A ghost ethnography amidst violence: The researcherʼs body as a sensing agent
Journal: Emotion, space and society
Year: 2026

In this paper, following the Russian occupation of Crimea in March 2014, I present an analysis of the peninsulaʼs wounded semiotic landscapes and develop an approach of ghost ethnography . Building on my ethnographic fieldwork in the region back in 2017 and 2019—after Qırım-Crimeaʼs annexation but before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—I trace the signs of massive ideological transformation but also instances of erasure that followed as Russia deprived its public spaces of the Ukraini