Securitization of Memory in the Pandemic Period
The article examines the processes of memory securitization in the Russian Federation and Latvia during the coronavirus crisis. The key factor that allowed the authors to make such a statement about the problem was the temporary coincidence of the pandemic with the 75th anniversary of the final def...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of International Relations Prague
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Czech Journal of International Relations |
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| Online Access: | https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/74 |
| Summary: | The article examines the processes of memory securitization in the Russian
Federation and Latvia during the coronavirus crisis. The key factor that
allowed the authors to make such a statement about the problem was the
temporary coincidence of the pandemic with the 75th anniversary of the
final defeat of Nazi Germany and the so-called Victory Day. As a theoretical
basis for the study, we use the constructivist understanding of security in
order to study, with specific examples, how the threat in the form of a
pandemic became a frame for securitization of memory. The authors
identify the peculiarities of the articulating of security problems by political
elites in two states with different memory regimes framed by the pandemic
as an external factor.
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| ISSN: | 0323-1844 2570-9429 |