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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs ...
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
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Shuvalova, Iryna. - : University of Cambridge, 2020. : Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, 2020. : St. John's College, 2020
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This thesis examines identity work in the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It takes as its object of study a corpus of songs about the conflict representative of the key political and military actors involved: Ukraine, Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. Songs are examined using multimodal discourse analysis, with both their visual and musical elements considered, but with a special emphasis placed on the song lyrics. In the thesis, I begin with examining the songs at the level of ‘syntax’ – paying particular attention to how identity work is mobilized through history, language, and different approaches to constructing the image of the enemy – before tracing the coming together of these individual syntaxes into the prevalent ‘grammars’ of othering. I posit that two competing strategies or grammars are actively shaping identities of groups and individuals in the War in Donbas: circumstantialist othering, which distinguishes between friends and enemies on the basis of the specific conditions that prompted the division, and essentialist othering, which implies the existence of an inherent trait that unavoidably pits one group against the other. I contend that these two grammars of othering reflect two different world-view paradigms persisting in the communities that circulate the songs. I argue that the circumstantialist approach – as of early 2019, most commonly found in Ukrainian war songs – is aligned with a vision of complete disengagement as the desired outcome of the war. By contrast, the essentialist approach – now most commonly found in songs from Russia and the self-proclaimed republics – is associated with a messianic vision of the war, aiming for cultural and territorial expansion as a means of fulfilling a historical mission. ; The Gates Cambridge Trust
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contemporary ukraine; dnr; donbas; donbass; donetsk people's republic; eurasian studies; grammars of othering; identity; identity work; lnr; lugansk people's republic; luhans'k people's republic; luhansk people's republic; multilingualism; novorosiia; novorossiia; othering; popular culture; popular music; popular songs; postcolonial studies; postcolonialism; postsocialism; postsocialist studies; postsoviet studies; propaganda; russian culture; russian music; russian popular culture; russian popular music; russo-ukrainian war; selfing; slavic studies; slavonic studies; ukraine; ukrainian culture; ukrainian music; ukrainian popular culture; ukrainian popular music; ukrainian studies; war in donbas; war in donbass; war in the donbas; war in the donbass; war songs
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URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.51373
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/304292
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“What is the best language for Eastern Europe?” Lingua receptiva as a new approach in Slavic intercommunication research
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Steciąg, Magdalena. - : University of Maribor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2020
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Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktische Ansätze in den Polnisch-, Russisch-, und Tschechischkursen des Sprachenzentrums der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ...
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Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktische Ansätze in den Polnisch-, Russisch-, und Tschechischkursen des Sprachenzentrums der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Towards a Multilingual Future: The Ecology of Language at a University in Eastern Ukraine
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In: Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations (2013)
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