Reexamining Region, Ethnicity, and Language in Ukraine

Barrington, Lowell W.; Faranda, Regina

doi:10.2747/1060-586x.24.3.232

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“…First, most of the pioneering studies have been more focused on sorting out the effects of "region" from those of ethnicity than they have been on disentangling different dimensions of ethnicity from each other. The conclusion has consistently been that living in a given region has distinct implications on behavior that cannot be accounted for by ethnic difference (Birch 2000;Kubicek 2000;Barrington 2002;Barrington and Herron 2004;Clem and Craumer 2005;Barrington and Faranda 2009;D'Anieri 2011;Osipian and Osipian 2012). Since this finding is now rather uncontroversial, our study does not enjoin the "regions" debate in Ukraine, instead following Kulyk (2011) in training the microscope more directly on the possible differential effects of different dimensions of ethnicity.…”

Section: Untangling Ethnicity's Effects In Ukraine Using Survey Datamentioning

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“…1 Survey research would seem to be particularly useful for this endeavor because samples can be designed to be representative of the country as a whole (providing strong grounding for claims about nationwide patterns) and because the resulting data reflect what Ukrainians themselves actually say in response to questions specifically designed to study ethnicity and its effects. 2 The pioneering work has been done, however, by only a handful of scholars, perhaps most prominently Kulyk (Kulyk 2011(Kulyk , 2013, Barrington and his co-authors (Barrington 2002;Barrington and Herron 2004;Barrington andFaranda 2009), andShulman (2005).…”

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“…3 But the measures these studies use to capture "language" differ greatly across studies. To take some of the most prominent works as examples, Barrington (2002) codes respondents' language as the one that the interviewer noticed them mainly using during the survey, Barrington andFaranda (2009) andShulman (2005) use the language that respondents say they speak most often at home, while Kulyk (2011) employs both a measure of usual language practice (described as the language of "everyday use") and an indicator capturing the language respondents say is their native tongue.…”

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Capturing ethnicity: the case of Ukraine

Onuch

Hale

2018

Post-Soviet Affairs

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Building on past survey-based studies of ethnic identity, we employ the case of Ukraine to demonstrate the importance of taking seriously the multidimensionality of ethnicity, even in a country that is regarded as deeply divided. Drawing on relational theory, we identify four dimensions of ethnicity that are each important in distinctive ways in Ukraine: individual language preference, language embeddedness, ethnolinguistic identity, and nationality. Using original survey data collected in May 2014, we show that the choice of one over the other can be highly consequential for the conclusions one draws about ethnicity's role in shaping attitudes (e.g., to NATO membership), actions (e.g., participation in the Euromaidan protests), and the anticipation of outgroups' behavior (e.g., expectations of a Russian invasion). Moreover, we call attention to the importance of including the right control variables for precisely interpreting any posited effects of ethnicity, making specific recommendations for future survey research on ethnic identity in Ukraine.

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Section: Untangling Ethnicity's Effects In Ukraine Using Survey Datamentioning

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Capturing ethnicity: the case of Ukraine

Onuch

Hale

2018

Post-Soviet Affairs

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“…Regional differences : HIV prevalence and drug use in Ukraine have been shown to differ geographically in prisons (Azbel et al, 2013) and communities (Zaller et al, 2014), and we expected to see regional differences in attitudes, especially between west and east—the regions that have been shown to substantially differ across a multitude of socio-cultural domains (Barrington and Faranda, 2009). …”

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Challenges to implementing opioid substitution therapy in Ukrainian prisons: Personnel attitudes toward addiction, treatment, and people with HIV/AIDS

Polonsky

Azbel

Wickersham

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background Ukraine is experiencing one of the most volatile HIV epidemics globally, fueled primarily by people who inject drugs (PWIDs), and a parallel incarceration epidemic. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is internationally recognized as one of the most effective forms of treatment for opioid dependence and is among the most effective HIV prevention strategies available, yet efforts to adopt it in Ukraine’s Criminal Justice System (CJS) have been thwarted. Methods To understand the reluctance of the Ukrainian CJS to adopt OST despite the overwhelming evidence pointing to its health benefits and improved criminal justice outcomes, we conducted the first survey of Ukrainian prison administrative, medical and custodial staff (N=243) attitudes towards addiction in general, OST, and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in representative regions of Ukraine. Results Results revealed that Ukrainian CJS workers’ attitudes toward OST, PLWHA, and drug addiction were universally negative, but differed substantially along geographic and occupational lines. Whereas geographic and cultural proximity to the European Union drove positive attitudes in the west, in the southern region we observed an identifiability effect, as workers who worked directly with prisoners held the most positive attitudes. We also found that knowledge mediated the effect of drug intolerance on OST attitudes. Conclusion In Ukraine, adoption of OST is more influenced by ideological biases and prejudices than by existing scientific evidence. By elucidating existing attitudes among CJS personnel, this assessment will help direct subsequent interventions to address the barriers to implementing evidence-based HIV prevention treatments.

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“…Even though Barrington and Faranda (2009) made a good case for not including attitudinal variables in this kind of research (they found that the basicslanguage, region, ethnicity, and religion -largely explain pro-Russian preferences in Ukraine), the very recent "discourse" shift in Moscow justifies testing attitudes toward (or rather, against) homosexuality as a measure of the success of Putin's export of "traditional Russian values" to the Donbas. However, because the population is very conservative overall, the variable is dichotomized so as to compare the most extreme homophobes -that is, those who answered "1" on the 1 -10 negative-positive scale (alas, the vast majority) -to the rest.…”

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West oriented in the East-oriented Donbas: a political stratigraphy of geopolitical identity in Luhansk, Ukraine

Gentile

2015

Post-Soviet Affairs

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Building on data from a survey (n ¼ 4000) conducted in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk in late 2013, this article explores the link between national identity and foreign policy preferences in the Donbas, suggesting that they are increasingly conflated in distinct geopolitical identities. Descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression are used to compare the characteristics of pro-West and uncertain individuals with those of the pro-Russian/Soviet individuals, with preferences on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and European Union (EU) accession underlying this distinction. The results show that geopolitical identities in Luhansk have a complex political stratigraphy that includes demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, and attitudinal components. The pro-West constituency is younger, not Russian but often including members of other ethnic groups, well educated, more tolerant toward sexual minorities, generally more satisfied with life, and it also speaks better English. Conversely, those with pro-Russia/Soviet geopolitical identities are older, Russian, low educated, less fluent in English, intolerant, and unsatisfied with their lives. Uncertainty is more randomly distributed among social groups, indicating different underlying causes related to the source of the respondents' uncertainty.

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Reexamining Region, Ethnicity, and Language in Ukraine

Cited by 46 publications

References 34 publications

Capturing ethnicity: the case of Ukraine

Capturing ethnicity: the case of Ukraine

Challenges to implementing opioid substitution therapy in Ukrainian prisons: Personnel attitudes toward addiction, treatment, and people with HIV/AIDS

West oriented in the East-oriented Donbas: a political stratigraphy of geopolitical identity in Luhansk, Ukraine

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