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Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea de Katie Stallard

Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea

Autor Katie Stallard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 sep 2022

Evoluția geopolitică a ultimului deceniu marchează un regres vizibil al optimismului democratic post-1945, lăsând loc unei reîntoarceri agresive la naționalism și autoritarism. În acest context, Dancing on Bones propune o analiză pătrunzătoare a modului în care Rusia, China și Coreea de Nord instrumentalizează memoria istorică pentru a-și justifica politicile externe expansioniste și controlul intern. Putem afirma că lucrarea lui Katie Stallard demonstrează cum istoria nu este doar un depozit de fapte, ci o armă politică activă. Notăm cu interes detaliile despre modul în care Xi Jinping a extins narativul participării Chinei în al Doilea Război Mondial sau cum Vladimir Putin a transformat victoria asupra nazismului într-un pilon central al identității de stat, suprimând orice interpretare alternativă.

Subliniem faptul că autoarea utilizează experiența sa de corespondent pe teren pentru a oferi o perspectivă autentică asupra modului în care cetățenii acestor state sunt expuși constant unor mituri fondatoare recalibrate. Dancing on Bones extinde cadrul propus de Memory Makers de Jade McGlynn cu date noi din realitățile politice ale Chinei și Coreei de Nord, oferind o viziune comparativă asupra modului în care regimurile autocratice, deși diferite ideologic, folosesc tehnici similare de „patriotism istoric”. Spre deosebire de monografiile axate strict pe un singur lider, precum Bringing Stalin Back In, această lucrare publicată de Oxford University Press conectează punctele între trei puteri nucleare, evidențiind un tipar global de asediu asupra ordinii internaționale prin rescrierea trecutului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197575352
ISBN-10: 0197575358
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 159 x 241 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile ideologice ale conflictelor actuale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care propaganda istorică pregătește terenul pentru acțiuni militare sau represive. Este o recomandare fermă pentru studenții de la relații internaționale și pentru oricine este preocupat de viitorul democrației în fața ascensiunii noilor autocrații.

Despre autor

Katie Stallard este un autor și jurnalist cu o vastă experiență internațională, fiind Senior Editor pentru China la publicația New Statesman. Anterior, a activat ca și corespondent pentru Sky News în Rusia și Asia, perioadă în care a raportat direct din zone de conflict precum Crimeea și estul Ucrainei, dar și din Phenian. Expertiza sa în analiza regimurilor autoritare și accesul direct la evenimentele care au marcat ultima decadă îi conferă autoritatea de a diseca mecanismele complexe prin care puterea politică modelează memoria colectivă în statele cu ambiții imperiale.

Descriere

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles inDancing on Bones, as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule.Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them.Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting,Dancing on Bonesargues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.

Recenzii

Dancing on Bones is a compelling testament to the power of history and myth in global politics. Fast-paced and insightful, Stallard's book skillfully unfolds the narratives that legitimize and drive the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand how America's competitors think.
When I first arrived in England some thirty years ago, I was surprised to find that the history of the People's Republic of China, as taught at Oxford, was quite different from what we were taught at school. This book helped me to better understand why and how authoritarian leaders want to control the history of their nations. Interweaving interviews and personal stories of those challenging the official narrative and fighting for the right to preserve individual memory, this book delivers a powerful antidote to the stereotypes and caricatures that so often dominate coverage of these countries. Deeply reported and drawing on extensive research, the result is a nuanced and compelling account that sheds light on these consequential global powers.
Through impeccable research and exhaustive reporting, Katie Stallard details how three modern-day autocrats have co-opted and corrupted-and often outright fabricated-history in their efforts to stay in power and try to gain the upper geopolitical hand. To understand how Putin, Xi, and Kim operate in the present, Stallard expertly shows how they are weaponizing the past. Essential reading.
A beguiling and disturbing journey into how a new generation of authoritarian leaders distort the past to dominate the present. A powerful mix of reportage and analysis.
An engaging account of how leaders in China, Russia and North Korea and remolded, re-tooled and retrofitted postwar history to turn it into an unforgiving bulwark of support for today's regimes. Its value lies not just in illuminating how this happened, but why it matters for the rest of the world, as the powerful and aggrieved nationalism constructed on this new historical foundation spills out into the rest of the world.
The book is based on the author's first-hand experience as a journalist in Russia, China and North Korea, combining journalistic curiosity and scholarship to produce an interesting and readable account that avoids complex theories and jargon. Stallard's book, while offering much to specialists, is also accessible to non-specialist readers who wish to understand the popular support for the leadership of Putin, Xi and Kim.
Dancing on Bones is a book about how three authoritarian states have shaped their respective historical narratives, but it also contains elements of reportage and time spent in Russia, China, and North Korea. This in-country experience lends Dancing on Bones a certain immediacy, a conversational fluency, that enlivens the text. Thus, while it operates along the same argumentative lines taken by other commercially successful or Timothy Snyder-esque texts written for the US market-chronicling authoritarian similarities or sinews of alignment, accusing the authoritarian states of harnessing academia and repressing civil society, and sounding the alarm of a rising colossus of misinformation in the East-Katie Stallard's book has unique aspects that make it worth reading.
In Dancing on Bones, Katie Stallard has produced a work of remarkable insight and relevance. Through meticulous analysis and evocative storytelling, she illuminates the ways in which history is co-opted to serve the interests of those in power. At once a study of authoritarian regimes and a broader meditation on the nature of historical memory, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the intersection of history, politics, and power in the modern world.

Notă biografică

Katie Stallardis Senior Editor, China and Global Affairs, at the New Statesman magazine and a non-resident Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. She was previously based in Russia and China as a foreign correspondent for Sky News, where she reported extensively from across both countries, as well as North Korea, South Korea, Myanmar, Japan, Georgia, and Ukraine, and covered conflicts and natural disasters around the world. She broadcast under sniper fire from ISIS-linked militants in the Philippines, from Crimea as Russian forces annexed the peninsula, and from the front lines of the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine. As well as the New Statesman and Sky News, her writing has been published in outlets including Foreign Policy,The National Interest,The Diplomat, and the East Asia Forum.