Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)

Torres-Adán, Ángel

doi:10.1080/1060586x.2021.1924041

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“…After that, we report separate binary logistic regressions for each city to investigate whether travel abroad experience correlates with individual geopolitical preferences, controlling for relevant confounding factors. The use of logistic regression is widespread in studies of geopolitical preferences, in particular with a focus on Ukraine (Gentile 2015;Sasse & Lackner 2018;Torres-Adán 2021a).…”

Section: Logistic Regression To Analyse the Survey Datamentioning

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Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine

Gnatiuk

Mezentsev

Pidgrushnyi

2023

Fennia

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The paper investigates the relationship between travel abroad experience and individual geopolitical preferences in three geopolitical fault-line cities in the eastern part of Ukraine. Employing binary logistic regression as a principal research method, we show that travel experience to European countries positively correlates with pro-European attitudes and corresponds to weaker pro-Soviet sentiments. On the contrary, travel experience to Russia is associated with somewhat weaker support for European geopolitical and cultural integration but stronger pro-Soviet sentiments. Travel experience to Russia is less important predictor of geopolitical preferences than visiting European countries. Pro-European attitudes, compared with pro-Soviet sentiments, are much more interlinked with international travel experience. The data on bilateral travellers evidences that possible effect of visiting European countries basically neutralises the effect of visiting Russia in terms of impact on geopolitical preferences. Although the relationship between travel abroad experience and geopolitical preferences is similar in all three cities under investigation, certain variations between them may be explained by different economic, socio-cultural and institutional background. The revealed correlations seem to cover both direct causal effect of travel abroad on geopolitical preferences and a reverse causality, namely self-selection of destination country according to personal pre-existing geopolitical views. The importance of discovered relationships for the integration of Ukrainian society into European civilization project is apparent not only considering visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union (EU), but also in view of the Russian military invasion in 2022 as a cause of flows of refugees from Ukraine to Europe.

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Section: Logistic Regression To Analyse the Survey Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine

Gnatiuk

Mezentsev

Pidgrushnyi

2023

Fennia

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“…Winners generally are seen as materially well off or wealthy, with higher education levels, while losers are those who struggle with their income and often have lower levels of education (e.g. Brainerd, 1998; Torres-Adán, 2021; Tucker et al, 2002).…”

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Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home

Ķešāne

2024

Cultural Sociology

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Post-Soviet subjects have often been portrayed as ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ of post-Soviet transformations, where those socioeconomically successful are seen as winners while the socioeconomically weak are losers. Such language of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ carry neoliberal scripts of success, which are based on the western upper-middle-class standard. The ideas of neoliberalism also dictated the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia. From the perspective of meaning-making and emotion, this research seeks to complicate the dominant narrative of winners and losers to describe the effects of the post-Soviet transformations. Empirically, this study compares narratives of post-Soviet Latvian émigrés towards the West with those who remain to unravel deeper understandings of success as related to our perceptions of ‘livable life.’ Emigration tends to be narrated as a story of winning since it allows fulfilling expectations and desires for a ‘livable life’ migrants could not fulfill at home. However, those who remain at home, even under precarious circumstances, share their experiences as winners’ stories. While emigrants in their search for ‘livable life’ follow the western standard of good life, those at home speak of ‘livable life’ in terms of modesty. I interpret both stories as empowerment narratives that are interchangeable and coexistent.

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“…During the Russo-Ukrainian war, cities and suburbs became the main foci of military aggression. Different dimensions of urban geopolitics intersect in Ukrainian cities -the clash of different geopolitical preferences in geopolitical fault-line cities, the spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories, everyday geopolitics during the war, the geography of refuge, vertical geopolitics, and definitely urbicide (Fregonese, 2012(Fregonese, , 2019Rokem et al, 2017;Torres-Adán, 2021;Gentile, Kragh, 2022). Ukrainian cities burn in real-time.…”

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War and the city: Lessons from urbicide in Ukraine

Mezentsev¹,

Mezentsev²

2022

Czasopismo Geograficzne

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This article explores urbicide during Europe’s largest ongoing war of the 21st century. Urbicide in Ukraine is not just another story in a long list of well-covered destroyed cities; it has new manifestations and needs to be rethought. Despite the variety of forms and concepts associated with urbicide, it has some common features such as non-selective ness, simultaneous destruction of symbolic and mundane, ordinary places, both physical structures and values, is aimed at ‘killing’ the heterogeneous urbanity for its own sake, and even being carefully planned causes reconfiguration of urban spaces in unexpected ways. The article has three focuses; it concentrates on the extent and causes of direct ur bicide in Ukraine, the relation of urban life under occupation and indirect urbicide, and narratives of (non)return to occupied cities. All these foci are united by the main purpose of the study to understand the urbicide caused by the warfare and global geopolitical changes that are ‘exploding’ (in a literal and relative sense) in Ukraine’s cities. This re search is based on the analysis of semi-structured in-depth interviews, thematic analysis, as well as mapping of warfare and urbicide in Ukraine.

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Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine

Travelling abroad and geopolitical preferences – case of Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mariupol, Ukraine

Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home

War and the city: Lessons from urbicide in Ukraine

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