Monuments and Territory

Mykola Homanyuk, sociologist, geographer, and theatermaker, is an associate professor at Kherson State University, Ukraine. He defended his PhD thesis in sociology at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Since 2022 he has been a member of the Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration, and Memory research group. Mykola is the author of numerous articles on mental mapping, ethnic studies, as well as memory and commemoration. As a theatermaker he runs the Kherson Theater Lab.Mischa Gabowitsch, historian and sociologist, is Professor of Multilingual and Transnational Post-Soviet Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the EHESS in Paris, and previously held positions in Princeton, Potsdam, and Vienna. He is the author or editor of numerous books in various languages, including Protest in Putin’s Russia (2016) and Replicating Atonement: Foreign Models in the Commemoration of Atrocities (2017).

• List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Theorizing the Monumentscape, Chapter 2 - Historical Background: War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine, Chapter 3 - Monuments Destroyed, Spared, and Stolen, Chapter 4 - Monuments (Re-)Built, Chapter 5 - Monuments Broadcast, Chapter 6 - Responding to Invasion: Toppling Monuments, Building Monuments, Chapter 7 - Dates, Practices, Symbols, Chapter 8 – Conclusions, Bibliography, About the Authors, Index of Places in Ukraine, Index of Names