{"id":14251,"date":"2025-09-05T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:26:42","slug":"love-land-war-and-ecology-ukrainian-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2025\/09\/05\/love-land-war-and-ecology-ukrainian-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, land, war, and ecology, Ukrainian-style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The nearly 400-page, richly illustrated anthology Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth<\/a><\/em>, which I conceived and edited as part of a Fulbright award held in Berlin (originally meant to be held in Ukraine, but displaced due to the war), is now available for pre-ordering. Please encourage your libraries and bookstores to order it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full-color book features the work of 30+ Ukrainian authors and artists that together articulate “what in the world is worth fighting for” — a world in which, in the face of history\u2019s repetitions and the future’s uncertainties, we nevertheless persist, in Katya Buchatska’s words, in “plant[ing] a garden so that we have something to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political philosopher Slavoj \u017di\u017eek writes that “Terra Invicta<\/em> does something urgently needed but nonetheless new: it makes it clear that there is no choice between ecological concerns and the struggle against military aggression. In Ukraine, they are two moments of the same struggle. Terra Invicta<\/em> deserves to become an instant classic, a volume that everyone who wants to grasp the contours of our global crisis should read.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A description, list of contents, and ordering information (including a 25% discount) can be found at Immanence’s sister blog, UKR-TAZ.<\/a> Click here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The nearly 400-page, richly illustrated anthology Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth, which I conceived and edited as part of a Fulbright award held in Berlin (originally meant to be held in Ukraine, but displaced due to the war), is now available for pre-ordering. 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