Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: On the 24 th of February 2022, Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Federation in a televised speech announcing a 'special military operation' against Ukraine.Putin castigated the West as an 'Empire of Lies' and drew upon Russian history and cultural heritage to justify his invasion of Eastern Ukraine.This article investigates how cultural memory has been manipulated in the war in Ukraine, and in the previously occupied Crimea.We argue that cultural heritage, memory, and museum collections have been removed and/or repurposed to legitimise the current invasion by linking it to a grand narrative of Russian power and the recovery of ancestral lands.We present case studies from the annexation of Crimea (2014), the war in Ukraine (2022 -), and make a brief comparison with the armed conflict in Syria (2011 -2022).
Authors: Nour A. Munawar, James Symonds
Institutions: Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Qatar National Library
OpenAlex ID: W4382314967