Description
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.
The book approaches the conflict in Ukraine through the prism of creative and artistic material alongside scholarly analysis to highlight the multiplicity of subjective experiences. Essays are complemented by material from the ‘war diaries’, which comprise day diaries, dream diaries, artistic and poetic material composed by students and academics in February and March 2022. With chapters focusing on fear, ruptures and resistance, the book examines different aspects of subjective, cultural and embodied experiences of war. It examines elements that dominant perspectives of war often overlook; the quotidian, personal and emotive ways that war is registered individually and collectively in societies and cultures.
Highlighting different narratives that illuminate the complex effects of war, this book is highly relevant for postgraduate students, researchers and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of cultural psychology, psychosocial studies, peace and conflict studies and cultural history.
Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 7 and Chapter 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
To read the online archive of Two Months of War, please visit the Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History (Lviv, Ukraine): https://uma.lvivcenter.org/en/collections/178/interviews
Table 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
