Re-enacting “Cossack roots
” Embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Popov (0000-0002-1337-8016, Aston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2017.1354363 |
| OpenAlex | W2765637616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article draws upon ethnographic research which was conducted among young Cossacks (members of officially registered and informal Cossack clubs) in southern Russia. It presents young people’s participation in the Cossack “nativism” as a physical and material mode of socialization into the mnemonic community. The research puts forward an argument that such corporal and sensorial experiences is effective in recruiting some young members to the Cossack movement. At the same time, the performative character of neo-Cossack identity destabilizes contemporary Cossacks’ claims of authenticity related to the status of the legitimate heirs of historical Cossackdom. At the more general level of discussion this paper juxtaposes bodily activities, social memory, and revivalist discourses
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Collective memory · Ethnography · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Soviet and Russian History
How Societies Remember
Research Practice for Cultural Studies
Uncertain Transition
Cossack identity in the new Russia
Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity
The politics of identity in a Russian borderland province
Identity formation in the Russian Cossack revival
Universalising Cossack Particularism
Ethnic Discrimination and the Discourse of “Indigenization”
The Kuban’ Cossack Revival (1989–1993)
Uninvited guests in the communal apartment
Performing Russia
Out of the shadows of history and memory
Introduction
Testing constructivism
The three colors of Novorossiya, or the Russian nationalist mythmaking of the Ukrainian crisis
The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism
Embodiment, Collective Memory and Time
Memories in Motion
Long-Term Memory Of Extreme Events
Techniques of the body∗
Generations of Trauma
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |