{"id":24784,"date":"2024-12-22T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T12:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=24784"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:27:03","slug":"regressive-neo-tribalist-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=24784","title":{"rendered":"Regressive neo-tribalist identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How do I want this book to be read? My answer may sound surprising and perhaps like wishful thinking. I would like this book, with its rolling analysis of the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine, to be read first and foremost because it records reactions to <em>globally relevant<\/em> processes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>First, the late Soviet and post-Soviet leadership became seen as nothing more than a corrupt, self-serving elite. The atomized masses responded with frequent but poorly organized and amorphous protests that, when successful, only reproduced and intensified the underlying crisis. Unlike social revolutions, the <em>maidans<\/em> did not bring radical transformations in favour of the popular classes; they typically only increased social inequality. The <em>maidan<\/em> revolutions did not even build a stronger state but only destabilized the existing one, allowing domestic and transnational elite rivals to seize the opportunity to advance their interests and agendas. The post-Soviet elite responded only with more coercion, which eventually escalated into war. This set the stage for the flourishing not of developmental national ideologies but of regressive neo-tribalist identities. There was no strong force from below to counteract this dynamic. The processes of the escalating crisis of hegemony are universal, but their manifestations in the post-Soviet space are of a rather unique magnitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Volodymyr Ishchenko, <em>Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War<\/em>, (London: Verso, 2024), xiv, xxviii-xxix.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first read Ishchenko&#8217;s suggestion studying post-Soviet Ukraine provides useful insight into globally relevant processes I didn&#8217;t feel I understood what he meant, however the more I read Ishchenko&#8217;s work the more I get the feeling that as with <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">John Dunlop<\/span>&#8217;s writing on the late Yeltsin and early Putin years what is being described very much does provide a guide into processes currently shaping the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I want this book to be read? My answer may sound surprising and perhaps like wishful thinking. I would like this book, with its rolling analysis of the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine, to be read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=24784\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}