Description
This volume offers a timely, empirically grounded analysis of how Ukrainian society adapts and transforms under the strain of full-scale war. It reconceptualises resilience not as passive endurance, but as a dynamic process involving individuals, communities, and institutions. Focusing on bottom-up responses, contributors examine how resilience is enacted through local governance, civic activism, youth agency, linguistic identity, and social inclusion.
Based on qualitative and quantitative research – much of it conducted during wartime – the chapters demonstrate how decentralisation, civic engagement, and shifting social attitudes have enabled both resistance and adaptation. While the focus remains on societal responses, the volume also reflects on the methodological and ethical complexities of researching under conditions of war and suggests context-sensitive approaches to studying social resilience amid disruption.
This book is essential reading for scholars of Eastern Europe, conflict and resilience studies, sociology, political science, and governance, as well as for policymakers, NGOs, and practitioners working in crisis contexts.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: About this book. Resilience reframed: Evidence of grassroots transformation in Ukraine’s wartime context.- Chapter 2. Understanding transformations and resilience of Ukrainian society before and during war times.- Chapter 3. General attitudes toward the state in Ukraine: A dynamic indicator of national resilience during the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion.- Chapter 4. Collaborative governance and resilience in Ukraine: Theorising the decentralised crisis response amid the Russian full-scale invasion.- Chapter 5. Resilient hromadas in wartime Ukraine: Pre-war predictors and the role of the decentralisation reform.- Chapter 6. Ukrainian civil society in wartime: Transforming for resistance and strengthening resilience.- Chapter 7. Ukrainian youth in the times of war: Factors of resilience.- Chapter 8. Social inclusion as Ukraine's shield in wartime: Investigating inclusion, exclusion and their link to resilience.- Chapter 9. The sociolinguistics of economic adaptation and resilience in Ukraine between 2014 and 2024.- Chapter 10. Conclusion. Towards a resilient future: Reflections and recommendations.
