0576352 - ÚSD 2024 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Colla, M. - Gjuričová, Adéla
1989. The Chronopolitics of Revolution.
History and Theory. Roč. 62, č. 4 (2023), s. 45-65. ISSN 0018-2656. E-ISSN 1468-2303
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378114
Klíčová slova: Velvet Revolution * postcommunism * chronopolitics
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impakt faktor: 1.1, rok: 2023 ; AIS: 1.027, rok: 2023
Způsob publikování: Open access
Web výsledku:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12321

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12321

A failed effort at “reform from above” or a dramatic reassertion of “people power”? Almost thirty-five years on, studies of the Revolutions of 1989 continue to be framed by these two polarities. However, this historiographical focus has meant that scholars have often overlooked the actual content and character of protest itself. This article argues that one way of reinjecting agency and ideas back into our historical understanding of 1989 is through examining the chronopolitics of revolution: that is to say, by addressing how the control and interpretation of time became a political battlefield, a site of contention and negotiation, between Communist regimes, on the one hand, and political activists and society, on the other. Investigating events in the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia, the article contains two central claims: first, that an interrogation of the concept of “chronopolitics” can provide a new angle by which to grasp the revolutionary character of “1989” and the democratic transformations that resulted and, second, by way of inversion, that a study of the temporal experiences across 1989 and the early 1990s can in turn shed light on the analytical value of “chronopolitics” more generally.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347941