{"title":"Ukraine is Europe? Complicating the concept of the ‘European’ in the wake of an urban protest","authors":"T. Lokot","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2021.1995619","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines citizens’ use of cities as communicative spaces for expressing “Europeanness” – both in everyday life and in moments of mass mobilisation. It critically reflects on the notion of European urbanity as an aspirational, yet problematic ideal and seeks to decentre (Western) Europe as the default source of ideas about what it means to be European by attending to “peripheral” voices at Europe’s edge. It examines the events and symbolism of Ukraine’s 2013–2014 Euromaidan protest and its aftermath as a microcosm that reflects the broader negotiation of Ukraine’s imaginary of Europe and its own place within that imaginary.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"439 - 446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995619","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay examines citizens’ use of cities as communicative spaces for expressing “Europeanness” – both in everyday life and in moments of mass mobilisation. It critically reflects on the notion of European urbanity as an aspirational, yet problematic ideal and seeks to decentre (Western) Europe as the default source of ideas about what it means to be European by attending to “peripheral” voices at Europe’s edge. It examines the events and symbolism of Ukraine’s 2013–2014 Euromaidan protest and its aftermath as a microcosm that reflects the broader negotiation of Ukraine’s imaginary of Europe and its own place within that imaginary.
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.
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