Julie Umland Fedor – författare

CONTENTS:SPECIAL SECTION: TEACHING IR IN WARTIMEGUEST EDITORS: KATERYNA ZAREMBO, MICHÈLE KNODT and MAKSYM YAKOVLYEVTeaching the Russian War against Ukraine: Ukraine as a Microcosm of the Paradigm Shift from International Relations to Planetary PoliticsIAN MANNERSWill the Russian War against Ukraine Bring Changes to the Teaching of International Relations?OLENA KHYLKOTeaching International Political Economy in Times of WarTHOMAS FETZERFrom Shock to Adaptation through National Unity and Action: Third-year Undergraduate Students of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Reflect on the First Eighty Days of Russia’s War against Ukraine GALYNA SOLOVEIARTICLESNarratives about Baikonur: City and CosmodromeKULSHAT MEDEUOVA and ULBOLSYN SANDYBAYEVAFrom Decentralization to Warfare Resistance: Building a Cohesive Ukraine OLEKSANDRA DEINEKO and AADNE AASLANDEpic Indigenization: Literature and Nation on the Soviet-Finnish Borders under StalinismDIEGO BENNING WANG

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.