Witnessing the War against Ukraine

Eleonora Narvselius is Associate Professor in European Studies at Lund University, Sweden.Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Huculak Chair in Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the University of Alberta, Canada.Gelinada Grinchenko is Senior Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany and Professor of History at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Ukraine.Alina Doboszewska is a Social Anthropologist at Jagiellonian University, Poland.

• 1. Introduction.- Witnessing the War on Ukraine: Academic, Activist and Aesthetic Vectors of Reflection.- Part I. RUPTURES.- Squirrel Person.- 2. Research on Both Sides of the Blown-Up Bridge: (Non)Academic Reflections from the Ukrainian Ethnologist.- 3. On the Margins of an Unwritten Diary: Recording the Testimonies of Victims of the Russian Occupation in the Kyiv Region.- 4. “Where Is My Home?”: The War and the Lost Ukrainian Home.- 5. From Horror to Pain: Stories Told by the Emotions of War.- Part II. REACTIONS.- Is There Still a Chance We’ll Get Through This?.- 6. Comedy of Emergency: Ukrainian Stand-Up as Reactive War Testimony.- 7. The Unbearable Lightness of Janus-Faced Solidarity: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Czech Responses to Ukrainian Displacement.- 8. Witnessing the War at Przemyśl Train Station: Fieldnotes.- 9. Between Research and Care: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Oral History, War, and Social Engagement.- Part III. CONCEPTUALISATIONS AND RECONFIGURATIONS.- Bucha: Testifying through Pain. Notes of a War Correspondent.- 10. (Un)Told: Silences and Oral History of the Russian-Ukrainian War.- 11. Under Russia’s Military Occupation: Challenges of Representation in Ukraine.- 12. “We Who Are from There Understand Poles Well”: Practical Pasts and Historicity Among Ukrainians After the Full-Scale Russian Invasion.- 13. Unpacking (the Idea of) Home: Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Canada Post 2022.- Part IV. CONTINUITIES.- There Is an Internal Battle between the Artist and the Citizen in Me.- 14. Oral History of the Unfolding Events of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Possibilities and Challenges in the Interview Phase of Research.- 15. “I Didn’t Believe It Until the Very End…”: Making Sense of the “Impossible War” in Narratives of the 2022 Full-Scale Invasion.- 16. Linking the Two Phases of the Russo-Ukrainian War in Donbas: Autobiographical Memory as Source and Lived Method.- 17. Ethics of Wartime Oral History: Rules, Constraints, and Responsibility in the Ukrainian Context.- 18. Afterword: We, Learning to Witness Our War.