DANYLIW RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE

The book explores the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests through ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of “self-organization”: if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should do it. This idea encouraged Ukrainians to rethink the relationship between citizens and their state, as well as what they can contribute to their own communities.

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Emily Channell-Justice is the Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. She is a sociocultural anthropologist who has been doing research in Ukraine since 2012 and received her PhD from CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. Her current research focuses on Ukrainian state policy toward internally displaced people between 

2014-2021.