Krajobraz, dekolonialność i ukraiński opór
Landscape, the Decolonial, and Ukrainian Resistance

Summary/Abstract: “Shevchenko considered crimes against Nature and the environment to be identical to crimes against humanity, as evidenced by his numerous poems and drawings, including graphic notes made during an expedition. He saw numerous shared features in landscapes surrounding him as a child. The horizon beyond which the Sun fled reminded him of enslavement in his native land. His imagination and memories assumed the form of political imagination: Shevchenko dreamed that the day would come when his homeland would be free, and the landscape would no longer suffer from violence. As we do now. […] Today’s Russian political imagination suggests perceiving the Ukrainian landscape as desolate; paraphrasing Gorbatov: ‘girdled with artillery lights.’ However, Ukrainian imagination is identical with Shevchenko’s Romantic vision: it offers performative sce narios as well as those for the emancipation of Nature and the environment. Shevchenko sees the landscape alive. Just as we are constantly seeing it now.”

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