Alexandra Goujon

University of Burgundy | UB · Centre de Recherche et d’Étude en Droit et Science Politique (CREDESPO)

This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization. Including a wide and diverse range of alternatives in the organization of groups, campaigning, conducting initiati...

Going Public in a Revolutionary Situation Maïdan and the Ordinary Citizen in Ukraine (Winter 2013-2014) The Ukrainian protest movement of winter 2013-2014, known as Maïdan in reference to the occupied main square in the center of Kiev, caused two types of protagonism to emerge among its ordinary participants. On the one hand, ordinary protagonism...

Ce livre s'inspire d'une thèse de doctorat en sociologie qui s'appuie sur plusieurs séjours de recherche menés en Biélorussie à la fin des années 1990 et au début des années 2000. Déjà publié aux éditions Aux lieux d'être en 2007, cet ouvrage propose une analyse du rôle et de la place des datchas dans la vie des citoyens biélorusses. Si l'auteur év...

The memory of WWII always played an important role in Belarus, which was characterized as a “Partisan Republic” during the Soviet time. Soviet historiography and memorial narrative emphasized the heroics of the resistance to fascism and allowed only a description of the crimes of the Nazis. New ways of looking at war events appeared during the pere...

Valery Tishkov has been director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1989. A specialist in the indigenous peoples of northern Canada, Tishkov is labelled a constructivist for his critique of the theory of etnos, a dominant concept in Soviet anthropology from the 1960s. But he is also a practitione...

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine: An Example of Post-Soviet Mobilization The December 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine that brought Viktor Yushchenko, the candidate of the Ukrainian opposition, to the country’s highest office, shows that civic disengagement is not a fatality in post-Soviet societies. More than ten years after independence, the que...

Résumé Le « loukachisme » est un terme utilisé par les opposants au régime politique en Biélorussie pour condamner les origines personnelles du modèle politique du président Loukachenko élu en 1994. Le concept de « populisme autoritaire » utilisé dans l’article cherche à rompre avec une analyse centrée sur la personnalité et avec une approche cultu...

The politicization of language issues has increasingly intensified since the progressive implementation of Lukashenka's authoritarian type of rule. Language has been an instrument of power in political conflicts between Lukashenka and the oppossition. In this respect, language is part of the 'psychological' violence that exists in Belarusian politi...

Created in the 1980s to support the Perestroika, popular fronts have gradually become autonomous political organizations with transforming the Soviet Republics into national states as their major objective. Relations with local Communists have largely determined their evolution. Unlike the Baltic popular fronts, which allied with national Communist...