Ukrainian Sociohumanities of War Times: Challenges, Prospects, Opportunities

Abstract

The aim of the article. Comprehension of latest cognitive situation, which arose in a modern Ukrainian sociohumanities resulted in extreme premises and destructive conditions of war times.

The methodology is based upon strategy of representation and extrapolation of guiding tendencies and prospects for functioning of social and humanistic disciplines during war times.

Scientific novelty. It has been considered a palette of basic challenges and problems for current Ukrainian sociohumanities defined by war with neo-imperial Russia for national and independent sovereignty of Ukraine. It has been accentuated that challenges to humanists and social scientists are aligned with weirdly challenges for the entire Ukraine, though they have their own relevant extents. It has been stressed that priorities of the Ukrainian sociohumanities are linked up, first, to creation of multiform images of warring Ukraine. It has been noted that Ukraine has found itself in the epicenter of catastrophic sociocultural breaks-up of the global world, which for the most part are qualified now in the context of war scenario for starvation of medium and long duration. It has been disclosed that current war has become the result of neo-imperial Putin’s Russia aimed for annihilation of Ukraine as the nation and complete dissolution of Ukrainian identity. It has been established that Russian expansion is antiglobalistic, revanchist and aimed for reformatting of the world order and post-Soviet space delimitation.

Conclusions. The article confirms that full-scale phase of Russo-Ukrainian war resulted in configuration of the newest historical times at the post-Soviet historical spaces, began as long ago as in 2014. Conception is uphold that current Ukrainian sociohumanities has to be focused on development of three main units of interdependent problems: a) creation of adequate scientific palette of fighting Ukraine; b) studying of a place and role of our country in times of the global world system crisis; c) outline of Russo-Ukrainian war nature and temporal metamorphoses of the present.