“A Cossack's Whole Life is War, there is no Fear in a Cossack's Heart!” or How They Become Cossacks Today
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Acknowledgments
Research was conducted with the support of HSE University
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Puzankov I.A. “A Cossack’s Whole Life is War, there is no Fear in a Cossack’s Heart!” or How They Become Cossacks Today. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2022. Vol. 14. No. 4. P. 41-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2022.14.4.3 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The work is devoted to the consideration of the modern Cossacks (on the example of the Kuban), in particular its collective identity through the prism of a complex of theoretical approaches: the theory of masculinity (in the dimensions of hegemony and militarization), as well as affective solidarity grounded on the theory of collective identity. Empirically, the collective identity of the Cossacks is considered through the narratives of the representatives of the Kuban Cossack army, where it is invoked and categorized. The results of the study were the categorization contour of the modern collective identity of the Cossacks. The center of the social identity of the modern Cossacks reveals a historical pattern of militarized masculinity, which is significantly saturated with affective experiences of informants when pronouncing certain categories. The presence of such an experience provides a more complete interiorization of the specific foundations of identity by the Cossacks.
Keywords:
Kuban Cossacks, militarized masculinity, affect, identity, narrative identity
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Rozhdestvenskaya E.Yu. (2002) Sociologicheskaya konceptualizaciya maskulinnosti [Sociological Conceptualization of Masculinity]. Sociologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Research]. No. 11. P. 15—25. (In Russ.)
Ryabova T.B., Ryabov O.V. (2011) “Nastoyashchij muzhik”: o gendernom izmerenii simvolicheskoj politiki [“A Real Man”: about the Gender Dimension of Symbolic Politics]. Zhenshchina v rossijskom obshchestve [A Woman in Russian Society]. No. 3. P. 68—72. (In Russ.) EDN: OJMXLP
Somers M. (1994) The Narrative Constitution of Identity: a Relational and Network Approach. Theory A. Society. Vol. 23. No. 5. P. 605— 649.
Tapscott R. (2020) Militarized Masculinity and the Paradox of Restraint: Mechanisms of Social Control under Modern Authoritarianism. International Affairs. Vol. 96. No. 6. P. 1565—1584. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa163
Tajfel H. (1972) Social Categorization. In: S. Moscovici (ed.) Introduction à la Psychologie Sociale. No. 1. P. 272—302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/EJSP.2420030103
Vasil'ev I.Yu. (2019) Rossijskoe kazachestvo: mesto v istorii [Russian Cossacks: a Place in History]. Nacional'nye prioritety Rossii [National Priorities of Russia]. Vol. 33. No. 2. P. 6—12. (In Russ.) EDN: SGQEZC
Zdravomyslova E.A., Tyomkina A.A. (2018) Chto takoe «maskulinnost'»? Ponyatijnye otmychki kriticheskih issledovanij muzhchin i maskulinnostej [What is "Masculinity"? Conceptual Master Keys of Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities]. Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya: Ekonomicheskie i social'nye peremeny [Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes]. No. 6. P. 48—73. (In Russ.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.14515/MONITORING.2018.6.03 EDN: VWSALC
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Puzankov, I. A. (2022). “A Cossack’s Whole Life is War, there is no Fear in a Cossack’s Heart!” or How They Become Cossacks Today. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 14(4), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2022.14.4.3
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