NEW ELITES, OLD PRACTICES?
NEW ELITES, OLD PRACTICES?

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY’S RULE IN PRE-FULL SCALE-WAR UKRAINE IN RELATION TO PIERRE BOURDIEU’S THEORY OF PRACTICES

Author(s): Oleksandra Iwaniuk
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: political elites; parliamentary elites; Pierre Bourdieu; theory of practices; Volodymyr Zelenskyy; informal practices; Supreme Rada
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses Ukraine’s fields of power, focusing on the informal practices of newly elected (in 2019) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as the parliamentary elites that came to power in the same year, given that the role of the Supreme Rada was supposed to be strengthened after the Maidan revolution. Referring to Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practices, the article attempts to answer the question of whether institutional changes, together with a substantial renewal of political elites, resulted in a change in informal practices and ultimately led to a change in the rules of the game in the public sphere and behind the scenes, or whether the continuity of old ways of coping, time-proven decision-making strategies, and informal hierarchies prevailed even under the new conditions.

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