{"id":394,"date":"2014-04-07T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=394"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:11:14","slug":"phillips-things-are-just-beginning-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/04\/07\/phillips-things-are-just-beginning-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips: &#8220;Things are just beginning for us&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In &#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/iupress.typepad.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/guest-post-things-are-just-beginning-for-us-ukrainian-perspectives.html\">Things are just beginning for us&#8217;: Ukrainian perspectives<\/a>,&#8221; anthropologist Sarah Phillips, author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iupress.indiana.edu\/product_info.php?products_id=76841\" target=\"_blank\">Women\u2019s Social Activism in the New Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iupress.indiana.edu\/product_info.php?products_id=482028\" target=\"_blank\">Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0reports on a recent informal survey she launched on Facebook to collect Ukrainians&#8217; perspectives and concerns.<\/p>\n<p>She notes the following overarching trends:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is much critical concern about the \u201cmedia wars\u201d shaping public opinion about the Maidan movement and the crisis in Crimea, especially the biased perspective of the Russian press.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWho are the Ukrainians?\u201d is a question being actively negotiated.<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s interference in Ukraine is rejected by many who are striving towards a \u00a0 democratic state based on rule of law and respect for human rights.<\/li>\n<li>International support for Ukrainian sovereignty and for the people of Ukraine is \u00a0 important and appreciated.<\/li>\n<li>Although tensions exist, many people in Ukraine are feeling united as never before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iupress.typepad.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/guest-post-things-are-just-beginning-for-us-ukrainian-perspectives.html\">The article can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;&#8216;Things are just beginning for us&#8217;: Ukrainian perspectives,&#8221; anthropologist Sarah Phillips, author of\u00a0Women\u2019s Social Activism in the New Ukraine\u00a0and\u00a0Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine,\u00a0reports on a recent informal survey she launched on Facebook to collect Ukrainians&#8217; perspectives and concerns. 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