Memoralisation of the Military conflict in Donbass in the monuments
Memoralisation of the Military conflict in Donbass in the monuments
Keywords:
Donbass, spontaneous and institutional memorialization, commemorative practices, monuments and memorials, a place of memory, tragic deathAbstract
In the article the author reconstructs and analyzes the processes of memorialization of the military conflict in Donbass, namely on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republics and Lugansk People’s Republics. The article is based on the material of the author’s own observations of commemorative practices in Donbass and analysis of open sources (media, social networks, blogs, etc.). The author systemizes memory places locations according to temporal characteristics and spatial localization. Due to political, economic and social isolation of Donbass, the commemorative function is exclusively assigned to the local community, and the community fixes the fact of the event creating memorial visual objects. According to the overview of the visual objects-symbols that arose on the territory of Donbass in the period 2014-2020 those are memorial plaques, commemorative signs, monuments and memorial complexes. Memorials do not depend on the status of the deceased, age group or the number of dead. The determining factor is the fact of violent or tragic death. Spontaneous memorialization is temporally short and practically unrepresented due to the danger of pilgrimage to the place of tragedy.
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