Thursday 28 April, 5pm BST, 6pm CEST, 7pm EEST
speakers:
Aliona Liasheva (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Marko Bojcun, Ukrainian socialist and author of The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine 1897-1918.
Yuliya Yurchenko (University of Greenwich)
This event was dedicated to a discussion of the complexities of the pretexts, narratives, critical political economy and geopolitics of the war in Ukraine that is now in its ninth year. The discussion is organised around a reading of three different texts by three authors/Ukraine researchers with different areas of expertise. This discussion will be as political as it is scholarly (as always, but more so this time for obvious reasons).
The workshop aims to challenge conventional understandings and discourse, and to develop a deeper understanding of Ukraine’s political economy, its statehood and nationhood, strengths and weaknesses, socio-economic and societal ills. In doing so, the workshop will seek to draw materially-rooted conclusions that challenge the epistemological, ontological, and methodological weaknesses of conventional political economy, international relations, and political science approaches to understanding the world, and to do so outside Eurocentrism and its equally limiting critique.
The workshop will open with an outline of the major challenges facing Ukraine at the moment and the state of the war to date, followed by brief interventions from the authors before opening up for discussion.
Readings
Alona Liasheva – Without shelter: housing policy in wartime
Marko Bojcun – On the Current State of Negotiations, April 2022
Yuliya Yurchenko – Fighting for Ukrainian Self-Determination
Further readings/links:
https://commons.com.ua/en/zapiski-zi-lvova/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/ukrainian-working-class-formation-ussr-nato-war-national-identity
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/why-is-war-in-eastern-ukraine-still-going-on/
https://spectrejournal.com/fighting-for-ukrainian-self-determination/
Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06) 