Dichotómia medzi občianstvom a národnosťou: Úvaha o skúsenosti z formovania ukrajinského národa
Dichotomies between Citizenship and Nationality: Reflections from the Ukrainian Nation Building Experience

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after gaining independence Ukraine started a nation-building project that could be considered fairly inclusive. In the hope to boost a national identity, it granted citizenship to all those living on its soil in 1991 so to positively impact the feeling of belonging to a "people of Ukraine" (as counter-posed to the "Ukrainian people". With citizenship as a prerequisite, the nation-building project was intended to match the nation with the state in order to make all Ukrainian citizens part of the Ukrainian nation, intended in civic terms. This paper distinguishes itself from the literature on nation-building by two interpretative frameworks. First, it complicates the discourse on nation-building by showing that the effect of nation-building policies on citizens is not as direct as literature suggests. By doing so, it questions the nature of nation-building as an elite-driven process and suggests that people have a major role in the renegotiation of a nation-building project.

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