Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: Imprints and Dreamscapes [Hardcover]

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

This beautifully wrought, multi-layered, multivocal book captures the imprint of the war experience in Ukraine: on the body and the soul, on sense and memory (collective and singular), on knowing and unknowing, on loss, care, ruin, and survival. It challenges the very notion of traumas inability to be represented by taking the time to dwell in the lived realities and dreamscapes of civilians for whom war is an enduring experience. Drawing upon visual, personal, philosophical, and historiographic approaches, the contributors paint for us a complex yet intimate portrait of people facing precarity and violence who, nonetheless and despite, remain in place.

Jeanne Morefield, Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK