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Bearing War and Building Peace? Ukrainian Civilians' Everyday Peace Against the Language Severance Amidst War

Nilsson, Albin LU (2025) FKVK02 20251
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Ukraine is a war-torn society polarised by language, among other things. Examining Ukrainian civilians through the scope of everyday peace, a post-liberal local agency is given to people whose identity is threatened. This thesis researches everyday peace across the Ukrainian language divide during war to determine how the war impacts everyday actions, explanations, and the applicability of the theory on interstate wars. The research question is: How do Ukrainian civilians navigate polarised language through everyday peace during war? After conducting eight semi-structured in-depth interviews, they were transcribed and coded according to everyday peace theory. Further analysed by narrative method, recognising burdened, scripted, and... (More)
Ukraine is a war-torn society polarised by language, among other things. Examining Ukrainian civilians through the scope of everyday peace, a post-liberal local agency is given to people whose identity is threatened. This thesis researches everyday peace across the Ukrainian language divide during war to determine how the war impacts everyday actions, explanations, and the applicability of the theory on interstate wars. The research question is: How do Ukrainian civilians navigate polarised language through everyday peace during war? After conducting eight semi-structured in-depth interviews, they were transcribed and coded according to everyday peace theory. Further analysed by narrative method, recognising burdened, scripted, and transformative narrative agency as focus points for explanations. Abductive reasoning gave results of moderate everyday peace, heavily dependent on contexts of war, trauma brought on by it, societal discourse and Ukrainian determination to transform for peace. This research contributes to the testing of everyday peace across new contexts as well as giving Ukrainians agency and a voice in an oppressive war within an academic field where perspectives of peace are particularly rare. (Less)
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author
Nilsson, Albin LU
supervisor
organization
course
FKVK02 20251
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Everyday Peace, War in Ukraine, Language during War, Sociality, Reciprocity, Solidarity, Hybridity and Local Turn, Semi-Structured Interviews, Narrative method, Abductive Reasoning
language
English
id
9191177
date added to LUP
2025-08-08 11:24:11
date last changed
2025-08-08 11:24:11
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  abstract     = {{Ukraine is a war-torn society polarised by language, among other things. Examining Ukrainian civilians through the scope of everyday peace, a post-liberal local agency is given to people whose identity is threatened. This thesis researches everyday peace across the Ukrainian language divide during war to determine how the war impacts everyday actions, explanations, and the applicability of the theory on interstate wars. The research question is: How do Ukrainian civilians navigate polarised language through everyday peace during war? After conducting eight semi-structured in-depth interviews, they were transcribed and coded according to everyday peace theory. Further analysed by narrative method, recognising burdened, scripted, and transformative narrative agency as focus points for explanations. Abductive reasoning gave results of moderate everyday peace, heavily dependent on contexts of war, trauma brought on by it, societal discourse and Ukrainian determination to transform for peace. This research contributes to the testing of everyday peace across new contexts as well as giving Ukrainians agency and a voice in an oppressive war within an academic field where perspectives of peace are particularly rare.}},
  author       = {{Nilsson, Albin}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Bearing War and Building Peace? Ukrainian Civilians' Everyday Peace Against the Language Severance Amidst War}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}