Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power: Self-Imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation - Karina Korestelina
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Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power:
Self-Imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation
Part of IERES’s Petrach Program on Ukraine
with
Karina V. Korostelina
Associate Professor, George Mason University
Thursday, March 6, 2014
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Voesar Conference Room
1957 E Street NW, Suite 412
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Karina V. Korostelina’s new book, Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power, provides a comprehensive outlook on Ukraine through the views of intellectual and political elites. Based on extensive field work in Ukraine, 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 explains the current violence in the country.
Karina V. Korostelina is associate professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution,
George Mason University, and director of the Program on History, Memory and Conflict. She is a
leading expert on identity-based conflicts, peace culture, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Her
recent books include: International Insult: How Offence Contributes to Conflict (forthcoming), History
Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace (2013), Why They Die? (2012), Social Identity and Conflict (2007) and Structure and Dynamics of Social Identity (2003).
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