VICTIMEUR · The New Politics of Victimhood in Post-Socialist Europe
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2021-10-01 → 2024-09-30
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 269 003 €
- Участници
- 2
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- MSCA-IF
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Накратко на български
Политическото използване на чувството за историческа жертва в постсоциалистическа Европа, например чрез препратки към минали несправедливости, е в центъра на анализа. Това помага да се разбере как подобни разкази оправдават определени политически решения и разделят обществото.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
The New Politics of Victimhood in Post-Socialist Europe
Main contributions and findings Notions of historical and collective victimhood has become one of the main battlefields for populists. Imagery of historical and war suffering, grievances directed at the ‘West’ to frequent references to past oppression and injustice has increasingly been deployed by right-wing populists in eastern Europe relying on an augmented (and exclusivist) sense of national pride. Although ideational and historical sources of populist discourse in the region have often been overlooked by analysts stressing the primacy of socioeconomic drivers of populism, this project enquires into the ideational underpinnings of populism in the region. It studies both the ideational content of populism vis-à-vis various forms of victimhood as well as its social base. This project thus asks: How has victimhood featured in politics and political competition in postcommunist Europe in the past two decades? How and why has it featured in the populist rulebook? And how has it resonated? This project answered these questions by focusing on political and historical constructions of victimhood in the post-communist and post-conflict Europe where sources of historical and conflict-related victimhood are ample and diverse. There, narratives of victimhood have been increasingly applied to justify (often illiberal) policies (e.g. asylum), demark power relations (e.g. marginalize political rivals) and legitimize political decisions (e.g. in foreign policy). Starting with providing a wider conceptualization of victimhood and its role in populism, the project offers a deeper understanding of the various roles of victimhood – as a unifying bond as well as a polarizing identity definer. It then studies how victimhood featured in politics and political competition of this region, specifically looking at the Czech Republic, Hungary and Serbia, in the past 20 years and introduces a novel understanding of social and political victimhood linked to collective grievances that foreground identities and a sense of ontological security. This project has three key specific research objectives: 1. To conceptualize victimhood narratives, notions and understandings. 2. To empirically study how victimhood plays out in politics of postcommunist Europe. 3. To conduct cross-case comparison to tease out generalizations about inferences in country cases.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
VICTIMEUR takes a new and original approach to studying the political uses of constructions of victimhood in selected post-socialist countries of Central and South East Europe: Albania, the Czech Republic (also Czechia) and Serbia. Victimhood - as a sense of being victimized by crimes and (historical) injustice - has proliferated in the political discourse across post-socialist Europe in the past two decades. Political leaders, civil society and the public have used collective and individual victimhood to claim rights, new policies, and legitimize new political orders. VICTIMEUR grapples with the question: How has victimhood featured in politics and political competition of post-socialist Europe in the past two decades? Using three post-socialist, it studies different meanings, notions and constructions of victimhood and how they have featured in key moments of political contestation such as power transitions. The project breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by combining transitional justice, memory and identity studies with comparative politics to shed new light on how victimhood politics has featured in contemporary post-socialist Europe, with the ambition to contribute to the current worldwide debates about the role victimhood in politics. It introduces a novel understanding of social and political victimhood that clearly manifests itself in the contemporary post-socialist Europe and is linked to a long list of collective and individual grievances that go beyond demands and identities of direct victims. Such sources of victimhood vary from memories of historical injustice related to World War II, East-West divisions, socialist political persecution, war suffering, and a recent sense of marginalization by market economies. Informed by the existing research in cultural studies, history, politics and sociology, and collecting new fresh data, this project significantly advances our understanding of the uses of memory and identity in contemporary politics.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaКоординаторИталия
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL · Chapel HillСъединени щати
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз