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A Bitter Divorce: Narratives of Crimean Annexation and their Relation to Larger State Identifications

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  • Olena Nedozhogina

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This article uses interviews with inhabitants of Crimea to analyse individual-level narratives surrounding the annexation of the peninsula by Russia and locate these narratives in relation to recent research on changes in Ukrainian identity discourse. It investigates how the trauma of the 2014 political change affected respondents’ identifications and led to the reworking of earlier identity narratives as a means of re-establishing the subjects’ ontological integrity. As a result, three narratives (those of supporters of the change, non-supporters and ambivalent respondents) were established. The narratives of pro-Russian and ambivalent Crimeans were found to be similar, highlighting a sense of trauma that the imagined unity between Ukraine and Russia had been undermined. The narratives of pro-Ukrainian Crimeans focused on the loss of unity within the Crimean community.

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  • Olena Nedozhogina, 2019. "A Bitter Divorce: Narratives of Crimean Annexation and their Relation to Larger State Identifications," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 71(7), pages 1069-1090, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:71:y:2019:i:7:p:1069-1090
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1634677
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