{"id":1231,"date":"2022-04-17T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2022-04-17T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:46:49","slug":"babij-this-is-about-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2022\/04\/17\/babij-this-is-about-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Babij: “this is about ground”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the next several weeks I will be on the road and likely not posting very much. But occasionally I’ll share bits and pieces that come to me that I don’t find being shared elsewhere. Like this one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer and curator Larissa Babij<\/a>‘s blog A Kind of Refugee<\/a> has been providing a kind of refuge of poetic and inspired reflection on the reality of the Russian war on Ukraine. Most recently she writes<\/a> about spring sunshine in Kyiv and how the “great energy to do something fully in the moment” provides the ground on which Ukrainians stand today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice, she writes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

between subjugation to Russia or obedience to the West was never a particularly palatable one. and so Ukraine just plodded along ambiguously, neither here nor there, but \u201cnot dead yet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But “under increasing pressure and finding no safe path or protection” Ukrainians began to fight, not out of a rigorously theorized perspective — “Ukraine doesn’t have philosophy,” she provokes — but <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainians have the audacity to do things. without asking. without thinking too far ahead. without mapping out in their imaginations how it will work or endure in the long run. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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