| Abstrakt: |
The article is concerned with continuities and changes in identities in communities that have repeatedly experienced – and still experience now - restructurings and new orderings. The focus lies on two village communities in what is now West Ukraine, a region which in the past was exposed to various proposals for ‘community building’ in terms of integration into empires and nationstates; the region has been confronted with such questions of identification in renewed fashion since Ukrainian independence in 1991 and the conflict in East Ukraine from 2014 onwards. The case study illustrates the different communities of images, which overlap, blend and compete with each other. Every structural caesura, every collapse or foundation of a state, and the current crisis in East Ukraine bring with them new assignations of meaning, representations of space, and restructurings of mental maps – the maps inside people’s heads, which develop through their actions in social spaces and provide a structure for them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
