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Language and Identity in Ukraine: Was it Really Nation-Building?
Abstract "After the collapse of three socialist federations in Eastern Europe, the expression ‘nation-building’ returned
to the heart of academic debates. Like other former socialist republics, Ukraine has started its nationbuilding
project trying to balance between a limitation of centrifugal forces and t... view more
"After the collapse of three socialist federations in Eastern Europe, the expression ‘nation-building’ returned
to the heart of academic debates. Like other former socialist republics, Ukraine has started its nationbuilding
project trying to balance between a limitation of centrifugal forces and the ‘nationalisation’
(Brubaker 1994) of the state. This article examines the main features of language policies within the
Ukrainian nation-building project and adopts a dual approach. It fi rst surveys the political will that
has been incarnated in language policies since 1991, and how national identity has been aff ected by
those policies. However, it counterpoises this approach with an analysis of bottom actors and their
attitude towards language policies. The framework constructed is intended to question the idea that
nation-building is mainly an elite driven process and to suggest that common people can participate in
a political project by renegotiating its features at the local level." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
nationalism; state formation; Ukraine; identity; language
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 36-50
Journal
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 3 (2011) 3
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications