Anti-war Actionism in the Urbanized Space: A Postmodern Approach to Asserting the Value of Peace

• Authors: Nataliia Khoma , Ihor Vdovychyn

Abstracts

EN

This study aims to clarify the role of actionism as a peacebuilding tool, identify the advantages and disadvantages of its various techniques (performance, happening, art installation, flash mob, etc.), and evaluate their effectiveness in the urbanized space. The research methodology is based on postmodernism and its comprehension of activism, public action and protest. Anti-war actionism is considered an element of the system of socio-political actionism. It is characterized as a set of spectacular forms of non-violent public protest against armed aggression and its consequences. The expansion of today’s anti-war actionism beyond the narrow artistic environment and its entrance into the broad social dimension is demonstrated. The empirical basis for the conceptualization of anti-war actionism includes two groups of actions: (1) anti-war actions carried out since the 1960s in the United States and Western Europe; (2) anti-war actions carried out in various countries in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The regional features of anti-war actionism under the conditions of armed conflicts and wars are determined, and the advantages and disadvantages of anti-war actionism as a peacebuilding technology are identified within the space of modern cities.

Keywords

EN

socio-political activism; actionism; anti-war actionism; military aggression; peacebuilding; Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022; urban space

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 90
• Pages: 49-63

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Nataliia Khoma

• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Faculty of Geography, Lviv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000000212109666

author

Ihor Vdovychyn

• Lviv State University of Physical Culture named after Ivan Bobersky, Faculty of Tourism, Lviv, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/000000024472951X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499549005

Biblioteka Nauki

2171523