Terra Invicta

Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced not only military and humanitarian responses but also scholarly and artistic ones from Ukrainians looking to the future of their country.Terra Invicta is a series of critical and creative articulations of pasts, presents, and possible futures involving humans and the more-than-human world. The authors suggest that Ukraine is caught in an environmental war, waged by a fossil-fuel superpower against people who are prepared to lay down their lives to protect their land. This volume explores the relationship between Ukrainians – a multiethnic and multireligious people with a complicated history – and the Ukrainian land, the zemlia to which they belong. Themes include decoloniality, ecocultural identity, the politics of reconstruction, and artistic responsibility amid a war for national survival. Contributors emphasize the value of reviving multispecies relations with the land, positively transforming multicultural relations with history, and reinvigorating grassroots engagements with the state and society.Terra Invicta grapples with the role of artistic expression in the face of war and collective loss and what it means to commit to a place, a land, a territory, in a world set in constant motion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-18
Mått:159 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:670 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN:9780228025832

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Militär strategi inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Adrian Ivakhiv holds the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

Recensioner i media

"Terra Invicta does something urgently needed but nonetheless new: it makes it clear that there is no choice between ecological concerns and the struggle against military aggression. In Ukraine, they are two moments of the same struggle. Terra Invicta deserves to become an instant classic, a volume that everyone who wants to grasp the contours of our global crisis should read." - Slavoj Žižek, author of Zero Point"We in Ukraine have been breathing war for more than two years. War is part of the air, just like oxygen. And this is not a metaphor. The war in Ukraine affects the ecology of nature and the ecology of consciousness throughout the world. This book is the best way to understand Ukraine today and the impact of Russian aggression on your life, no matter what country you live in." - Andrey Kurkov, author of The Silver Bone

Innehållsförteckning

CONTENTSFigures xiPreface xvEditor’s Acknowledgments xixA Note on Transliteration xxiINTRODUCTIONEarthbound@climatecrisis.warWhat Does It Mean to Be Here, Tut? 3Adrian IvakhivPART ONEОбставини/ConditionsAnthropocenes and Colonialities1 Ukraine in the Anthropocene 45Asia Bazdyrieva2 Decolonial Thinking and Artistic Practice in Ukraine After February 2022 54Kateryna Botanova3 Heart of Earth: The Flapping of Butterflies’ Wings 72Olesia Ostrovska-LiutaInterlude 1.“Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” 78Larion Lozovyi and Natasha Chychasova4 Unfolding Coloniality: Ecocide as the Erasure of Memory 86Svitlana Biedarieva5 Impossible, Potential, Unavoidable, Invisible 93Lesia KulchynskaPART TWOҐрунт/GroundEarthy, Vegetal, and Arboreal (Be)longings6 Zemlia: Soil and Seed as Weapons of Resistance in Wartime Ukrainian Popular Culture 117Iryna Kovalenko7 I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again 138Darya Tsymbalyuk8 Into Kin-Regions with Horytsvit Vesnianyi 150Iryna Zamuruieva9 Split Gills as Companion Species: On Mushrooms, Nuclear Colonialism, and War 166Yuliia Kishchuk10 Goethe’s Oak and Mohyla’s Linden: History from an Arboreal Perspective 175Kateryna FilyukInterlude 2.40 × 30 × 20 188Sofiia HolubevaPART THREEРух/MovementMappings and Passages11 Amphibious Landings: Interspecies RelationsAfter the Destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station 199Tanya Richardson, Vladyslav Balynskyy, Ihor Beliakov, Nataliia Brusentsova, Vasyl Fedorenko, and Ivan Rusev12 Indigenous Futurity in Exile: Mapping Jamala’s QIRIM 223Maria Sonevytsky13 Sonic Fictions in the Ruins of Catastrophe 243Olya Zikrata14 Revisiting and Reimagining Chornobyl: The Multiple Aftermaths of Catastrophe 263Valentyna KharkhunInterlude 3.Castle-New-Castle 277Taras Polataiko and Violetta OliinykPART FOURПрипущення/ConjecturesConversations and Speculations15 A Wartime Conversation on Ukraine, Coloniality, and Futurity 285Asia Bazdyrieva, Adrian Ivakhiv, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Oleksiy Radynski16 The Public Life of Food 300Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Olena Stiazhkina17 War and Wild Nature: Speculations on the Future of Ukrainian Wildlife 310Oleksii Vasyliuk18 We Will Definitely Talk About This After the Last Air Raid Alert Stops 322Yuri YefanovPOSTSCRIPTDecolonization (of the Unnamed Other)Is Not a Metaphor 335Adrian IvakhivContributors 349Index 357