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dc.contributor.authorBekus, N
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-25T14:13:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-06
dc.description.abstractThe article contributes to the theorisation of collective memory involved in building the international representations of a nation, and examines how strategic responses to the legacy of the totalitarian past have been deployed to shape the image of the nations’ remembering agency via the connections with other actors within the global memory field. Drawing on the Bourdieusian concept of symbolic capital, the article develops a concept of the symbolic capital of mnemonics in order to uncover the role of memory in enhancing international standing and prestige, a crucial preoccupation for semi-peripheral states emerging on the global arena. While recent scholarship on traumatic memory as a category of social analysis underlines the role of memory in bolstering the collective identity of nations, the article demonstrates how memories of the communist past provide a platform for connections between nation-states through shared meta-narratives. Through an empirical case study that uses an ethnographic approach, participant observation and analysis of media accounts, the article examines how the official commemorative practices of Kazakhstan have served to realign the country’s mnemonic agenda with that of the global memory of communism and to redeploy the symbolic capital gained through a shared mnemonics to reassert its legitimacy both abroad and at home.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipLeverhulme Trusten_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 6 January 2021en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11186-020-09425-x
dc.identifier.grantnumberRL-2012-053en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/124919
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSpringeren_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 6 January 2022 in compliance with publisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021en_GB
dc.subjectInternationalismen_GB
dc.subjectKazakhstanen_GB
dc.subjectMemory of communismen_GB
dc.subjectRecognitionen_GB
dc.subjectSymbolic capitalen_GB
dc.titleSymbolic Capital of the Memory of communism. The quest for international recognition in Kazakhstanen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2021-02-25T14:13:54Z
dc.identifier.issn0304-2421
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalTheory and Societyen_GB
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dcterms.dateAccepted2020-11-29
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-01-06
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2021-02-25T14:11:58Z
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