Czego nauczyło mnie ciało o byciu badaczką Ukrainy z Ukrainy w czasach rosyjskiej agresji
What My Body Taught Me About Being a Ukrainian Scholar Dealing with Ukraine in Times of Russia’s War of Aggression
Author(s): DARJA CYMBALUKContributor(s): Katarzyna Bojarska (Translator)
Subject(s): Sociology of Culture, Russian Aggression against Ukraine, Russian war against Ukraine
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Ukraine; colonialism; war; body;
Summary/Abstract: In this text I examine the relationship of Russian colonialism and coloniality towards knowledge and knowledge-making, and question what it means to be a scholar from Ukraine, dealing with Ukraine, and located in a Western academic institution at the time of Russia’s war against Ukraine. While criticising hierarchies of knowledge production I call for recentering “knowledge that comes from suffering”, as theorised by bell hooks (1994). I turn to knowledge of suffering by engaging in autoethnography and focusing on ways in which the war has affected my body: from my changing relation to the Russian language to an awareness of mechanisms through which my body is being tokenized by academic institutions. Finally, I argue that my body taught me disengagement as a practice of decolonial resistance and a response to Russian colonialism.
Journal: Konteksty
- Issue Year: 343/2023
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 22-28
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Polish
