What Have We Learned about Ethnonational Identities in Ukraine

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ID11047302
AutoresVolodymyr Kulyk (0000-0003-2604-715X, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume51
Fascículo5
Páginas975-990
Data de publicação2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2023.41
OpenAlexW4377233434
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas41

Among various features of Ukrainian society that the world has started paying more attention to since the beginning of Russia’s full-blown invasion in February 2022, many commentators have pointed to a surprisingly strong and encompassing national identity. However, scholars of Ukrainian language and identity matters had for years demonstrated an increased civic attachment of Ukrainian citizens, including Russian speakers, and its greater salience compared with ethnic, linguistic, and regional identifications. This article seeks to highlight the main accomplishments and challenges of research on Ukrainian ethnic and national identity. It focuses on a gradual shift from the essentialist understanding of ethnicity as embodied in bounded groups to the interest in individuals’ contextually determined identifications by categories with a changing meaning. Another prominent part of the analysis is the relationship between Ukrainian ethnic and national identity and the amalgamation of these two apparently distinct phenomena into what I propose to call ethnonational identity

Aesthetics · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Linguistics · National identity · Political science · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Ukrainian · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History