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Articles by Alice Lackner

The study of identities struggles to capture the moments and dynamics of identity change. A crisi... more The study of identities struggles to capture the moments and dynamics of identity change. A crisis moment provides a rare insight into such processes. This paper traces the political identities of the inhabitants of a region at war -the Donbas -on the basis of original survey data that cover the four parts of the population that once made up this region: the population of the Kyivcontrolled Donbas, the population of the self-declared "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic, " the internally displaced, and those who fled to the Russian Federation. The survey data map the parallel processes of a self-reported polarization of identities and the preservation or strengthening of civic identities. Language categories matter for current self-identification, but they are not cast in narrow ethnolinguistic terms, and feeling "more Ukrainian" and Ukrainian citizenship include mono-and bilingual conceptions of native language (i.e. Ukrainian and Russian).

Papers by Alice Lackner

Europe-Asia-Studies, 2020

Based on original survey data, this essay analyses the political attitudes of individuals displac... more Based on original survey data, this essay analyses the political attitudes of individuals displaced by the war in eastern Ukraine. We systematically compare attitudinal differences and similarities along three axes: the displaced relative to the resident population; the displaced in Ukraine relative to the displaced in Russia; and the displaced from the (non-)government-controlled areas relative to the resident population in the (non-)government-controlled areas of Donbas. This fine-grained comparative analysis highlights the variety of attitudes held by the displaced, similarities in attitudes across displacement locations, and the effect of war casualties on attitudes and self-declared political interest.

The study of identities struggles to capture the moments and dynamics of identity change. A crisi... more The study of identities struggles to capture the moments and dynamics of identity change. A crisis moment provides a rare insight into such processes. This paper traces the political identities of the inhabitants of a region at war -the Donbas -on the basis of original survey data that cover the four parts of the population that once made up this region: the population of the Kyivcontrolled Donbas, the population of the self-declared "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic, " the internally displaced, and those who fled to the Russian Federation. The survey data map the parallel processes of a self-reported polarization of identities and the preservation or strengthening of civic identities. Language categories matter for current self-identification, but they are not cast in narrow ethnolinguistic terms, and feeling "more Ukrainian" and Ukrainian citizenship include mono-and bilingual conceptions of native language (i.e. Ukrainian and Russian).

Europe-Asia-Studies, 2020

Based on original survey data, this essay analyses the political attitudes of individuals displac... more Based on original survey data, this essay analyses the political attitudes of individuals displaced by the war in eastern Ukraine. We systematically compare attitudinal differences and similarities along three axes: the displaced relative to the resident population; the displaced in Ukraine relative to the displaced in Russia; and the displaced from the (non-)government-controlled areas relative to the resident population in the (non-)government-controlled areas of Donbas. This fine-grained comparative analysis highlights the variety of attitudes held by the displaced, similarities in attitudes across displacement locations, and the effect of war casualties on attitudes and self-declared political interest.