Nexus of Religion, Ethnicity, and Geopolitics – A Case of Geopolitical Fault-Line Cities in Eastern Ukraine

• Authors: Oleksiy Gnatiuk , Kostyantyn Mezentsev , Grygorii Pidgrushnyi

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores the interrelationships between religious attitudes, ethnic and linguistic identities, and geopolitical preferences in three geopolitical fault-line cities in Eastern Ukraine – Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Dnipro. The research is based on data taken from a survey and the associated descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The findings suggest that the religious divide in Eastern Ukraine does not generate additional division but instead strengthens the existing divide, which is known to be formulated in terms of geopolitical as opposed to language or ethnicity-based categories, although language and ethnicity do have an influence on geopolitical preferences. Moreover, civic-national identity appears to be more relevant than ethnic-national identity to understanding the religious fault-line in Eastern Ukraine.

Keywords

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religious split; geopolitical fault-line cities; identity; ethnicity; geopolitics; Ukraine

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 91
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56-70

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Oleksiy Gnatiuk

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Department of Economic and Social Geography, Kyiv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000318182415

author

Kostyantyn Mezentsev

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Department of Economic and Social Geography, Kyiv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000319747860

author

Grygorii Pidgrushnyi

• National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Geography, Kyiv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000321168366

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499519104

Biblioteka Nauki

2192920