INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES xi
4. PREFACE xv
5. EDITOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix
6. A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION xxi
7. INTRODUCTION 1
8. 1 ОБСТАВИНИ CONDITIONS
9. 1 Ukraine in the Anthropocene 45
10. 2 Decolonial Thinking and Artistic Practice in Ukraine After February 2022 54
11. 3 Heart of Earth 72
12. Interlude 1 78
13. 4 Unfolding Coloniality 86
14. 5 Impossible, Potential, Unavoidable, Invisible 93
15. 2 ҐРУНТ GROUND
16. 6 Zemlia 117
17. 7 I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again 138
18. 8 Into Kin-Regions with Horytsvit Vesnianyi 150
19. 9 Split Gills as Companion Species 166
20. 10 Goethe’s Oak and Mohyla’s Linden 175
21. Interlude 2 188
22. 3 РУХ MOVEMENT
23. 11 Amphibious Landings 199
24. 12 Indigenous Futurity in Exile 223
25. 13 Sonic Fictions in the Ruins of Catastrophe 243
26. 14 Revisiting and Reimagining Chornobyl 263
27. Interlude 3 277
28. 4 ПРИПУЩЕННЯ CONJECTURES
29. 15 A Wartime Conversation on Ukraine, Coloniality, and Futurity 285
30. 16 The Public Life of Food 300
31. 17 War and Wild Nature 310
32. 18 We Will Definitely Talk About This After the Last Air Raid Alert Stops 322
33. POSTSCRIPT 335
34. CONTRIBUTORS 349
35. INDEX 357