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Record Nr.

UNINA9910983376003321

Autore

Biedarieva Svitlana

Titolo

Ambicoloniality and War : The Ukrainian-Russian Case / / Svitlana Biedarieva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031740770

3031740777

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict, , 2634-6427

Disciplina

947.706

Soggetti

Ethnology

Culture

Imperialism

Ethnology - Europe

International relations

Regional Cultural Studies

Imperialism and Colonialism

European Culture

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

International Relations

Russia History

Europe, Eastern History

Soviet Union History

Ukraine Social conditions History 21st Century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Ukraine -- The In(di)visible Land -- Chapter 1. Anti-Colonialism Vs “Self-Colonization” -- Chapter 2. Ambicoloniality -- Chapter 3. (R)evolution of Identity -- Chapter 4. War -- Chapter 5. Desire -- Chapter 6. Ruin and Regeneration -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book proposes a new notion of “ambicoloniality” to speak about the current situation when Ukraine has become Russia's territory of obsession, and Russia, in its desire to occupy Ukraine, has in effect



subjected itself to Ukraine’s symbolic dominance. Ambicoloniality presents a key point of divergence from already existing models, as the mutual impact of the two countries over centuries has gone both ways, over a shared border — in contrast to other empires that established their colonial power relations at a distance. The Ukrainian-Russian case is very different from the examples covered by both postcolonial and decolonial theorists. To explore the reasons and consequences of such a differing process of colonial expansion/ anti-colonial struggle/ decolonial release, the book inquires into the historical and cultural reasons for the emerging gap between the two states. It explores which role cultural hybridity plays in political self-identification in both Ukraine and Russia, and how this hybridity has manifested in society and culture (including examples of art and literature) following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, until 2023. Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian, artist, and curator. She received her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK. She is the editor of the books Art in Ukraine between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance (2024) and Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021 (2021), and co-editor of At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019 (2020). .