Father Bandera versus Father Zaluzhnyi: On the Economy of Cultural Paternalism in Ukraine after 2014

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the transformations of war-induced gender regimes in Ukrainian culture, trying to show how—and why—"Father Bandera" managed to codify a rather heterogenous field of cultural gender contestations between 2014 and 2019-20 under the common nationalist and paternalistic denominator. It will also blueprint the afterlife of "Father Bandera" after 2022, especially its reification in a highly popular figure of General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, whose medial portrayals seem to amend the nationalist rigorousness of the UPA leader with joie de vivre of effervescent sexuality.

Author

• Oleksandr Chertenko, U of Giessen (Germany)