national identities and the memory of victims of communism became distinctive markers of east European post-communism? Examining the symbolic dimension of the protest repertoire, this article demonstrates how the protests re-arranged the system of historical and cultural references that shaped the foundation of Belarusian collective memory and identity discourses since 1994. It reveals how a broad variety of actors engaged in contention activated a process of re-signification of cultural and political symbols and ideas and led to the formation of a blended socio-cultural imaginary, which integrates previously disconnected and competing projects and ideologies.