“A memória aniquila o tempo”
Orientalismo e afetos nos expansionismos russos sobre a Ucrânia em 2014 e 2022
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https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.145663Keywords:
Russia, Ukraine, OrientalismAbstract
The Russian incursion into Ukraine in 2022 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 share central features of Moscow's political agenda, such as maintaining influence over Ukrainian territory, reacting to Western provocations, and using historical discourses to legitimize its national identity. Since the eve of 2014, the Kremlin has been promoting the construction of a national identity based on a kind of exceptionalism that justifies and legitimizes Moscow's role as Ukraine's savior through historical remembrance and affective discourses. In this sense, the paper proposes to analyze these episodes from the perspective of Edward Said's Orientalism, suggesting that Russia constructs a historical narrative that legitimizes its action over another state. The research, therefore, aims to explore how Orientalist discourse is formed and characterized, and how it materializes in laws and policies that consolidate Russian power, with an emphasis on the construction of a potentially monolithic image of Ukraine.
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