Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine

Emily Channell-Justice

Published by University of Toronto Press 2022

Without the State

Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine

Emily Channell-Justice

In the series Anthropological Horizons

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487509750

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About this book

Without the State traces the transformation of the citizen-state relationship during and after the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine.

Author / Editor information

Channell-Justice Emily :

Emily Channell-Justice is the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.

Reviews

Catherine Wanner, Professor of History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University and author of Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine:

"This is a wonderfully animated ethnographic study of efforts to forge new forms of political activism during an acute political crisis. Emily Channell-Justice presents emerging political actors, who seek to pioneer new methods of 'self-organization' to introduce sweeping and lasting political change. Without the State has echoes far beyond Ukraine, or even the post-Soviet space, and illustrates the spectrum of possible responses to political polarization and state dysfunction."

Julie Hemment, Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst:

"Compelling, well-represented, and engagingly written, Without the State is an important work of scholarship that presents fresh research on a topic of great contemporary interest and (geo)political significance. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with left-oriented activists, as well as Emily Channell-Justice’s own participation in the protest events of Maidan, this book offers a rich and nuanced account of the protests and their implications for contemporary Ukrainian politics."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Language Note Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Introduction: “We provide the content of Maidan!” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Without Any Help from the State: Self-Organization in Ukraine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter Two. Twenty-First Century Leftists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter Three. Decommunization and National Ideology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter Four. #LeftMaidan: Violence, Repression, and Re-creation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter Five. “For free education”: Education Activism and Maidan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter Six. “These aren’t your values”: Gender and Nation on Maidan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Conclusion: Volunteerism after Maidan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
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Anthropological Horizons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 302
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 36
- Other: 35 colour illustrations, 1 b&w illustration
Keywords: Ukraine; social movements; political activism; feminism; post-socialism; education; neoliberalism; citizenship; Euromaidan; Maidan; protest; political protest; Kyiv; Europe; Slavic studies; self-organization

eBook

Published: November 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781487509750