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Identity and Power in Ukraine: the fight in a young nation
Please join S-CAR in recognizing Karina Korostelina's new book Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power: Self-Imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation
Tuesday, February 18th
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Metropolitan Building Conference Room 5183
New book of Karina V. Korostelina Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power provides a comprehensive outlook on Ukraine as it is presented through the views of intellectual and political elites. Based on extensive field work in Ukraine, Karina V. Korostelina describes the complex process of nation building, revealing seven prevailing conceptual models of Ukraine and five dominant narratives of national identity. Korostelina describes the differences and conflicting elements of the national narratives that constitute the contested arena of nation-building in Ukraine and explain the current violence in this country.