Cultural identity in modern-day Belarusian discourse on public creativity

ABSTRACT

This study aims to extend the existing academic accounts on Belarus and provides an in-depth cultural discourse analysis of Belarusian meta-cultural commentary on public creativity. I focus on the discursive hub of identity which is expressed and characterized by the informants through the discursive hubs of acting and relating. Additional cultural and historical background on Belarus is considered to capture the complexity of meanings behind the cultural codes and indigenous terms about identity. This approach allows the analyst to show the historical contingency of the oppositional codes underlying the modern-day ideas about identity in the Belarusian discourses about public creativity.

KEYWORDS:

• Belarus
• cultural discourse analysis
• cultural identity
• social change
• public creativity