Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv

Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia's voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L'viv is an especially apt site for investigation of the nexus intelligentsia-nation not only in the Ukrainian, but in the East-Central European context. This borderline city, while not being a remarkable industrial, administrative or political centre, has acquired the reputation of a site of unique cultural production and a principal center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement throughout the twentieth century. Here the popular conceptions of intelligentsia have been elaborated at the intersection of various cultural, historical and political traditions. This study addresses Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia and intellectuals in L'viv both as a discursive phenomenon and as the social category of cultural producers who in the new circumstances both articulate the nation and are articulated by it.

Auteur
Eleonora Narvselius holds her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from Linköping University (Sweden) and degree in ethnology from Kyiv University (Ukraine). She launched her scholarly career at the Ethnology Institute in L'viv, a research institution at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She has conducted her fieldwork in different L'viv milieus in the course of more than 10 years. Presently she is affiliated with the Centre for European Studies at Lund University (Sweden).

Contenu
Introduction
Chapter 1: Approaching Intelligentsia
Chapter 2: Intelligentsia and Problematics of Culture, Nation, Class and Power
Chapter 3: A Historical Stage for Intelligentsia's Projects: Polyethnic, Multicultural, Nationalist Daily L'viv
Chapter 4: Incarnations of the Protagonist: Old IntelligentsiaNew IntelligentsiaPseudo-IntelligentsiaNon-Intelligentsia
Chapter 5: Between Kham and Knight: The L'viv Intelligentsia's "Others" and Alter Egos
Chapter 6: Intelligentsia's Spaces in L'viv
Chapter 7: Empowering Projects of the L'viv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule: Narratives about L'viv's Centrality and Peripherality
Chapter 8: Empowering Projects of the L'viv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule: Narratives about (Be)longing, Ambiguity and Cultural Colonization
Chapter 9: Opening a Pandora's Box: Collective Memories and "Blank Spots" of the Ukrainian Past in Historical Narratives of the L'viv Intelligentsia
Conclusions: Intelligentsia in L'viv: The Power of Location and Narration