{"id":12453,"date":"2022-03-23T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:34:06","slug":"decolonialism-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2022\/03\/23\/decolonialism-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonialism and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A piece of mine on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/notes\/457576\/decolonialism-and-the-invasion-of-ukraine\">Decolonialism and the Invasion of Ukraine<\/a>&#8221; has appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/\">E-Flux<\/a>, the Sternberg and U. of Minnesota Press critical arts journal. It&#8217;s associated with a series on the topic including Oleksiy Radynski&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/125\/453868\/the-case-against-the-russian-federation\/\">The Case Against the Russian Federation<\/a>&#8221; (to which it is a response), an anonymous &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/notes\/457097\/appeal-to-decolonize-the-russian-federation\">Appeal to Decolonize the Russian Federation<\/a>,&#8221; and Nastia Teor&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/notes\/455902\/a-t-t-e-n-t-i-o-n-air-raid-sirens-in-kyiv\">Attention! Air Raid Sirens in Kyiv<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2022\/03\/22\/decolonialism-and-the-invasion-of-ukraine\">UKR-TAZ<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of mine on &#8220;Decolonialism and the Invasion of Ukraine&#8221; has appeared on E-Flux, the Sternberg and U. of Minnesota Press critical arts journal. It&#8217;s associated with a series on the topic including Oleksiy Radynski&#8217;s &#8220;The Case Against the Russian Federation&#8221; (to which it is a response), an anonymous &#8220;Appeal to Decolonize the Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-3eR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13246,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2023\/06\/29\/russia-the-climate-crisis-ecocide\/","url_meta":{"origin":12453,"position":0},"title":"Russia, the climate crisis, &amp; ecocide","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My recent E-Flux article, \"Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle,\" raised the question of Russia's potential \"decolonization\" -- what it means (and doesn't), and how the debate over it, and over decolonization in general, needs some political updating. 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(Called \"UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone,\" the blog is found here.) 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