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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Arve
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-01T20:53:31Z
dc.date.available2020-03-01T20:53:31Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractMuch has been said and written about the Ukrainian revolution of 2013–14, yet research on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the protests’ most iconic location, has thus far been rather limited. This article analyses the history, attributes and symbolism of this particular city space. What function does Maidan have in the Ukrainian society? In the cause of my fieldwork in Kyiv 2013–15 on the recent revolution, I found that Maidan has many features that make it a particularly suitable site for protests. In the current article I argue that several factors related to the square’s physical space, from its location between the religious, historical and political centres of Ukraine, to its proximity to important landmarks, as well as its infrastructure, shape, architecture, and size, make Maidan both a symbolic and a practical space to occupy for people demanding change. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union Maidan has acquired a special significance for Ukrainians. The name of the square itself could be interpreted as a protest against Russia, and the many protests and three revolutions on Maidan have given it a particular revolutionary meaning. I argue that Maidan functions as a socio-political safety valve – a place people turn to and turn up at to demand change when the formal political institutions fail to deliver.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHansen A. Majdan Nezalezjnosti: symbolikk og funksjon. Nordisk Østforum. 2016;30(2):118-134
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1363473
dc.identifier.doi10.17585/nof.v30.424
dc.identifier.issn0801-7220
dc.identifier.issn1891-1773
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17561
dc.language.isonoben_US
dc.publisherCappelen Damm Akademisk
dc.relation.ispartofHansen, A. (2020). Mass Protests from a Spatial Perspective: Discontent and Urban Public Space in Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow. (Doctoral thesis). <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17417>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17417</a>
dc.relation.journalNordisk Østforum
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000en_US
dc.subjectByrom / City spaceen_US
dc.subjectUkraina / Ukraineen_US
dc.title.alternativeMaidan Nezalezhnosti: Symbolism and Functionen_US
dc.titleMajdan Nezalezjnosti: symbolikk og funksjonen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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