All the different routes we walk and the knowledge they can’t take away from us.’
Participation, transformation, and revolution in Belarus 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21867017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Evans (0000-0003-1168-4121, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2000-7426 • E-ISSN: 2000-7426 |
| Publisher | Linköping University Electronic Press (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.5955 |
| OpenAlex | W7116661871 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
The falsification of the results of the 2020 presidential election in Belarus produced a movement of peaceful civil disobedience and resistance. Civil activism furthered radical change embracing broad democratic participation and created new political subjects. Biographical interviews conducted with Aliaksandra, a young Belarusian adult, look at the learning situation of the individual and open a space in which the search for individual meaning-making in times of biographical transition can be heard. The interviews showcase interactions in time and space between an individual and her wider out-of-frame interactions, and on the effects of social and political conflict and crisis on her biographical narrative. The concept of ‘biographicity’ is employed to describe the dynamics of ongoing biographical learning, and Raymond Williams’ understanding of the processes of social transformation provides the theoretical backdrop of the transformation of lived lives in this paper
Civil disobedience · Civil society · Democracy · Political activism · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Social movement · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Narrative in the study of migrants
Talking Voices
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Learning from the whirlpools of existence
Constructing Panic
Qualitative Research Interviewing
Crossing borders
Ideological Recycling of the Socialist Legacy. Reading Townscapes of Minsk and Astana
Ethnic identity in post-Soviet Belarus
Changing Belarus
You are what you read
Autobiographic Narratives as Data in Applied Linguistics
"Tear Down These Prison Walls!" Verses of Defiance in the Belarusian Revolution
How Feminist is the Belarusian Revolution? Female Agency and Participation in the 2020 Post-Election Protests
Echo of 1989? Protest Imaginaries and Identity Dilemmas in Belarus
Introduction
A postscript
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |