The Social Space of the Borderland: Identities Crises in the Coordinates of Modern Challenges
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2022.06.173Keywords:
Russo-Ukrainian war, border society, socio-cultural space, identity conflict, cross-borderAbstract
The purpose of the article is to highlight the crisis parameters of the development of the border society in the conditions of modern challenges associated with the Russo-Ukrainian war and the study of the influence of the multidimensional cross-border space on the formation and functioning of hybrid identity, algorithms for the formation of specific identification models of coexistence in border social spaces, variable local and regional cultural practices.
Scientific approaches. The phenomenon of the border society did not occupy a prominent place in the humanitarian discourse for quite a long time, the combination of globalization processes with the phenomena of regionalization in areas adjacent to the borders and the application of the methodology of “cross-stories”, geopolitical, geocultural and network approaches in their research made it a fashionable brand.
The scientific novelty of the study of the social space of the border is determined by its consideration in the context of cross-border social networks, in which the “intersection” of various socio-cultural markers, identification matrices, behavioral stereotypes occurs and the transformation of local values, meanings and symbols is observed.
The main conclusion. The local society of the border region is characterized by the presence of powerful conflict-causing factors of socio-cultural development, the multi-vector nature of cultural codes and the hybridity of identifications, the emergence of specific interpretations of social reality. Any border society, despite the additional opportunities that are due to easy crossing of the border, is a zone of increased social mobility and corresponding identification risks. And this means that without thorough scientific research and analytical monitoring of the processes taking place in border areas, it is impossible to find out the origins and consequences of the exacerbation of social problems abroad, to generate new identification strategies aimed at supporting socio-cultural stability and the formation of a sustainable identity. Modern challenges related to the military confrontation between Ukraine and Russia require a careful study of the influence of border states on the processes of hybrid identity formation and awareness of the risk-genic specificity of the ukrainian-russian border society, which, being at the intersection of civilizational borders, has its own logic of development, burdened with a powerful conflict potential.
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