The Department of Onomastics at the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences, together with the Ethnological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has been involved in the AV21 Strategy since January 2024.
The strategy is titled "Identity in the World of Wars and Crises," with a joint project focusing on "National and Ethnic Identities in Central and Eastern Europe through the Lens of Official and Unofficial Geographical Names."
IDENTITIES IN THE WORLD OF WARS AND CRISES
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS
Institute of Ethnology of the CAS
The current war in Ukraine, the growing turmoil in the Balkans, as well as the tensions between China, Taiwan and other countries are only the most visible manifestations of the "new Cold War", of how fragile and unstable the current world order is. Challenging the current boundaries between states, whether through brute military force or through the use of propaganda and manipulation, is closely related to the question of identity as a key tool of self-identification and demarcation vis-à-vis the other. This process can be examined at the level of individuals as well as entire societies, nations or transnational entities. Indeed, a similar questioning of traditional arrangements is taking place within the functioning of Western society as a whole. Deepening social inequalities, accompanied by new culture wars, are leading to the obscuring of previously constituted patterns of identification and their gradual replacement by new identities. Alongside established ethnic or religious models, new gender, social or political-emancipatory types of identity are emerging. A low level of understanding of these new challenges, often threatening the world as we know it, can have serious consequences.
This interdisciplinary and comparative programme responds to the current disbalance in the value and geopolitical ordering of the contemporary world and explores the formation and negotiation of identities within and between diverse communities and states. Particular attention is paid to regions whose development has major implications for life in the Czech Republic and whose research has been underestimated in recent times: China, Russia, Ukraine and the Balkans. At the same time, the global anchoring of the programme will enable a broader contextualisation of activities focused on current social challenges within the Czech Republic, at the level of empirical research on identities in different segments of society, which should provide the basis for the formulation of concrete measures responding to dynamic changes in this area.
GOALS
- To contribute to a better orientation of individuals and society in contemporary crises of various types
- To improve the awareness of key public actors on identity issues and 'identity politics'
- To examine in an interdisciplinary perspective the formation and negotiation of identities within and between different communities and states, both in the present and from a micro- and macro-historical perspective
- To examine, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the formation and application of regionally or socially conditioned identification in relation to the strengthening of territorial and social cohesion within the Czech Republic and with regard to the impact of social crises (migration, war, etc.)
- To contribute to research on cultural heritage as one of the key tools of national identification and state representation
- To strengthen cooperation between research institutes within and outside the CAS
Partner institutes
- Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Brno
- Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague
- Institute of Botany of the CAS
- Institute of Philosophy of the CAS
- Institute of History of the CAS
- Oriental Institute of the CAS
- Institute of Psychology of the CAS
- Institute of Slavonic Studies of the CAS
- Institute of Sociology of the CAS
- Institute of Art History of the CAS
- Institute of Computer Science of the CAS
- Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS
- Institute of the Czech Language of the CAS
- Institute of Contemporary History of the CAS
- Institute of State and Law of the CAS
- Global Change Research Institute of the CAS
Cooperating partners
- Agency for Migration and Adaptation AMIGA
- Center of Social and Psychological Sciences
- Czech Society for Slavonic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Estonian Academy of Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities, Charles Unversity in Prague
- Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University
- Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
- Faculty of Arts, Charles Unversity in Prague
- History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
- Holiday Films
- Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles Unversity in Prague
- Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Kathmandu University
- Ludwig-Maximilians-University
- National Library
- Faculty of Education, Masaryk University
- Faculty of Education, Charles Unversity in Prague
- Sinopsis
- Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Science
- Gonzaga University
- University of Regensburg
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