Institute of Sociology NASU

On the war and society in Ukrainian scholarly periodicals in conditions of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (2022–2023)

stmm. 2023 (4): 134-155

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2023.04.134

Full text: http://stmm.in.ua/archive/ukr/2023-4/10.pdf

OLHA IVASHCHENKO, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Structures, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (12, Shovkovychna St., Kyiv, 01021); Associate Professor at the Department of Social Structures and Social Relations, Faculty of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (4D Academician Hlushkov Ave., Kyiv, 03127)

olgivash@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7070-2134

The paper presents a selected review of the most valuable thematic publications in Ukrainian journals for social sciences in view of the emergence and exacerbation of social problems owing to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, such as forced external and internal migration of Ukrainian citizens. A number of related issues are also taken into consideration, such as demographic and gender analysis of displaced persons, prognostic evaluations and social consequences of the greatest migration throughout the post-Soviet history in a comparative perspective. For the first time, special attention is given to the phenomenology of war in sociological and philosophical discourses, as well as to the state and development of Ukrainian sociology during and after the war — with regard to the importance of search for relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, which is shown in articles submitted by both leading and early-career sociologists and philosophers to academic periodicals such as “Ukrainian Society”, “Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing”, “Demography and Social Economy”, “Political Studies”, “Philosophical Thought” and “Grani” (“Facets”).

The paper analyses how the journal issues were prepared and thematically shaped — not only in regard to the intellectual reflection of social science at a critical moment in the country’s history but also as a document “mirroring” the state of Ukrainian society in times of an existential crisis. Not all editorial boards were able to cope with such a challenge and promptly respond to the wartime events; however, the majority of leading scholarly periodicals stoically continued their publishing activities, thereby consolidating the research community and communicating their vision and understanding of military topics to broader professional circles and committed citizens. In this context, a special issue of social monitoring by the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine deserves particular attention. The issue titled “Ukrainian society in wartime. 2022” is a collective monograph consisting of 38 original articles grouped into seven chapters, which consider various aspects of societal life in wartime in terms of the sociology of emergency, for example socio-psychological and socio-economic problems, socio-structural changes, comparative social dynamics before and during the war, as well as adaptive survival and coping strategies in the crisis-ridden society.

Keywords: sociology of emergency, phenomenology of war, forced migration, survival and coping strategies

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Received 18.09.2023