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SUMMARY:Lecture Series Russia´s war, Ukraine’s resistance | O. Filippov
 a & O. Deineko
DESCRIPTION:The current lecture series is aimed at revealing some of the a
 spects that pre-defined and framed the current occasions. On the one hand,
  the lectures will present the development of Ukrainian identity, nation a
 nd sovereignty in different historical context and under various, often co
 ntradicting factors. On the other hand, important part of the series is to
  show how Russia attempted to influence the country from several angles, o
 ften using media, culture and religion as tools of spreading narratives ha
 rmful for Ukrainian nation-building. 1. Lecture Tracking Ukrainian nationa
 l identity: from ‘unexpected nation’ to the ‘freedom nation’ by Ol
 ga Filippova, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University In 2000, after firs
 t decade of Ukrainian independence the British researcher Andrew Wilson pu
 blished his book "The Ukrainians. Unexpected nation". As A. Wils
 on has noted, for many western people Ukrainians were indeed an ‘unexpec
 ted nation’. Focusing on the complicated relations between Ukraine and R
 ussia, bringing a long historical perspective on Ukrainian experience unde
 r the tsars and the Soviet period, and Ukraine’s way to independence in 
 1991, this book also penetrated the debates over Ukrainian national identi
 ty. As for many postcommunist and postcolonial states, politics in Ukraine
 , social cohesion, and the state’s existence per se revolved(s) around t
 he issue of national identity. In his book’s new edition (2022) A. Wilso
 n offers further understanding of Ukraine, naming the book "The Ukrai
 nians. A story of how a people become a nation". What path did Ukrain
 ian society go through in its national identity construction? What point h
 as it reached on this path? Based on the results of different research con
 ducted by the author and other Ukrainian researchers over the years of ind
 ependence this lecture proposes to think about Ukrainian national identity
  through the prism of politics of identity and its key issues: who propose
 s and controls the meaning of identity; and what ‘content’ (what key e
 lements) was/is Ukrainian national identity built on? Tracking Ukrainian n
 ational identity from ‘Ukrainians as unexpected nation' this lecture pro
 poses reconsidering Ukrainians as a crystalizing ‘freedom nation’. Olg
 a Filippova is an associate professor at the School of Sociology, V.N. Kar
 azin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. Her main research interests evo
 lve around national identity, politics of identities, post-socialist trans
 formation, sociology of cyber space, sociocultural anthropology. Among her
  recent publications "Moral Economies of Care and Women Who Use Drugs in U
 kraine" (Contemporary Drug Problems, 2023, co-autrhored) and "The Politics
  of Identity in Ukrainian Border Regions" (2021, Chapter in edited book Th
 e Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-cultural Diversity in Ukraine"). She
  was also the leading researcher in the project ARDU – The accommodation
  of regional diversity in Ukraine, funded by the Research Council of Norwa
 y (NORRUSS Plus programme). 2. Lecture "Building bridges: the power of soc
 ial cohesion in Ukrainian society under the war" by Oleksandra Deineko, V.
 N. Karazin Kharkiv National University & Oslo Metropolitan University 
 The lecture will shed light on the social cohesion shifts that occurred in
  Ukrainian society since 24th February 2022. Drawing on the case study met
 hod, the lecture applies to juxtapose pre-war surveys with data collected 
 in Ukraine during March-December 2022 along with the text analysis of Ukra
 inian media designed to explain the qualitative angles. The study confirms
  the comprehensive strengthening of social cohesion at both attitudinal an
 d behavioral levels accompanied by unprecedented high institutional trust,
  civic identity, and mass-spread volunteering. The paper indicates how the
  value of Ukraine's independence became a crucial point for national conso
 lidation under war conditions. Along with the prospered mutual support, em
 otional connectedness, and enhanced horizontal bonds the social cohesion r
 isk zones are identified. The practices of resistance; citizens' expectati
 ons about the state's future; their feelings associated this the state and
  their belief in victory are proposed as additional indicators of social c
 ohesion measurement during wartime. Oleksandra Deineko is an associate pro
 fessor at the School of Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National Universit
 y, Ukraine, and a researcher at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research
 , Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. In her research Dr. Deineko focuse
 s on synthetic sociological theories, youth and culture studies, identity 
 and social cohesion. Among her recent publications the article "Dimensions
  of Social Cohesion in a Transitional Society: The Case of Ukraine" (Europ
 e-Asia Studies, 2022, co-authored) and "Social Cohesion in Decentralised U
 rkaine: From Old Practices to New Order" (Studia Socjologiczne, 2021). She
  was also the leading researcher in the project ARDU – The accommodation
  of regional diversity in Ukraine, funded by the Research Council of Norwa
 y (NORRUSS Plus programme).
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