1st Edition
Regionalism without Regions Reconceptualizing Ukraine's Heterogeneity
476 Pages
by
Central European University 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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
