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Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience in Ukraine

Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience in Ukraine

Author: Elmira Muratova; Nadia Zasanska
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032730639
Published In: November 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This collection focuses on Ukraine’s ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour. The book examines the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine, which began with the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas in 2014. It shows what happens to the cultural identities of minority groups and considers the mechanisms and components of their resilience in times of crisis. Key themes addressed include minorities’ collective memory and survival strategies, mobilization and humanitarianism, forced displacement and the preservation of identity. While most works on the Russo-Ukrainian war focus on the international context and the causes of the war and its humanitarian consequences for the population of Ukraine and the region as a whole, this book seeks to mainstream the issue of cultural minorities, which is often neglected in the coverage of this type of conflict.

The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Human Geography, Religious Studies and War and Peace Studies.

Foreword: exploring how and why minorities shape the majority (Catherine Wanner)

1. Introduction. Ethno-cultural minority identities at war in Ukraine and beyond (Kyriaki Topidi)

PART I: Minority politics, language, and identity during the war.

2. National minorities in Ukraine: contextualizing challenges and searching for policy solutions (Olena Bohdan and Viktoriya Sereda)

3. Majority-minority relations in Ukraine: state minority politics in a changed security context (Kateryna Haertel)

PART II: Collective memory and minorities’ coping strategies.

4. Collective memory, Islam, and coping strategies of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea (Elmira Muratova)

5. Public discourses connected to the Russian war in Ukraine: the representation of Jewish communities (Alla Marchenko)

6. Shia Muslims of Ukraine during the Russian invasion (Akif Tahiiev)

PART III: Mobilization, resilience, and humanitarianism

7. Muslim organizations in Ukraine and the challenges of wartime: moderation, mobilization, and resilience (Oleg Yarosh)

8. Mobilizing Christian emotions: everyday ethnicity and resiliency in a Transcarpathian Hungarian NGO (Marc Roscoe Loustau)

9. The Ukrainian national minority and forced migrants in Poland: the case of Przemysl (Tomasz Kosiek)

10. Going beyond regional: the Greek Catholic Church as a communicator of dignity during the Russo-Ukrainian war (Nadia Zasanska)

PART IV: Displacement and identity preservation during the war

11. Exodus of the Hungarian minority from Ukraine? War-induced ethnic dynamics in the Ukrainian-Hungarian border region (Ágnes Erőss, Katalin Kovály, and Patrik Tátrai)

12. Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in time of uncertainty: changes in civic, ethnic, and religious identification (Mykola Homanyuk and Hasan Basri Bülbül)

13. Ukrainian Roma facing the challenges of the Russian-Ukrainian war and displacement (Valentyn Zharonkin, Janush Panchenko, and Mykola Homanyuk)

14. Concluding remarks (Elmira Muratova and Nadia Zasanska)