CULTURAL-CREATING RESILIENCE AS A NEW CULTURAL PARADIGM

Abstract

The article substantiates the concept of cultural-creating resilience as a new cultural paradigm emerging in response to the challenges of the present era – war, crises, hybrid threats, and the rupture of cultural traditions. At the same time, this paradigm reflects ways of recovery and meaning-making under conditions of civilizational transformation. It interprets the capacity of culture for renewal and its creative potential as key mechanisms for preservation and development. The article demonstrates that under conditions of instability, traditional models of cultural interpretation lose their explanatory power, increasing the demand for research approaches focused on cultural flexibility and subjectivity. The methodological framework is based on an interdisciplinary combination of cultural, systemic, and hermeneutic approaches, as well as the use of comparative and linguistic (particularly phonetic and orthographic) analysis. Considering the existence of various culturally and linguistically shaped versions of the term – English, French, and others – the choice of the transcription “resilience” (“rezyl’yens”) is justified as a way to enhance phonetic accuracy and semantic clarity. The emphasis is placed not on “resilience” as a static condition, but on a dynamic process of flexible adaptation, transformation, and recovery after crises, traumatic experiences, or radical changes in the sociocultural environment. The article highlights the importance of aligning the Ukrainian transcription with international phonetic standards as a conscious cultural-semantic strategy aimed at the decolonization of scholarly discourse and the formation of a Ukrainocentric terminological paradigm. A clear distinction is drawn between the definitions of “resilience” and “resistance”, which in the cultural context correspond to different models of response to challenges. While “resistance” implies the preservation and protection of identity through rigid opposition to external influences, “resilience” refers to recovery through transformation, the creation of new cultural forms based on lived experience. Both mechanisms are important for cultural survival; however, resilience opens space for creativity, dialogue, and development, thus becoming the central concept of the author’s vision of cultural change within the modern cultural and arts-educational environment. Cultural-creating resilience is conceptualized as a multidimensional phenomenon integrating existential, creative, social, identificational, and pedagogical dimensions. Special attention is given to the author’s interpretation of creative resilience as the ability to regenerate and form identity through creative action, particularly in the context of the modern Ukrainian arts-educational space, which is viewed as a dynamic cultural environment. The role of art and arts education is emphasized as a tool for meaning-making and modeling action under conditions of crisis. The proposed conceptualization of cultural-creating resilience expands the analytical tools of cultural studies, opening new perspectives for understanding processes of adaptation, creative renewal, and transformation of culture in times of crisis and turbulence. The concept presented in the article is the author’s original development, laying the foundation for further elaboration in the dissertation research devoted to the transformation of Ukraine’s contemporary arts-educational space.