Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity

Myshlovska, Oksana; Schmid, Ulrich (eds.) (2019). Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity. Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe. Budapest: CEU Press

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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 aim 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—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.

Item Type:	Book (Edited Volume)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History
UniBE Contributor:	Myshlovska, Oksana
Subjects:	200 Religion 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 900 History
ISBN:	978-963-7326-63-9
Series:	Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe
Publisher:	CEU Press
Language:	English
Submitter:	Oksana Myshlovska
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2021 10:23
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:50
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/155645