The Polish-Lithuanian borderlands, past and present : multicultural versus decolonial responses to local and state violence

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Polish-Lithuanian borderlands, past and present: multicultural versus decolonial responses to local and state violence
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In the Journal:
Nationalities papers. 2018, Vol. 46, no. 4, p. 654-670
Summary / Abstract:

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Dekolonialumas; Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Pasienio etniniai konfliktai; Pasienio etninis konfliktas; Seinai; Borderland ethnic conflict; Decoloniality; Lithuania; Lithunia; Seinai; Sejny.

ENThis article presents the case of the Suwałki Triangle region on the current Polish–Lithuanian border to demonstrate how local activists developed a “multicultural” interpretation of social relations to counter previously dominant nationalist narratives. It then contrasts this interpretation with a “decoloniality” framework to illustrate the limits of the multicultural approach. Decoloniality, developed by Walter Mignolo to theorize about Latin American historical experiences, finds continued hierarchies in the apparently plural social landscape, situates identity as a fluid response to these hierarchies, and privileges voices that are “delinked” from them. Decoloniality may explain the complex borderland identifications of the Suwałki Triangle – and potentially other territorialized communities – better than multiculturalism. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1080/00905992.2017.1373334
ISSN:
0090-5992; 1465-3923
Related Publications:
The Logic of violence in the Polish-Lithuanian conflict, 1920–1923 / Tomas Balkelis. Nationalities papers. 2021, Vol. 49, no. 5, p. 911-925.
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