Will Pussy Riot Dance on #Euromaidan?: New Dissidence, Civic Disobedience and Cyber-Mythology in the Post-Soviet Context

Written in the beginning of December 2013, this article was inspired by two events that temporarily coincided: the massive manifestations in Kiyv’s Maidan Square, called ‘Euromaidan’ and the release of Pussy Riot from prison in Russia. Asking myself if those two events were pure coincidence, or if t...

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Auteur principal: Čermalych, Natalʹja (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill [2014]
Dans: Religion & gender
Année: 2014, Volume: 4, Numéro: 2, Pages: 215-220
Sujets non-standardisés:B media activism
B media and mythology
B Pussy Riot
B Censorship
B cyber-activism
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Résumé:Written in the beginning of December 2013, this article was inspired by two events that temporarily coincided: the massive manifestations in Kiyv’s Maidan Square, called ‘Euromaidan’ and the release of Pussy Riot from prison in Russia. Asking myself if those two events were pure coincidence, or if there were a certain political or at least media causality between the two, I try to analyse both processes (Euromaidan media representation and Pussy Riot media plot) as new myths (referring to Barthes, McLuhan and Meletinskii’s theories) of political resistance in post-Soviet territories, created through the media.
ISSN:1878-5417
Contient:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18785417-00402010