Popular and Scholarly Primordialism: The Politics of Ukrainian History during Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics Pub Date : 2022-10-13 DOI:10.2478/jnmlp-2022-0008

Alexander Maxwell

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Abstract

Abstract While nationalism theorists have mostly rejected primordialism, politicians and the wider public typically have a primordialist and essentialist understanding of national history. On the eve of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin invoked several primordialist tropes so as to justify military action, which is unsurprising in a politician. Yet Western scholars criticizing Putin's historical narratives in newspaper editorials or in scholarly talks posted to YouTube only rarely suggest modernist or social constructivist historical narratives. Several posit counter-primordialisms instead. Primordialism, then, enjoys more support than is widely realized, even among scholars who ought to be familiar with its problems. Meanwhile modernist theorists of nationalism, however popular among nationalism theorists, require more vigorous promotion in academic circles.

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大众与学术的原始主义:俄罗斯2022年入侵乌克兰期间的乌克兰历史政治

虽然民族主义理论家大多反对原始主义，但政治家和广大公众对民族历史的理解通常是原始主义和本质主义的。在俄罗斯2022年入侵乌克兰前夕，弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)援引了几个原始主义的比喻，为军事行动辩护，这在政治家身上并不奇怪。然而，西方学者在报纸社论或发布在YouTube上的学术演讲中批评普京的历史叙事，却很少提到现代主义或社会建构主义的历史叙事。相反，有几个假定了反原始主义。因此，原始论得到的支持比人们普遍认识到的要多，甚至在那些应该熟悉原始论问题的学者中也是如此。与此同时，现代主义的民族主义理论虽然在民族主义理论家中颇受欢迎，但在学术界仍需大力推广。

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Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics Arts and Humanities-History

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期刊介绍： Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics is a peer-reviewed journal published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Charles University. It is committed to exploring divergent scholarly opinions, research and theories of current international academic experts, and is a forum for discussion and hopes to encourage free-thinking and debate among academics, young researchers and professionals over issues of importance to the politics of identity and memory as well as the political dimensions of language policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. The journal is indexed with and included in Google Scholar, EBSCO, CEEOL and SCOPUS. We encourage research articles that employ qualitative or quantitative methodologies as well as empirical historical analyses regarding, but not limited to, the following issues: -Trends in nationalist development, whether historical or contemporary -Policies regarding national and international institutions of memory as well as investigations into the creation and/or dissemination of cultural memory -The implementation and political repercussions of language policies in various regional and global contexts -The formation, cohesion and perseverance of national or regional identity along with the relationships between minority and majority populations -The role ethnicity plays in nationalism and national identity -How the issue of victimhood contributes to national or regional self-perception -Priority is given to issues pertaining to the 20th and 21st century political developments While our focus is on empirical articles, our scope remains open to exceptional theoretical works (especially if they incorporate empirical research), book reviews and translations.