Responses to dispossession
Year: 2023

Since the Euromaidan protests of 2013–2014, Ukrainian political and civil society has been defined by the idea of self-organization: if someone has the ability to do something, and that thing needs to be done, then the person should simply do it. This concept is applied far beyond political activism and now permeates Ukrainian society. When Russia’s war in Ukraine began in 2014, mass numbers of people were displaced from the Donets’k and Luhans’k regions, as well as from Crimea. This chapter arg