Rethinking the "three ecologies"

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

Or, process-relational ecocriticism 2.0 Two of the courses I’m currently teaching — the intermediate-level “Environmental Literature, Art, and Media” and the senior-level “The Culture of Nature” — require […]

Snyder on Crimea

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Timothy Snyder continues his series on Russia and Ukraine for the New York Review of Books. A few excerpts: !–more–”Putin and others blur the category of citizenship by speaking of Russian “compatriots,” a […]

"Contradictions of the Euromaidan"

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

While this interview is two weeks old, it adds depth and content to some of the claims made in Volodymyr Ishchenko’s analysis. Both come from a radical left perspective. Some interesting quotes: <p style="padding-left: […]

Ishchenko: No revolution, just a change of elites

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Of all the political analysts I trust in Ukraine, Volodymyr Ishchenko has been the most critical of the Maidan and the new government. While his views should be contextualized among others (some of which I have […]

Responding to concerns on the Left

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

I’ve been engaging in some vigorous e-mail conversation about Ukraine with a group of local left-wing political thinkers. The following are a few pieces of that conversation that seem worth sharing. These comments […]

Jewish leaders: Open Letter to Putin

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Ukrainian Jewish leaders have penned a strongly worded Open Letter to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. Signatories include some of the most prominent Jews in the country, among them leaders of […]

Shekhovtsov: On Putin & fascism

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

In his article “Is Putin a new Hitler (in the making)?“, political scientist and far right watcher Anton Shekhovtsov outlines the many connections between Vladimir Putin’s Eurasianist ideologues and the European […]

Comment on Crimea & the political spectrum

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

This blog makes no claims toward featuring a representative sample of views on the continuing crisis in Ukraine. Such a sample would be impossible to achieve, as there are few reliable standards for determining […]

Ishchenko: "I hate..."

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

From Volodymyr Ishchenko, sociologist at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Deputy Director of the Center for Society Research (Kyiv), and an editor of Spil’ne: Zhurnal Sotsia’noyi Krytyky (Commons: A […]

AWU statement on Russian intervention

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

From the Autonomous Workers Union’s statement on Russian intervention: “The war can be averted only if proletarians of all countries, first and foremost Ukrainian and Russian, together make a stand against the […]

Ukrainian leftists' & anarchists' statement

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

This statement by the Autonomous Workers Union and the Direct Action Independent Student Union makes clear the rift within the Ukrainian left between those who broadly support the anti-Yanukovych movement, […]

Wynnyckyj: Deciphering Putin

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

From Mykhailo Wynnyckyj, a political scientist based at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, who has been posting perceptive on-the-ground analyses of the Maidan and its aftermath: “most western analysis of the motivations […]

Snyder: The haze of propaganda

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Historian Timothy Snyder reviews the “haze of propaganda” surrounding the crisis in Ukraine in the New York Review of Books: “Interestingly, the message from authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Kiev was not so […]

Kurkov: I'm Russian and I demand removal of Russian troops from Ukraine

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Andrei Kurkov is the leading Russian-language writer and novelist in Ukraine. He writes: “I’m a Russian. My ancestors settled in Crimea in 1785. Growing up in Crimea, I was nurtured on Russian culture. I think, I […]

Ab Imperio statements

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Ab Imperio is one of the leading scholarly journals covering the post-Soviet world. Two recent editorial statements concern events in Ukraine. Read them here: An appeal of the Ukrainian scholars to the […]

Onuch & Sasse: Lessons in protest

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Oxford University political scientists political scientists Olga Onuch and Gwendolyn Sasse have been analyzing the dynamics of the development of the Ukrainian protest movement, from its first stages through to […]

Gusev: Russian activists facing danger

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

Alexei Gusev is a professor of history at Moscow State University and chair of the Praxis Research and Educational Center in Moscow. The following is a letter he sent to Richard Greeman, who asked that I post it […]

Greeman: Revolution's first phase now complete

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

A friend of mine alerted me to the following unpublished text, which was sent to a network of activists in the international Left. It is by retired scholar and activist Richard Greeman, director of the […]

Mission accomplished... not

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

UKR-TAZ announces a new mission: The concept of the TAZ, or temporary autonomous zone, comes from “ontological anarchist” writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It is intended to indicate a space of […]

TAZ is here, TAZ is gone

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

The concept of the TAZ, or temporary autonomous zone, comes from “ontological anarchist” writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). It is intended to indicate a space of liberation, a space which is at […]