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- Title
Renaming and Reclaiming Urban Spaces in Ukraine: The Perspective of Internally Displaced People.
- Authors
Lazarenko, Valeria
- Abstract
For more than six years, Ukrainian society has been constantly searching for ideas as to how to write a new "national biography." In a society divided by armed conflict, the so-called decommunization process is considered to be an idea capable of uniting a nation. This process started back in 2015, with the passing of a specific law that required not only the deconstruction of Soviet-time monuments in public spaces, but also a huge decommunization of place names. The article will explore the main practices of place (re-)naming during the different stages of the decommunization (but not de-ideologization) of spaces, as well as describing the problems that may emerge in society as a result of a rapid transition from one narrative to another. Based on a case study of spatial identities of internally displaced people, I am going to answer the question of how people perceive renamed spaces, and how they reclaim and re-appropriate these spaces in the midst of an identity crisis.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; PUBLIC spaces; POSTCOMMUNISM; DECOMMUNIZATION; INTERNALLY displaced persons
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2022, Vol 50, Issue 3, p430
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/nps.2021.26