CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Havrylenko, Yelyzaveta |
|---|---|
| Title | 30 years after an accident: Collective memory of the Chornobyl resettlers |
| Summary | Chornobyl disaster that happened in Ukraine in 1986, was one of the most serious nuclear catastrophes in the world. However, no separate research on its social consequences for the resettled people and the Ukrainian society has been done. Through the example of village the village of Kupuvate in Chornobyl zone in Ukraine, current research gives up-to-date information about the collective memory transformations that have happened to the resettled people. Main findings of the research are following: feeling of belonging to the former homeland among resettlers that did not disappear over 30 years and a contradiction of Soviet, Ukrainian, and alternative discourses of the Chornobyl disaster and zone. Along with this, spatial resilience of the Chornobyl zone is analyzed from the post-disaster management perspective and the possible trajectories of recovery for the resettlers, the Zone, and the Ukrainian society are marked. The current research contributes to the maintenance of the social memory about the Chornobyl disaster as well as provides practical solutions for the overcoming the trauma caused by it in the community of the resettlers and the larger Ukrainian society as a whole. |
| Supervisor | Dafinger, Andreas (supervisor), Naumescu, Vlad (second reader) |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/havrylenko_yelyzavet.pdf |
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