Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine

‘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 trauma’s “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 ‘Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: Imprints and Dreamscapes brings together diaries, testimonies, visual material documenting the war and its effects on an individual life. This raw material of war is set in the elaborated analytical framework that draws on psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies and helps the readers to understand the workings of war through the human existence. A powerful book which will leave a haunting and unforgettable imprint in anyone who reads it.’ Yuliya Yurchuk, Assistant Professor at Södertörn University, Sweden ‘This is a deeply moving and highly relevant collection. It is good to see nuanced thought in these troubling times.’ Astrid Erll, Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Germany