The “Maidan spirit” has brought tangible results in fighting corruption and securing a system of access to popularly elected institutions. Since the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Ukrainian civil society has played an ever more important role in supporting Ukraine’s armed forces and resisting Russian intrusion.
Society has proven itself to be remarkably resilient, although networks of social identification and access to material resources are under severe pressures. Tetiana Kostiuchenko will address these issues, with a specific focus on two main questions:
- What the ground for the evolving of resilient social capital and network structures during radical societal changes is (with focus on interpersonal trust).
- How that kind of social capital is transforming and what consequences it brings on the micro level, on community level, and on macro level.
Dr. Tetiana Kostiuchenko is PhD in Sociology (Social Institutions and Social and Relations), and Senior Lecturer at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). In 2023/24, she is Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany), and holds a fellowship at Leuphana University in Luneburg (Germany). Among her research focal points are policy networks and power elites in Eastern European states, and the study of post-Socialist societies undergoing transformations.
Doctoral Research Fellow Anna Chebotarova will serve as a panel discussant after the lecture, and the talk will be moderated by Professor Geir Flikke.
Open to all. Welcome!
The lecture takes place in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library in Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern.