Introduction: Sunflowers and Social Media
Johan Andersson
Johan Andersson introduces the dossier on the war in Ukraine.
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Camouflaging Ukrainian Women
Rebecca Adelman
Rebecca Adelman argues that news reports about Ukrainian women making camouflage tend to trivialize their contribution
Matter Out of Place: Rewatching Parajanov in 2022
Catriona Kelly
Catriona Kelly returns to Sergei Parajanov’s Kyiv Frescoes (1966) to find that the film, intended to commemorate ‘the Great Patriotic War’, speaks to the current tragic moment
Creating and Enforcing Moscow’s Aesthetic of War
James Gregg
Contrasting sanitized representations of the war on buildings in central Moscow with accounts from Ukrainian media, James Gregg looks at the Putin regime’s attempts to control the narrative
Online Patriots and Traitors: The War, Authoritarianism, and State-Sponsored Digital Vigilantism in Russia
Maxim Alyukov
Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Celebrity Apparatus
Kelly McGee
Examining the impact of his fictional celebrity persona on recent global events, Kelly McGee explores how Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency brings new considerations to the forefront of celebrity and media studies.
The Landscape as a Monument: Time, Space and Memory in the Geographies of Eastern Ukraine
Tanya Lokot
Tanya Lokot interviews curators Oleksandra Pogrebnyak and Dmytro Chepurnyi about the Landscape As a Monument art residency programme and the changing geographical and cultural landscapes of Eastern Ukraine.