Academic Scientific JournalsCultural and Educational Institutions as Agents of Meaning and Resilience in Wartime Ukraine: a Postmodern Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.26881/jpgs.2025.2.05Keywords:
postmodern society, cultural transformation, psychosocial change, Ukrainian School of Archetypes, World Café methodAbstract
Transformational changes that Ukrainian society has undergone since the collapse of the USSR are fundamentally changing the nature of all social institutions (politics, economics, culture). In the context of this social transition, all social institutions and spheres of public life (including culture) require rethinking based on principles that correspond to the modern postmodern era. In particular, in the new socio-historic conditions, the sphere of culture and its institutions are transforming from an economically-dependent sphere of society into a leading factor in the development of public life.In order to confirm or refute this hypothesis, within the framework of the archetypal methodology, approaches and understanding of the founder and followers of analytical psychology of the Swiss C.G. Jung, the ideas of other postmodernists, as well as the results of monitoring studies of psychosocial (societal) changes in Ukrainian society (1992–2025), on June 13, 2025, together with the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Zhytomyr Regional Administration, Serhiy Korolev National Museum of Cosmonautics and with the participation of representatives of institutions and organizations in the sphere of culture of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, using the American methodology “World Cafe,” the authors of the article conducted a search quest called “The Mission of Culture in the Modern Postmodern World and in Ukraine.”
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