The Other within: Reflections on fieldwork in Ukraine before the Russian full-scale invasion
Journal: kritisk etnografi Swedish Journal of Anthropology
Year: 2023

In this article, I reflect on several instances of symbolic communication that has been taking place in the shadow of the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine.The article should be read as some afterthoughts from a research project that was completed just before the Russian full-scale invasion.It builds mainly on material from intermittent fieldwork among PR consultants and government officials in Ukraine, with particular interest in meaning management.The theme that conjoins rather scattered examples