TY  - GEN
AU  - Bekus,Nelly
TI  - Struggle over Identity: The Official and the Alternative “Belarusianness” 
SN  - 978-615-5211-84-3
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Budapest
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - Political Science Public Admin. & Development
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Belarus
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - post-communism
KW  - political ideologies
KW  - socialism
KW  - nationalism
KW  - capitalism
KW  - liberalism
KW  - democracy
KW  - identity
KW  - Belarusian regime
KW  - authoritarianism
KW  - bolshevism
KW  - linguistic russification
N1  - Ebook
N2  -  Rejecting the cliché about “weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism,” Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness—the official and the alternative one—which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different interpretation of the interconnection between the democratization and nationalization of Belarusian society. The book describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the “nation” institutionalized and reified by the numerous civic rituals and social practices under the auspices of the actual Belarusian state. Comparing the two concepts not only provides understanding of the logic that dominates Belarusian society’s self-description models, but also enables us to evaluate the chances of alternative Belarusianness to win this unequal struggle over identity. 
UR  - https://books.openedition.org/ceup/581
ER  -