THE PROBLEM SPACE OF UKRAINIAN CULTUROLOGY
Authors:   Mariupol State University, Sabadash Ju. 
Published: September 2023

Among a number of humanitarian sciences, cultural studies is one of those that are actively developing in the field of Ukrainian humanities. The term "actively" used by us reflects both monographic studies, educational literature, publications in periodicals, collections of proceedings of scientific-theoretical and scientific-practical conferences, the issues of which conceptualize certain issues. Some of the stated positions, - first of all, periodicals - form the material of this article, since it is the specific type of scientific research that shows the authorial aspirations of domestic scientists, which need, on the one hand, attention, and on the other, systematization. It is systematization that can outline the most promising directions of research work. The study emphasizes that each periodical "belongs" to the team of an influential educational institution or a specific research institution, therefore, the presentation of their individual theoretical interests makes it possible to assess the research area of the entire team. One should also take into account the fact that each periodical sometimes demonstrates a fairly wide "geography" of scientific activity of some authors who “move” in their own direction, effectively revealing “blank spots” in the theoretical space of cultural studies. The paper highlights that each periodical performs a communicative function, bringing together domestic cultural scholars on the pages of collections of scientific articles, contributing to both the intensification of theoretical dialogue and the identification of cornerstone issues that - for objective or subjective reasons - have been on the margins of humanitarian knowledge. The author considers the potential of a personalised approach, which allows to clearly define the theoretical and practical interests of domestic scholars, thus allowing to adjust the research space of Ukrainian humanities. The topics of the collections of scientific articles of 2019-2021 showed a noticeable interest in the following theoretical issues, namely: further improvement of the conceptual and categorical "support" of cultural studies, reconstruction of the process of formation of the phenomenon of "turn" with an in-depth analysis of "anthropological", "linguistic", "cultural" twists and turns and identification of the "pros" and "cons" of such a theoretical construct. A prominent place is occupied by issues that reveal the "zone of intersection" of cultural studies with other humanities: philosophy, history, psychology, art history. Publications in which the emphasis is placed on the history of culture as a basis for the formation of cultural studies occupy a significant place. A notable segment of contemporary cultural studies is devoted to the problem of the specificity of art, which organically combines history and cultural theory, and is of particular importance for outlining the ways of further development of Ukrainian art history. Keywords: сulturology, scientific-theoretical and scientific-practical problems, systematization, communicative function of collections of scientific works.