Kharkiv-A War City

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1988-2
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 169 g

Reihe: Ukrainian Voices

This unique collection of essays offers a glimpse into life in and around Kharkiv during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A Kharkiv native, Vikoriia Grivina reflects on living in a city where days are full of poetry readings and gallery openings, while nights are saturated with air raids and explosions.
The chronicle of everyday life is layered with inquiries into the urban history and mythology of the 20th-century Kharkiv, a look at the city’s decolonial processes, new activist communities, and also the re-discovery of the 1920s literary movement known as the Ukrainian Executed Renaissance. The collection also comprises a fictional story that explores some of the darker, irrational fears and imaginations of urban dwellers during war. 

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grivina, Viktoriia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

This unique collection of essays offers a glimpse into life in and around Kharkiv during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Über Autor(innen)

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Grivina, Viktoriia
Viktoriia Grivina holds two Master’s degrees in English and German linguistics of Kharkiv National University, and in Cultural Studies via the Erasmus Mundus program at the universities of Tübingen, Bergamo, and St Andrews. Since 2021, she is working on her PhD thesis at St Andrews University, studying the war-time transformations in Kharkiv. In 2023, her book proposal, Potatoes and Other Hobbies, was shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize in the UK.

Viktoriia Grivina holds two Master’s degrees in English and German linguistics of Kharkiv National University, and in Cultural Studies via the Erasmus Mundus program at the universities of Tübingen, Bergamo, and St Andrews. Since 2021, she is working on her PhD thesis at St Andrews University, studying the war-time transformations in Kharkiv. In 2023, her book proposal, Potatoes and Other Hobbies, was shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize in the UK.