Трансформація символічних ландшафтів Донбасу під час воєнного конфлікту

Abstract

The formation of sacred/cultural landscapes is a strategy of conflicting parties who oppose each other in the struggle for domination over a certain space. The exercise of power in a given territory is characteristic of both democratic and totalitarian/authoritarian regimes. There is also the creation of two types of symbolic urban landscapes in the conflict-stricken Donbas, which reflect the pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian geopolitical orientation. In the region we record the following spatial manifestations of the "war of monuments": 1) dismantling, destruction of the monument; 2) relocation of the monument to another place; 3) "masking" the symbolic essence of the monument by transforming it; 4) creation of memorials, places of memory; 5) mirror memorialization of urban landscapes by the parties to the conflict (alleys of heroes in controlled and uncontrolled territories).