Publications
Selected publications
A selection from more than 120 publications, grouped by line of research. For a fuller list, see my ORCID profile.
Culture and power
2013
Cultural mechanisms of power: Concept and types
Introduces cultural mechanisms of power - nomination, classification, legitimation, sacralisation and naturalisation - as a tool for analysing how culture reproduces social hierarchies and inequalities.
Soroka, Y. Visnyk of Odesa National University. Sociology and Political Sciences, 18(3), 130–137. [In Ukrainian]
2012
The native, the strange, the different: A sociocultural perspective on the perception of the Other
Soroka, Y. Monograph. Kharkiv: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. [In Ukrainian]
War and the care economy
2026
The wartime care economy: insights from Ukraine
A feminist political-economy account of how care work is organised, valued and redistributed in wartime.
Prügl, E., Fal-Dutra Santos, A., & Soroka, Y. Review of International Political Economy, 1–27.
Forthcoming
Everyday violence, everyday survival: Towards a feminist political economy of war and (post-)war reconstruction in Ukraine
Extends the care-economy framework to everyday violence and the gendered political economy of (post-)war reconstruction.
Fal-Dutra Santos, A., & Soroka, Y. In K. Krulišová, M. O’Sullivan, & A. T. R. Wibben (Eds.), Re-thinking Feminist Perspectives on War, Peace and (In)Security.
Everyday life under occupation
2025
The beginning of the occupation: The city of Mariupol in media messages
Media narratives of the first stage of the occupation of Mariupol.
Soroka, Y. In V. Sereda (Ed.), War, Migration, Memory: Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine (pp. 193–216). transcript Verlag.
2024
Surviving occupation in Mariupol
Survival strategies during the siege and occupation of Mariupol.
Soroka, Y. In T. Martsenyuk & T. Kostiuchenko (Eds.), War in Ukraine 2022: Personal Experiences of Ukrainian Scholars (pp. 29–54). ibidem-Verlag.
2024
Fleeing the occupation of Mariupol
An autoethnographic account of fleeing occupied Mariupol.
Soroka, Y. Krytyka Feministychna: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies. [In Ukrainian]
Forthcoming
Under Russia’s military occupation: Challenges of representation in Ukraine
The challenges of representing life under occupation to outside audiences.
Soroka, Y. In E. Narvselius, N. Khanenko-Friesen, G. Grinchenko, & A. Doboszewska (Eds.), Witnessing the War against Ukraine: Academic, Activist and Aesthetic Vectors of Reflection. Palgrave Macmillan.
Forthcoming
Everyday life of the occupation: What questions should not be asked of people in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine?
The ethical limits of what researchers can and should ask people living under occupation.
Soroka, Y., & Homanyuk, M. In O. Marmilova & Y. Soroka (Eds.), The Russian War Against Ukraine: Socio-historical Context (2014–2024). Foreword by Ulrich Schmid. ibidem Press.
Gender, diversity and dialogue
2023
Perverts or heroes in the post-socialist “Cold War”: Formula stories of lesbian/bisexual/queer women and transgender people in Ukrainian media
How formula stories in Ukrainian media regulate sexual and gender identity and contribute to social exclusion.
Soroka, Y., Crawley, S. L., Dzyuba, O., & Green, A. Symbolic Interaction, 46(2), 133–158.
2022
Cultural diversity in sociological perspective: Polycultural society, power, dialogue
A sociological conceptualisation of cultural diversity - its methodological, critical and practical sides.
Soroka, Y. Ideology and Politics Journal, 2022(2).
2020
Inclusive capacity of Ukrainian media discourse on Muslims: The results of empirical research
Which media discourses about Muslims open up - or close down - social interaction with this group.
Soroka, Y., & Dziuba, O. Ukrainian Sociological Journal, 23, 46–55. [In Ukrainian]
2019
Dialogue in the perspective of society
Soroka, Y., & Jirous, D. In 5 Years of Dialogue and 25 Years of Mediation in Ukraine (pp. 217–223). OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.
2018
Hate speech from a perspective of the sociology of culture
Conceptualises hate speech as a phenomenon of symbolic space, through the processes of nomination and naturalisation.
Soroka, Y. Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, 3, 26–46. [In Ukrainian]
2016
Hostility towards internally displaced people: Researcher contribution to its formation
Soroka, Y. Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Sociological Studies of Contemporary Society, 37, 125–128.
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