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The Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-cultural Diversity in Ukraine

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Editors:
  1. Aadne Aasland

    1. NIBR, OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Sabine Kropp

    1. Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Considers different aspects of the accommodation of Ukraine’s ethno-cultural and regional diversity
  • Is situated in an increasingly established area of the study of diversity management
  • Integrates various disciplines, including political science, international relations, law, and sociology

Part of the book series: Federalism and Internal Conflicts (FEINCO)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Political Reforms in Ukraine and Their Effects on Social Cohesion—A Conceptualization

    • Sabine Kropp, Aadne Aasland
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Regional Diversity of Ukraine: Can Federalization Be Achieved?

    • Jørn Holm-Hansen, Sabine Kropp
    Pages 23-51

  4. A Triadic Nexus Conflict? Ukraine’s Nationalizing Policies, Russia’s Homeland Nationalism, and the Dynamics of Escalation in 2014–2019

    • Kostiantyn Fedorenko, Andreas Umland
    Pages 53-82

  5. Regulating Minority Languages in Ukraine’s Educational System: Debate, Legal Framework and Implementation

    • Maryna Rabinovych, Mikkel Berg-Nordlie
    Pages 83-110

  6. The Discourse of Moderation and Cohesion as an Effective Electoral Tool: Sluha Narodu in Ukraine’s 2019 Parliamentary Campaign

    • Artëm Lytovchenko, Dmitriy Boiko, Daria Yashkina, Jørn Holm-Hansen
    Pages 111-141

  7. Decentralization, Social Cohesion and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Ukraine’s Border Regions

    • Aadne Aasland, Olga Filippova, Oleksandra Deineko, Ruslan Zaporozhchenko
    Pages 143-170

  8. Educational Reform and Language Policy in Ukraine: Implementation in the Border Regions

    • Marthe HandÃ¥ Myhre, Olena Muradyan, Oksana Nekhaienko
    Pages 171-209

  9. The Politics of Identity in Ukrainian Border Regions

    • Olga Filippova, Oleksandra Deineko
    Pages 211-236

  10. Citizens’ perspectives: Reform and social cohesion in Ukraine’s border regions

    • Aadne Aasland, Oleksandra Deineko, Olga Filippova, Sabine Kropp
    Pages 237-272
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About this book

The book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups. While the individual chapters each focus on one or a few facets of the overall research question, together they draw a nuanced picture of the multifaceted challenges to creating and consolidating social cohesion in a nationalizing state. The concept integrates various disciplines, including political science, international relations, law, and sociology. Correspondingly, the contributions are based on various methodological approaches, ranging from legal analysis over media discourse analysis, individual and focus group interviews to analysis of data from a representative population survey. The findings of the in-depth study are discussed within the broader context of comparative research on diversity management and social cohesion in fragmented societies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • NIBR, OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

    Aadne Aasland

  • Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Sabine Kropp

About the editors

Aadne Aasland is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He has conducted research on local government reform in Ukraine since 2008 and is leader of the ARDU project: Accommodation of Regional Diversity in Ukraine. He has a large number of refereed publications on social and political developments in post-Soviet countries. His recent publications include the book Governance in Russian Regions (co-edited with S. Kropp et al., 2018).

Sabine Kropp is Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research areas include comparative federalism, public administration, and parliamentary studies, with a focus on the political system of Germany and East European politics, particularly in the post-Soviet space. She has conducted several projects on Russian decentralization, Russian regional politics, and German federalism. She published extensively on theseissues, including the book Governance in Russian Regions (co-edited with A. Aasland et al., 2018).


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