Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1694-2
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Taschenbuch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

CONTENTS

Special Issue: Symbols and Narratives of Ukrainian Resistance. Part I

Guest editor: Yuliya Yurchuk

Introduction. Understanding Ukrainian Spirit: Symbols and Narratives of Ukrainian Resistance and Resilience
Yuliya Yurchuk

Feeding the Feed: How Food Memes Reflect Resilience in Daily Life in a War-torn Ukraine
Daria Antsybor and Michel Bouchard

Cultural Memory and Decolonization: The Case of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv
Yana Prymachenko

The Pain of Courage: Re-Imagining Militarization and Masculinity in Ukrainian Digital Illustrations of Soldiers
Colby Fleming

This special issue proposes to approach Ukrainian resistance from the cultural studies perspective. It brings together scholars from different disciplines who address different aspects of resilience and resistance focusing on gender, humor, literature, visual representations, and memes. The authors approach these widely circulated images and narratives as expressions of deep cultural structures that produce meanings. They are rooted in history, past lived experiences, and societal structures that govern human activities and interactions. These images and narratives signal changes in the self-perception of people and shifts in worldviews shattered by war. Although the material analyzed by the authors is very different, they all come to the main overarching conclusion: Ukrainians at time of war actively renegotiate their identities and recalibrate their understanding of history and the place of Ukraine in the world.

Overall, the special issue contributes to the discussions on Ukrainian resistance relying on the evidence found in the grassroots local context. The articles collected here shed light on the deeper structures that enable production of images and narratives that we see on the surface. These structures are rooted in history, cultural memory, gender regimes, and politics. These structures too undergo renegotiations, transformation, and recalibration. To a certain extent, the articles not only analyze but also document and archive the cultural products created by Ukrainian society in the first years of the full-fledged invasion. As such, they will be also valuable as historical sources to be used by researchers in the future. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fedor, Julie Umland

Fedor, Julie

Umland, Andreas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yurchuk, Yuliya

Antsybor, Daria

Bouchard, Michel

Fleming, Colby

Prymachenko, Yana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Zeitschriften, Periodika, Abstracts, Indizes

Über Autor(innen)

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Yurchuk, Yuliya
Yuliya Yurchuk is Associate Professor of History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. She specializes in memory studies, history of religion, and the study of nationalism in East European countries. She is the author of the book Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine (Acta 2014) and one of the editors of Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective (Routledge, 2022, co-edited with Zuzanna Bogumil). Together with Julie Fedor and Andreas Umland she was a co-editor of the series of special issues of Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society dedicated to the memory and history of the OUN and UPA. Currently she is working on two research projects: one in the field of the transnational intellectual women’s history (funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies) and another in the field of cultural heritage in the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war (funded by the Jean Monnet EU Program). Her interests continue to be memory, knowledge production, imperialism, decolonization, and securitization of the past.

Fedor, Julie
Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.

Andreas Umland is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv and Research Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Previously, he was a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Center for European Security of the Institute of International Relations Prague.
Dr. Umland is also a lecturer in political science at Kyiv Mohyla Academy.