Evolution of collaborationism in the temporarily occupied south of Ukraine in the years 2022–2024

Abstract

This article is dedicated to exploring the evolutionary processes within the environment of collaborators - local residents who voluntarily and proactively cooperate with Russian aggressors in the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine. The study addresses both theoretical (to elucidate changes in collaborationism as a complex of social practices) and practical (to compile a sociodemographic and psychographic profile of enemy collaborators) aspects. Based on contemporary theoretical concepts and empirical data, conduct a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of collaborationism in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions during the years 2022-2024. The authors rely on functionalist (M. Gechter and M. Vidal-Ansari), identification (V. Chachava), resource-adaptation (V. Horobets) approaches to defining collaborationism, as well as P. Sorokin's ideas regarding the peculiarities of social mobility during periods of political turbulence.