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The Ukrainian Night
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.
Superfluous Women
Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, and visual analysis, Superfluous Women explores the intersections between art, protest, and feminism in today's Ukraine.
Democracy in Dialogue, Dialogue in Democracy
It is widely accepted that the machinery of multicultural societies and liberal democratic systems is dependent upon various forms of dialogue - dialogue between political parties, between different social groups, between the ruling and the ruled. But what are the conditions of a democratic dialogue and how does the philosophical dialogic approach apply to practice? Recently, facing challenges from mass protest movements across the globe, liberal democracy has found itself in urgent need of a solution to the problem of translating mass activity into dialogue, as well as that of designing borders of dialogue. Exploring the multifaceted nature of the concepts of dialogue and democracy, and critically examining materializations of dialogue in social life, this book offers a variety of perspectives on the theoretical and empirical interface between democracy and dialogue. Bringing together the latest work from scholars across Europe, Democracy in Dialogue, Dialogue in Democracy offers fresh theorizations of the role of dialogue in democratic thought and practice and will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social and political theory.
Epistemic Injustice and Violence
The practice of philosophy has led to both emancipation and exclusion in society. Questions around how philosophy should be practiced, who should engage in it, and with which issues philosophy should deal are subject to debate and controversy. This volume is dedicated to the special role of epistemic injustice and violence in philosophy. By shedding light on the inherent unjust structures of academic philosophy, the contributors to this volume help to better understand this powerful tool that impacts the academic landscape as well as individual and collective ways of being. From graphic novel to philosophical essay, they design a concept of transformative philosophy and offer various entry points to the conversation.
Transit 45. Europäische Revue
Ihre Unabhängigkeit war den Ukrainern 1991 zugefallen, erkämpft haben sie sie erst auf dem Maidan. Sie stürzten ihr korruptes Regime, doch nur, um sich mit einem weitaus mächtigeren Gegner konfrontiert zu sehen, der mit allen Mitteln versucht, ihnen die neu gewonnene Chance zu nehmen. Im Moment der tiefsten Krise der Europäischen Union werden wir Zeugen einer Bewegung, die Werte einfordert, die wir selbst mehr und mehr aus den Augen verloren haben.
Ukrainian Postcards
An ebook on the threatened built environment of urban Ukraine, with all proceeds going to the CWU's Ukraine fund and Artists at Risk. This is a short, limited edition ebook, with all proceeds being divided between the Communication Workers Union's Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine, and Artists at Risk's Ukraine appeal. Today, during Russia's imperialist war on Ukraine, everyone is talking about this large, beautiful and multicultural country, but, when doing so, they're often repeating some poorly understood cliches and myths. Ukrainian Postcards, written firmly from the political left, draws on the author's writings on the modern architecture of various Ukrainian cities, written between 2010 an...
Blood of Others
In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose – some passed hand-to-hand underground, others published to controversy – shocked the conscience of readers and sought to move them to action. Blood of Others presents these works as vivid evidence of literature’s power to lift our moral horizons. In bringing...
Realities, Challenges, Visions? Towards a New Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy
Changing realities, global power shifts, and societal upheavals are resulting in new tasks and challenges for Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy. In an age of globalisation, digitisation, and growing nationalism, there is a particular need to inquire into the notion of responsibility and available spaces of action: How can strategies and networks for successful international and intercultural cooperation be drawn up, and what role do civil society actors play?
Euromaidan
»Ich gehe auf den Maidan. Wer kommt mit?«, schrieb der ukrainische Journalist Mustafa Najem im November 2013 auf Facebook. Aus einer lokalen Demonstration gegen die autokratische Entscheidung des Präsidenten Viktor Janukowytsch, das Assoziierungsabkommen mit der EU nicht zu unterzeichnen, wurde eine landesweite Protestbewegung: der Euromaidan. Mehr als hundert Menschen wurden getötet, als der friedliche Protest in Gewalt umkippte. Ein halbes Jahr später ist in der Ukraine nichts mehr, wie es war. Nach dem Sturz des korrupten Regimes nutzt der russische Präsident Vladimir Putin die Fragilität der Übergangsregierung aus und lässt seine Armee ins Nachbarland einmarschieren. Während ei...
Aus dem Nebel des Krieges
Seit dem Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine sind Tausende Menschen umgekommen, Hunderttausende haben Terror und Zerstörung erlitten, Millionen Bürger sind geflohen. Dennoch: unterstützt vom Westen, halten Staat und Gesellschaft stand. Aus dem Nebel des Krieges entsteht eine neue, ungewisse Zukunft. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes – Schriftsteller, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Aktivisten, Künstlerinnen und Journalisten – halten die Gleichzeitigkeit fest: die Ruinierung des Lebens und seiner Orte; die zivile und militärische Selbstbehauptung; den Willen, eine neue, friedliche Heimat zu schaffen. Sie beschreiben und analysieren die Situation der traumatisierten Menschen im Krieg – ihre tiefgreifende Veränderung, ihre Fähigkeit, sich in sehr unklaren Zeiten dennoch wiederzufinden.
