Pre-prints: Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities, from East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies

(from Tanya Richardson) Amidst accumulating bad news, a small positive thing: At long last my brilliant co-editor Darya Tsymbalyuk and I are able to make available pre-print versions of articles that make up a two-part special issue of the East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies called “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” 

The special issue’s main goal is to gather scholars doing ground-breaking work at the interface between Ukrainian studies and environmental humanities and to contribute to challenging multiple colonialities of knowledge in which the study of Ukraine’s environments are embedded. 

We began working on this special issue in 2022 and are tremendously grateful to our amazing authors Anastassiya Andrianova Kateryna Iakovlenko Iryna Skubii Iryna Zamuruieva Julia Malitska Jonathan Turnbull Adrian Ivakhiv who wrote their papers at the beginning of the russian full-scale invasion in incredibly stressful conditions and to Anna Olenenko for allowing us to translate her article about the construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station. 

When we began, the relatively few artists and researchers doing this kind of work often did not know of each other’s existence. More and more artists, writers, and researchers are making ecology and the natural world the focus of their work following devastating impacts of russia’s full-scale invasion. Our hope is to facilitate greater communication among them and the formation of an intellectual community. The main work on this special issue was completed in fall 2023, and reflects the situation at that time.  

We are grateful to our authors for their inspiring work and patience during the long journey to publication and to East/West for providing a venue in which to publish this work. 

Please read the table of contents to see the whole issue and for how to cite the articles. We include the table of contents in the post; the link to the GoogleDrive containing the articles is listed below. The attached image is the wonderful collage that Darya made for the blog post we wrote for Niche in fall 2023.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jLnL1VfF15JNZLA1KauP4R4A5qBayEB3

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Table of contents

Volume 11, number 1, spring 2024

Introduction

Richardson, Tanya, and Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. 

Articles

Andrianova, Anastassiya. “Sunflowers in the Ruins: A Multimodal Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Ukrainian War Songs from March to May 2022.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming.

Iakovlenko, Kateryna. “A Systematic Robbery: Transforming the Memory, Culture, and Landscape of the Ukrainian Steppe.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming. 

Essays

Zamuruieva, Iryna. “Gathering Ecofeminist Stories with Kateryna Hrushevs'ka.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming.

Ivakhiv, Adrian. “Becoming Tuteishyi: Ukraine in the New Global Climatic Regime.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, forthcoming.  

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Volume 11, number 2, fall 2024 

Articles

Richardson, Tanya and Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Malitska, Julia. “Polycentring Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Human-Animal Relationships in the Pages of Vegetarianskoe obozrěnie, 1909–15.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Skubii, Iryna. “Toward an Animal-Sensitive History of Famines: Animals, the Environment, and Soviet Famines in Ukraine.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Essay

Turnbull, Jonathon. “Chornobyl as Laboratory? The Curious Case of CTVT.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.

Article in Translation

Olenenko, Anna. “‘Our New Sea Is Our New Grief’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle to Construct the Landscape of the Lower Dnipro.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies [Edmonton and Toronto], vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.