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Part I Guest editor: Yuliya Yurchuk Introduction. Understanding Ukrainian Spirit: Symbols and Narratives of Ukrainian Resistance and Resilience Yuliya Yurchuk Feeding the Feed: How Food Memes Reflect Resilience in Daily Life in a War-torn Ukraine Daria Antsybor and Michel Bouchard Cultural Memory and Decolonization: The Case of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv Yana Prymachenko The Pain of Courage: Re-Imagining Militarization and Masculinity in Ukrainian Digital Illustrations of Soldiers Colby Fleming This special issue proposes to approach Ukrainian resistance from the cultural studies perspective. It brings together scholars from different disciplines who address different aspects of resilience and resistance focusing on gender, humor, literature, visual representations, and memes. The authors approach these widely circulated images and narratives as expressions of deep cultural structures that produce meanings. They are rooted in history, past lived experiences, and societal structures that govern human activities and interactions. These images and narratives signal changes in the self-perception of people and shifts in worldviews shattered by war. Although the material analyzed by the authors is very different, they all come to the main overarching conclusion: Ukrainians at time of war actively renegotiate their identities and recalibrate their understanding of history and the place of Ukraine in the world. Overall, the special issue contributes to the discussions on Ukrainian resistance relying on the evidence found in the grassroots local context. The articles collected here shed light on the deeper structures that enable production of images and narratives that we see on the surface. These structures are rooted in history, cultural memory, gender regimes, and politics. These structures too undergo renegotiations, transformation, and recalibration. 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By examining the construction and contestation of the past in a variety of regional and transborder settings, including museums, media, school curricula, libraries, and commemorative ceremonies, this issue explores the processes of negotiation, conflict, and adaptation among diverse mnemonic actors in the North.\u003cbr\u003e The study of memory politics in this context sheds light on broader transformations within Russian politics, which has grown progressively more authoritarian while still remaining dependent on regional and local implementation. The cases discussed here further demonstrate how memory politics in Russia have become increasingly securitized over the past decades.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52151812915473,"sku":"NGR9783838220550","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53657270583569,"sku":"NLS9783838220550","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783838220550.jpg?v=1763632851"},{"product_id":"journal-of-soviet-and-post-soviet-politics-and-society-book-julie-fedor-9783838217369","title":"Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Special Section: Russia`s Annexation of Crimea III\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gergana Dimova and Andreas Umland: Introduction. 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The section's papers document how these issues have been interpreted and contextualized by various relevant public actors including politicians, journalists and scholars, in Ukraine, Russia and the West. Natalya Belitser's \"The Status of the Crimean Tatars in Ukrainian and International Law\" shines new light on the long legal and political fight of the Crimean Tatars to acquire the special status of indigenous people. Alina Cherviatsova's \"The 1954 Transfer of Crimea: Debunking the Myth of a 'Royal Gift' to Ukraine\" focuses on select Soviet legal and historical issues related to Moscow's various apologetic discourses since 2014. Maryna Rabinovych's \"How the Federal Republic Reacted to Russia's Annexation of Crimea: Berlin's Diplomatic Response and German Media Representations in 2014-2020\" portrays today's Germany as caught in the middle of two of its fundamental competing foreign affairs principles, multilateralism and Ostpolitik, in the aftermath of Russia's annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donets Basin (Donbas). The three papers add new observations, comparisons, and interpretations to the growing body of academic literature, on Russia's annexation of Crimea. 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