UID:
almahu_9949293412302882
Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
ISBN:
9783030809713
Series Statement:
Federalism and Internal Conflicts Ser.
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Political Reforms in Ukraine and Their Effects on Social Cohesion-A Conceptualization -- Reform Politics and Regional Diversity -- The Explanandum: Social Cohesion in Ukrainian Border Regions -- Balancing Reform Policies in Border Regions with Blurred Identities -- Territorial Politics -- Identity Politics: Education and Language Reforms -- Party Politics -- The Geopolitical Context as a 'Triadic Nexus' -- Accommodating Regional and Ethno-cultural Diversity in Ukraine: Lessons for Comparative Research on Social Cohesion -- 2 The Regional Diversity of Ukraine: Can Federalization Be Achieved? -- Introduction -- Accommodation of Diverse Societies and Federalization: Theoretical Arguments -- Federal Society -- The Paradox of Federalism -- Triadic Nationalism -- The Issue of 'Partial' Federalization and Federal Practices -- Prerequisites for Federalizing Ukraine -- Ukraine's Regional Diversity -- Fixed or Fluid Ethno-Linguistic Diversity -- The Historical Roots of Ukraine's Regional Diversity -- Unitarianism Versus Federalism in the Ukrainian Debate-The 'Path Dependency' Argument -- The Weak Roots of Federalism in Ukraine -- Unitarianism Versus Federalism in Ukraine Since 1991 -- Decentralization Reforms as a Means of Averting Federalism -- Cross-Cutting Political Conflict Lines and the Role of Political Parties: Federal Practices? -- Problems of Securitization and the 'Triadic Nexus' -- Fears of Irredentism and Undue Influence from Russia -- Autonomy for Territories in the Donbas as a 'federal' Component? -- Concluding Discussion -- 3 A Triadic Nexus Conflict? Ukraine's Nationalizing Policies, Russia's Homeland Nationalism, and the Dynamics of Escalation in 2014-2019 -- Introduction -- Memory Politics and 'De-communization' -- Russian Reactions.
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Education and Language -- Background -- Russian Reactions -- Interpreting the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Historical Context -- Further Deliberations on the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict -- 4 Regulating Minority Languages in Ukraine's Educational System: Debate, Legal Framework and Implementation -- Introduction -- Media Discourse Analysis of the Language-In-Education Issue in Ukraine -- UkrSSR Law 'On Languages in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic' (1989-2012) -- The Ukrainian Law 'On Principles of the State Language Policy' (2012-2018) -- Content of the Law -- Media Discourses -- Effects in Educational Domain: Revoking of the 2012 Law by the Constitutional Court -- Ukrainian Laws 'On Education' (2017-), 'On Supporting the Functioning of Ukrainian as the State Language' (2019-) -- Content of Legal Regulations -- 2019 Language Law and 2017 Law on Education in Media -- Venice Commission's Analyses of the New Language and Education Legislation, and Responses from the Ukrainian Authorities -- Conclusions -- 5 The Discourse of Moderation and Cohesion as an Effective Electoral Tool: Sluha Narodu in Ukraine's 2019 Parliamentary Campaign -- Introduction -- Theory -- Political Cleavages -- Political Parties -- Ukraine's Cleavages and Political Parties -- Ukraine's Political Parties in the 2019 Parliamentary Elections -- Rhetorical Manoeuvring Before the 2019 Parliamentary Electoral Campaign -- Methodology Applied in the Discourse Analysis -- The Material Selected for Analysis -- Analytical Procedure -- Empirical Data Analysis -- Thematic Frame: Information About the Electoral Campaign -- Thematic Frame: The Fight Against Misinformation and Smear Campaigns -- Thematic Frame: Electoral Procedure -- Complementary Image-Building -- Explaining Sluha Narodu's Electoral Success -- Conclusions.
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6 Decentralization, Social Cohesion and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Ukraine's Border Regions -- Introduction -- Ukrainian Decentralization Reform: A Snapshot -- Theory: Links Between Decentralization, Social Cohesion and Ethno-Cultural Diversity -- Data, Methods and Case Study Sites -- Data and Methods -- The case regions Kharkiv and Chernivtsi -- Empirical Findings -- Decisions on Amalgamation: Economic and Infrastructural Concerns in Focus -- Social Cohesion After Amalgamation: New Arenas of Participation -- Few Effects of Amalgamation on Ethno-cultural Relations -- Similarities and Differences Between the Two Regions -- Concluding Discussion -- 7 Educational Reform and Language Policy in Ukraine: Implementation in the Border Regions -- Introduction -- Brubaker's 'Triadic Nexus'? -- Perceptions of Legal Changes in Two Border Regions: Methods and Recruitment -- Language of Instruction in Ukrainian Primary and Secondary Education -- the 2017 Law on Education and Its Language Clause -- Tracing the Effects of the Education Act in Two Regions -- Status of Ukrainian Among National Minorities -- Parents as Customers of Educational Services -- The Language Clause: Perceptions of Language, Identity and Belonging -- Intentions of the Authorities and the Undisputed State Language -- A 'Hierarchy' of Languages -- Implications of the New Language Provision: Concluding Discussion -- Appendices -- Table of schools -- List of interviewees -- List of focus group participants -- 8 The Politics of Identity in Ukrainian Border Regions -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Politics of Identity: Operationalization of the Concept -- Legitimizing, Resistance and Project Identities -- Channels and Instruments of Legitimized Politics of Identity -- Education as a Channel of Identity Politics -- Language as an Instrument of Identity Politics.
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Data, Methods and Two Research Cases -- Two Research Cases: Brief Context -- Empirical Findings -- From Accepting to Resistance: Strengthening the Role of Non-Legitimized Actors of Politics of Identity -- Romania as a Border State: From Attract-Factors to the 'discourse of Comparison' as Elements of the Politics of Identity of a Supranational Actor -- The Russian Language is not the Russian Authorities: Between the Images of 'language of the Enemy' and the 'discriminated Language' -- Concluding Discussion -- 9 Citizens' perspectives: Reform and social cohesion in Ukraine's border regions -- Introduction -- Social Cohesion in Ukrainian Border Regions: How Can It Be Measured? -- Data and Methodology -- Attitudes Towards the Decentralization Reform -- Attitudes Towards Language of Instruction in Ukrainian Schools -- Social Cohesion in the Border Regions -- Visual Presentation of Relations Between Social Cohesion Indicators -- Concluding Discussion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Aasland, Aadne The Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Ukraine Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 ISBN 9783030809706
Language:
English
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