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Terra Invicta

Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced not only military and humanitarian responses but also scholarly and artistic ones from Ukrainians looking to the future of their country.

Terra Invicta is a series of critical and creative articulations of pasts, presents, and possible futures involving humans and the more-than-human world. The authors suggest that Ukraine is caught in an environmental war, waged by a fossil-fuel superpower against people who are prepared to lay down their lives to protect their land. This volume explores the relationship between Ukrainians – a multiethnic and multireligious people with a complicated history – and the Ukrainian land, the zemlia to which they belong. Themes include decoloniality, ecocultural identity, the politics of reconstruction, and artistic responsibility amid a war for national survival. Contributors emphasize the value of reviving multispecies relations with the land, positively transforming multicultural relations with history, and reinvigorating grassroots engagements with the state and society.

Terra Invicta grapples with the role of artistic expression in the face of war and collective loss and what it means to commit to a place, a land, a territory, in a world set in constant motion.

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Contributor: Adrian Ivakhiv Adrian Ivakhiv holds the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews

"We in Ukraine have been breathing war for more than two years. War is part of the air, just like oxygen. And this is not a metaphor. The war in Ukraine affects the ecology of nature and the ecology of consciousness throughout the world. This book is the best way to understand Ukraine today and the impact of Russian aggression on your life, no matter what country you live in." Andrey Kurkov, author of The Silver Bone --- "Terra Invicta does something urgently needed but nonetheless new: it makes it clear that there is no choice between ecological concerns and the struggle against military aggression. In Ukraine, they are two moments of the same struggle. Terra Invicta deserves to become an instant classic, a volume that everyone who wants to grasp the contours of our global crisis should read." Slavoj Žižek, author of Zero Point

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    FIGURES

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    PREFACE

    xv
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    EDITOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

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    INTRODUCTION

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    Adrian Ivakhiv
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  • 1 ОБСТАВИНИ CONDITIONS
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    1 Ukraine in the Anthropocene

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    Asia Bazdyrieva
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    2 Decolonial Thinking and Artistic Practice in Ukraine After February 2022

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    Kateryna Botanova
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    3 Heart of Earth

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    Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
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    Interlude 1

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    Larion Lozovyi and Natasha Chychasova
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    4 Unfolding Coloniality

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    Svitlana Biedarieva
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    5 Impossible, Potential, Unavoidable, Invisible

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    Lesia Kulchynska
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  • 2 ҐРУНТ GROUND
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    6 Zemlia

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    Iryna Kovalenko
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    7 I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again

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    Darya Tsymbalyuk
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    8 Into Kin-Regions with Horytsvit Vesnianyi

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    Iryna Zamuruieva
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    9 Split Gills as Companion Species

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    Yuliia Kishchuk
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    10 Goethe’s Oak and Mohyla’s Linden

    175
    Kateryna Filyuk
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    Interlude 2

    188
    Sofiia Holubeva
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  • 3 РУХ MOVEMENT
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    11 Amphibious Landings

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    Tanya Richardson, Vladyslav Balynskyy, Ihor Beliakov, Nataliia Brusentsova, Vasyl Fedorenko and Ivan Rusev
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    12 Indigenous Futurity in Exile

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    Maria Sonevytsky
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    13 Sonic Fictions in the Ruins of Catastrophe

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    Olya Zikrata
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    14 Revisiting and Reimagining Chornobyl

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    Valentyna Kharkhun
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    Interlude 3

    277
    Taras Polataiko and Violetta Oliinyk
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  • 4 ПРИПУЩЕННЯ CONJECTURES
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    15 A Wartime Conversation on Ukraine, Coloniality, and Futurity

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    Asia Bazdyrieva, Adrian Ivakhiv, Svitlana Matviyenko and Oleksiy Radynski
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    16 The Public Life of Food

    300
    Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Olena Stiazhkina
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    17 War and Wild Nature

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    Oleksii Vasyliuk
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    18 We Will Definitely Talk About This After the Last Air Raid Alert Stops

    322
    Yuri Yefanov
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    POSTSCRIPT

    335
    Adrian Ivakhiv
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    CONTRIBUTORS

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    INDEX

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November 18, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228025849
eBook ISBN: 9780228025849
Keywords for this book
Environmental humanities; Ukrainian studies; Russo-Ukrainian war; arts; war; ecology; conflict; decolonialism; postcolonial theory; earthbound arts; plant theory; sound studies
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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