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Book SynopsisSocial Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region focuses on the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural framework in the Black Sea region. Building on the path-dependency approach, the volume goes beyond the classical cultural blocks’ paradigm, showing how the common inheritance interferes with different religious and political institutional backgrounds, fostering the formation of a particular cultural area. The interdisciplinary approach combines contributions from the domains of sociology, political science, international relations, and security studies and employs qualitative and quantitative analyses, the last ones relying on large-scale survey evidence coming from the World Values Survey, the European Values Study, and the European Social Survey.
The analysis of the empirical data allows contributors to examine the change of social values and identities over the past three decades. Although there is no declared common social identity, the comprehensive investigation of social, political, moral, and religious values, identities, and beliefs concludes the presence of shared domains and trends that provide reasoning to consider the Black Sea region a cultural area. The matter is of great importance, especially in the context of the open military conflict in Ukraine and other frozen conflicts in the region. Common culture, relying not only on the shared values or strong identities, but also in customs, material objects, or daily life practices and strategies may help in finding peaceful solutions to the existing conflicts.
Trade Review"This exciting book fills in a conclusive way a gap in the value literature, the study of social values and identities in the Black Sea region. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to unveil different economic, cultural, and societal similarities but also cross-country differences in the region. It is an excellent and invaluable resource for students and scholars alike studying culture, identity, and values."
-- Eldad Davidov, University of Cologne
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Malina Voicu, Marian Zulean, Kseniya Kizilova
Part I. History, Geopolitics, and Security in the Black Sea Area
Chapter 1. Black Sea Region in the Social Science and Humanities Literature
Marian Zulean
Chapter 2. Regionalism, Regionalization, and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Paul Dragos Aligica, Marcela Tusca
Chapter 3. Transitional Justice around the Black Sea: Unfulfilled Promises, Divergent Goals, and Missed Opportunities
Lavinia Stan
Part II. Political Culture and Identities in the Black Sea Area
Chapter 4. Frontiers of National Identities in the Black Sea Countries: People’s Views on their Ethnic, Civic, Local, and Regional Ties
Horațiu M. Rusu
Chapter 5. Political Culture: Trust and Regime Support in the Black Sea Region
Kseniya Kizilova, Christian Haerpfer
Chapter 6. Demand for Populism in the Black Sea Region: A Cultural Values Approach to Populist Politics
Yilmaz Esmer, Duygu Karadon
Part III. Cultural Values and Norms in the Black Sea Area
Chapter 7. Religious Change in the Black Sea Area: The History of the Path-Dependent Secularization
Malina Voicu, Simona Maria Stanescu
Chapter 8. Morality and Moral Change in the Black Sea Region: A Longitudinal Perspective with a Special Focus on Romania, Russia, and Turkey
Hermann Dülmer
Chapter 9. Gender Norms and Values in the Black Sea Region
Vera Lomazzi
Chapter 10. (In)Tolerance in the Black Sea Region
Anna Almakaeva, Igor Chervinsky, Natalia Mikhailova
Part IV. Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region: National Case-Studies
Chapter 11. Identity and Geopolitical Vector of Georgia
Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Elene Kvanchilashvili
Chapter 12. National Securitization against Cultural Diversity in Turkey: Relevant Data in the World Values Survey and What Lies Beyond
Dragoş C. Mateescu
Chapter 13. Support for Democracy in Ukraine
Nataliya Reshetova, Malina Voicu
Conclusion
Kseniya Kizilova, Malina Voicu
About the Contributors
