CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Posnova, Anastasiia |
|---|---|
| Title | Recognition in Exile: A Theory of Legitimation through Cultural (Re)Production |
| Summary | Throughout history, political exilees have been able to impact the international system in ways big and small — from delegitimating the home governments in the eyes of the foreign public to galvanizing support for the struggle at home. Yet, the literature on how they seek recognition necessary to achieve their goals has been surprisingly lacking. Despite exilees’ importance as non-state actors in world politics, their legitimation strategies remain heavily under-researched and under-theorized. In this paper, I address that issue by proposing a theory of legitimation through cultural (re)production to elucidate how exilees might legitimate themselves and their pursuits. The theory emerges from my engagement with the empirical data, where I utilize an inductive thematic analysis informed by the basic premises of grounded theory to look at the cultural (re)production of the team of Alexey Navalny within the bounds of the team’s campaign for the Navalny documentary to be awarded an Oscar. Through this engagement, I carve out four distinct legitimating strategies exilees deploy through cultural (re)production and show systematically how these strategies are used in reality. This theory builds on existing research that hints at this practice, but does not clearly elucidate it, and offers a novel way of looking at how exilees strive for authority within the international system. |
| Supervisor | Kurowska, Xymena |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/posnova_anastasiia.pdf |
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