Nyhet

Absencing and Haunting in Semiotic Landscapes

Words, Voids and Ghosts in Qırım-Crimea

AvNatalia Volvach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This book offers a profound interdisciplinary exploration of haunting, absencing, and the violent transformation of words into voids. It argues that the erasure of language is never simple: when words are replaced by silence, not only messages but also entire worlds and histories disappear. Focusing on the Russian occupation of Qırım-Crimea and the ongoing war against Ukraine, the book reveals how linguistic, epistemic, and physical violence intertwine, urging scholars to look beyond words when studying violence in its many guises.Central to this inquiry is ghost ethnography, a qualitative methodological intervention that foregrounds the researcher’s embodied responses to the haunting effects of violence. By attending to sensations, memories, and affects that exceed language, ghost ethnography recognises the body as a site of knowing and care. It makes visible how absenced semiotic landscapes persist through traces, echoes, and absent presences.Conceptualising semiotic landscapes as temporally dynamic, Volvach shows that absencing and haunting not only transform meanings, memories, and worlds but also reveal the operations of violence, making clear who inflicts harm and who bears its weight. The book invites readers to listen to ghosts that inhabit wounded places and to sense what lies beyond words. It will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, social semiotics, anthropology, and memory studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032973357

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Natalia Volvach is a Ukrainian scholar and writer based in Sweden. She earned her Ph.D. at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University.

Recensioner i media

"Natalia Volvach’s hauntingly powerful book exposes the semiotics of erasure in spaces of conflict and war. Approaching the landscape with decolonial sensitivity and lyrical ethnography, it challenges us to rethink the practices, politics and lived experiences of (in)visibility. This is a moving, transformative intervention in critical sociolinguistics and semiotic landscape research."- Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern“In this highly engaging yet unsettling book Natalia Volvach takes us to the difficult terrain of Qırım-Crimea under occupation, tracing, in this wounded semiotic landscape, haunting absences produced by processes of silencing and invisibilizing. This remarkable ethnography is a must-read for anyone interested in self-reflexive accounts that are attentive to the suppressed testimonies of witnesses and to the resonances of their own body.”- Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Maria Tumarkin, Pre/facing the violence of war 1. Absences and presences in occupation 2. Turbulent pasts of Qırım-Crimea 3. Occupation: Linguistic landscapes of Aqyar-Sevastopol 4. Resistance: Unpacking protests as manoeuvres in the face of power 5. National rebirth: Aqmeçıt-Simferopol and the Crimean Tatar space of otherwise 6. Vibrant voids: Ghosts of Ukraine in Qırım-Crimea 7. Reverberations of violence and an ethnography of ghosts 8. Capturing what seems missing