Masculinity, Guilt, and Citizenship: How Men of Conscription Age Make Sense of Leaving Ukraine
Research by Danish political scientist Sofie Rose
The Rules of the Street: Informal Hierarchies and Mutual Aid Among Homeless People
Exploring the complex social world of homeless people in Odesa
The Poisoned Breadbasket: Pesticides, Politics, and the Price of Agricultural Success
Today, Ukrainian agriculture is inextricably linked to the use of large quantities of toxic chemicals, or pesticides
Without Hope for Revival? Why Maternity Hospitals Are Disappearing in Ukraine
Since the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, the number of maternity hospitals in Ukraine has significantly declined.
Laying the Foundations: Bohdan Krawchenko on Publishing and the Civil Service
Bohdan Krawchenko is a social scientist of Ukrainian origin whose academic and intellectual biography spans Canada, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan.
In the City’s Shadows: How Homeless People in Odesa Survive During Wartime
Odesa has long had a reputation as a city of drifters and seekers. Its mild southern climate and historic status as a “free port” made it a magnet for refugees of various nationalities, the destitute, those in search of shelter or work—and for many, a place where spending the night outdoors felt less brutal. Since […]
Land Stripped of the Right to Harvest: War and the Crisis of Small-Scale Farming in Ukraine
War leaves its mark on everything: land, water, and people. But perhaps its consequences are felt most acutely by small-scale agricultural producers. In this article, we examine how the war has changed Ukrainian agriculture, focusing on the needs of small farms, which were actively developing before the war but are now facing an unprecedented crisis. […]
“Drill, Baby, Drill”: How the Extraction and Export of Critical Raw Materials Can Exacerbate Ukraine’s Resource Trap
Interest in Ukraine’s mineral wealth has surged against the backdrop of global competition for critical raw materials needed for the transition to green energy and new technologies. This transition, presented as a path to sustainable development and the fight against climate change, is increasingly masking a fierce geopolitical struggle over resources, with various players striving […]
“We’ll Hope That Someday We’ll Be Remembered”: Social Workers in Times of War
Care work is immensely valuable to society, yet for centuries, it has largely remained behind the scenes—hidden behind the closed doors of homes and social institutions. Globally, women and girls perform three-quarters of unpaid caregiving at home, and more than two-thirds of professional caregivers are also women. Ukraine is no exception: the labor market in […]
Bakhmut-Kyiv-Prague: Industrialization, Literary Modernism and Ukrainian Nation-Building Across Interwar Borders
My lecture[1] discusses Ukrainian literary modernism from the perspective of various socialist visions of modernity and is aimed to combine different cases from entangled Ukrainian history of the interwar period through the figure of literary critic, politician and sociologist Mykyta Shapoval-Sriblians’kyi. I propose to consider socialism, including the radical Bolshevik one, – as a distinct […]
