TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEMORIAL SPACE AND MEMORIAL PRACTICES IN UKRAINE IN THE PERIOD OF INDEPENDENCE

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to conceptualize a new vision of cultural memory of Ukraine. The following special scientific research methods are applied: memorial cartography, which enables to create a kind of map of «places of memory» for a particular culture (in our case – museums); memorial political analysis helps to study the full range of official and non-official, national and regional policies of memory. Scientific novelty lies in the further development of the author’s structural and functional model of the memorial landscape of Ukrainian culture as a complex, multi-layered and diverse formation and commemorative practices of its functioning on the basis of large transformations in 2013–2016. Conclusions. The study shows that the transition from mechanical combination of different chronological layers of memory to in a certain way structured system is completed. A complex of places of memory, including memorials to social and political and cultural figures and numerous monuments dedicated to Cossacks is becoming a basis of the cultural memory of Ukraine. This process may be accelerated by the well-directed state memorial practicies, the quantity, regularity and scale of which is constantly growing starting from the 2000th.