Is civilizational primordialism any better than nationalist primordialism?
Gorbach, Denys LU
(2024)
In Focaal
2024(98).
p.114-116
- Abstract
- The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war seems to have prompted a return to anthropology's origins: the armchair. Claiming authority based on status and knowledge accumulated elsewhere and extrapolated to Ukraine, public scholars have proffered takes, op-eds, and geopolitical phantasies. Slow research in the full ethnographic mode, studying actors and subjectivities in fast shifting contexts, would have been preferable. In a context of war, complex and dynamic political phenomena easily become tokens in political debates that do not go much beyond statements of political identity.
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- Gorbach, Denys
LU
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- Focaal
- volume
- 2024
- issue
- 98
- pages
- 114 - 116
- publisher
- Berghahn Journals
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85186245958
- ISSN
- 0920-1297
- DOI
- 10.3167/fcl.2024.980112
- language
- English
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