Regionalism Without Regions

Reconceptualizing Ukraine's Heterogeneity
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-963-7326-63-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

Reihe: Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe - CEU Press

This collective volume shows how Ukraine can best be understood through its regions and how the regions must be considered against the background of the nation. The overarching objective of the book is to challenge the dominance of the nation-state paradigm in the analyses of Ukraine by illustrating the interrelationship between national and regional dynamics of change. The authors—historians, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, literary critics and linguists from Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the USA—explicitly go beyond the perspective of an entity defined by traditional political borders and cultural, economic, historical or religious stereotypes. The research project that led to the composition of the book combined quantitative (statistical surveys conducted across Ukraine) and qualitative (in-depth interviews and focus-group discussion) methods. The authors came to the conclusion that regionalism as a defining phenomenon of Ukraine is more prominent than the regions themselves. This approach regards Ukraine as a construct in flux where different discourses intersect, concur and eventually merge through the lenses of various disciplines and methodologies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myshlovska, Oksana

Schmid, Ulrich

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Transliteration, List of Tables, List of Figures, List of Diagrams, List of Images,1. Introduction, 2. The Regional Differentiation of Identities in Ukraine: How Many Regions?, 3. The Ukrainian Past and Present: Legacies, Memory and Attitudes, 4. Language(s) in the Ukrainian Regions: Historical Roots and the Current Situation, 5. Literary Mediascapes in Ukraine, 6. Religion and the Cultural Geography of Ukraine, 7. Recent Regional Economic Development in Ukraine: Does History Help to Explain the Differences?, 8. Ukraine in 2013-2014: A New Political Geography, 9. Renegotiating Ukrainian Identity at the Euromaidan, 10. Conclusion, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oksana Myshlovska is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Ulrich Schmid is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.