{"id":5874,"date":"2026-09-23T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doktorikool.ee\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5874"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:30:12","slug":"avalik-loeng-turism-riigiloomes-riigi-legitimeerimine-ja-rahvusloome-ukrainas-ja-transnistrias-alates-2022-aastast","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"http:\/\/www.doktorikool.ee\/en\/uritused\/avalik-loeng-turism-riigiloomes-riigi-legitimeerimine-ja-rahvusloome-ukrainas-ja-transnistrias-alates-2022-aastast\/","title":{"rendered":"Public lecture \u201cTourism Makes States: State Legitimisation and Nation-Building in Ukraine and Transnistria since 2022\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\ud83d\udccd Lossi 36-306<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event will be held in English.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone interested is welcome to attend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourism is rarely read as an instrument of geopolitics, yet in contested spaces it does some heavy lifting of state-building. This talk examines how two neighboring, highly securitized entities \u2013 sovereign Ukraine and the unrecognized breakaway region of Transnistria \u2013 mobilize tourism toward state legitimisation, nation-building, and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paraphrasing Tilly\u2019s \u201cwar makes states,\u201d it traces three mechanisms through which \u201ctourism makes states\u201d: territorialization, through infrastructure and itineraries that materialize control over space; nation-building, through museums, memorials, and shared experiences that make the nation tangible to its own citizens; and nation-branding\/public diplomacy, through the image a state or para-state projects to the outside world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In both cases, these mechanisms narrate the nation internally and externally. In Ukraine, they are meant to anchor sovereignty. In Transnistria, they work to normalize a breakaway border and project statehood despite non-recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracing tourism across these paired cases shows how ordinary, seemingly apolitical practices \u2013 visiting a museum, following a route \u2013 become political: tourism is not a vacation from politics, but politics in the shape of a vacation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facilitator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Magdalena Dembi\u0144ska<\/strong>, University of Montr\u00e9al, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magdalena Dembi\u0144ska is Full Professor of Political Science at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. Her research and teaching in comparative politics center on ethnic politics and conflict, state- and nation-building, and nationalism and diversity, with a regional focus on Eurasia and Central Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture will be moderated by dr Shpend Kursani<\/strong>Lecturer in International Relations at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further information, please contact Kristel Vits, kristel.vits@ut.ee<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estonian Doctoral School for Social Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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