Project - About

Ukraine is vital to understanding processes of postmodernism and globalization taking place in other zones across Europe and the world. As the contradictions and negotiations between local and global issues continue, and as specific cultural traditions are fashioned by these processes, Ukraine becomes an area to explore key artistic and cultural trends.

Throughout the humanities and social sciences, scholarly work has focused on the way globalization and trans-nationalism are altering our concepts of culture. We are living through a break with the era of totally separable societies. The idea of trans-culturalism points towards the new arrangements of people, identities and social practices that are currently emerging, and it belongs to a longer history that needs reinterpretation. As cultural systems of exchange burst former boundaries, people experience both a sense of liberation and anxiety, for the institutions and ways of life that had grounded their definitions of self are challenged. Inequalities among communities, regions and nations, moreover, different people will have unequal power as well as distinct resources when it comes to shaping the trans-cultural future.

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