What Does It Mean to Study Environments in Ukraine Now?

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Abstract

In the environments of post-Soviet and post-Russian spaces damaged by Russia’s war against Ukraine, we need a postcolonial and decolonial reading of the entanglement of military-geologic extractivism at the core of Russian imperialism.

Author Biography

Darya Tsymbalyuk, Institute for Human Sciences, Austria

Darya Tsymbalyuk received her PhD from the University of St. Andrews. Her dissertation focused on displacement and war in Donbas and the human–plant relations disrupted by violence. Together with Kateryna Voznytsia, Yulia Serdyukova, Victor Zasypkin, and others she is working on Displaced Garden, an animated film dedicated to people and plants displaced by the war. With Victoria Donovan, she is the co-author of the book Limits of Collaboration: Art, Ethics, and Donbas (Kyiv: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2022).

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Published

2023-03-08

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Summer