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Genova, Neda (2022) Recursive lions and strange continuities of Bulgarian nationalism. European Review, 30 (4). pp. 505-518. doi:10.1017/S1062798722000151 ISSN 1062-7987.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1062798722000151
Abstract
The aim of this article is to propose the methodological and conceptual tool of ‘recursion’ as a means of understanding the production of historical continuity and discontinuity between different forms of nationalism in Bulgaria. The recent case of the demolition of the socialist-modernist monument ‘1300 Years of Bulgaria’ and its replacement with an earlier memorial from the authoritarian period of the 1930s forms the point of departure for this examination. Adopting a media and cultural studies perspective, the text focuses on the symbolic function of lions in both monuments and how they are engaged in the production of nationalist rhetoric and imagery. In line with Ann Laura Stoler’s (2016) proposition that the method of ‘recursive analytics’ can allow us to overcome the impasse formed by attempts to postulate either continuity or rupture between present and past, I first account for the histories of the erection of both monuments before proposing to read the ‘Bulgarian lions’, featuring in both of them, as recursive figures.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bulgaria -- Politics and government , Nationalism -- Bulgaria, Monuments -- Bulgaria, Lion in heraldry -- Bulgaria | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Review | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1062-7987 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 30 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 505-518 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1062798722000151 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 May 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 May 2022 |
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