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This innovative and important book explores how war imprints on culture and the psychosocial effects of war on individuals and societies, based on the first few months after the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022.
List of contents
Introduction Part I: Recording Lived Experiences of War through Diaries, Images and Dreams Chapter 1. Collective Practice of Meditation and Phenomenology of Consciousness in War Chapter 2. ‘The Production of Fireflies’. Searching for Truth and Truthfulness in the Diaries and Images of War, Conversation with Bohdan Shumylovych Chapter 3. The Emotional and Psychological Registers of War, Conversation with Natalka Ilchyshyn EXCERPTS FROM DIARIES OF WAR AND LIFE (1) Part II: The Ruptures and Ruins of War Chapter 4. Dreaming of War Chapter 5. ‘The Word Remains’. War Diaries in Ruptured Time and Space Chapter 6. The Image in Ruins Chapter 7. Quiet Trauma and the War in Ukraine EXCERPTS FROM DIARIES OF WAR AND LIFE (2) Part III: Resistance, Endurance, Testimony Chapter 8. Unexpected Shapes of Courage: Emotions of Resistance in Ukraine Chapter 9. The Determination to Resist. Dumky by Young Ukrainians Chapter 10. Testimony, Endurance, Tryvoga: A History Open to Shivering Bodies
About the author
Bohdan Shumylovych is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University. He also works at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine.
Magdalena Zolkos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Summary
This innovative and important book explores how war imprints on culture and the psychosocial effects of war on individuals and societies, based on the first few months after the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022.
