The role of the WW1 commemorations in the national mythmaking

拟议研究的目的是通过形成，加强或改造民族神话来实现政治目的，并在20世纪末和21世纪初的欧洲可以追溯到第一次世界大战的纪念活动。第一次世界大战是非洲大陆历史上一个戏剧性和政治性的事件，仍然为后来的冲突和国家认同的形成提供了纪念的跳板。百年纪念活动感动了西欧的人群，而东欧的庆祝活动也很有意义。本文旨在揭示传统西欧民主国家和后社会主义国家在一战遗产中所形成的民族神话的差异。虽然纪念活动融入了现有的民族神话，但它们也可以发展和改造这些神话，因为战争的创伤经历加剧了民族主义情绪，这反过来又鼓励了神话的创造。因此，战争纪念活动看似无害、悲伤或庄严的做法有可能被极端主义团体滥用。比较的例子来自英国、法国、捷克共和国和匈牙利，因为它们代表了同一场战争的四个不同角度。这项研究将对遗产地采用跨学科的方法：话语和内容分析、视觉方法、地理信息学和人种学研究。

The aim of the proposed research is to access the ways in which the commemoration of the WWI was used by forming, strengthening or transformingthe national myths for political aims and can be traced in the late 20th and early 21st-centuries Europe. WWI was a dramatic and politically definingevent in the history of the continent that still provides a springboard for the commemoration of later conflicts and shaping of national identities. The events of the centenary moved crowds in Western Europe, while the moderated celebration in Eastern Europe is also meaningful. The dissertation aims to reveal the differences of the national mythmaking derived from the WWI heritage in the traditional Western European democracies and the post-socialist countries. While the commemorations are integrated into existing national myths, they can also develop and transform these myths, since the traumatic experience of a war intensifies the nationalist feelings, which in turn encourages mythmaking. Therefore, the seemingly harmless, mournful or majestic practices of war commemorations carry the possibility of a misuse by the groups with extremist viewpoints. The examples of the comparison would come from the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic and Hungary, since they represent four different angles of the same war. The research will apply an interdisciplinary methodology on the heritage sites: discourse and content analyses, visual methods, geoinformatics and ethnographic research.