The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine
Daria Khlevniuk,
GN,
Boris Noordenbos
Abstract:This paper seeks to enhance memory studies' conceptual toolkit by reconsidering established perspectives on “memory politics.” The paper theorizes various modes of temporal connectivity cultivated through politicized references to a shared past. Our empirical case is focused on a collection of roughly 5.000 recent articles about the war in Ukraine from major Russian state‐aligned news outlets. We analyze and typologize the narrative and rhetorical gestures by which these articles make the Soviet “Great Patriot… Show more
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