Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe
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Militant memocracy in International Relations : Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe. / Mälksoo, Maria.
I: Review of International Studies, Bind 47, Nr. 4, 10.2021, s. 489-507.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Militant memocracy in International Relations
T2 - Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe
AU - Mälksoo, Maria
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - mnemonical status anxiety
KW - memory laws
KW - militant memocracy
KW - Russia
KW - Poland
KW - Ukraine
U2 - 10.1017/s0260210521000140
DO - 10.1017/s0260210521000140
M3 - Journal article
VL - 47
SP - 489
EP - 507
JO - Review of International Studies
JF - Review of International Studies
SN - 0260-2105
IS - 4
ER -
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