Regimes of Violence in Russian-occupied Crimea

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel will attend to the regimes of violence in Russian-occupied Crimea. These will include cases from Russian empire until present day occupation. Each paper will address different aspects of violence, including corporeal as well as symbolic forms of violence manifested in the rendering of colonial infrastructures, semiotic landscapes, and human bodies. The panel will gather scholars from different disciplinary strands, such as sociolinguistics, political science, anthropology, and literary studies. By adopting these approaches, we seek to make visible the work and reproduction of more subtle forms of violence in Crimea both historically and contemporarily.

Sub Unit

• Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Chair

• Mariia Shuvalova, National U of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine)

Papers

• Cognitive Deoccupation: How the Crimean Tatars Responded to Settler Colonial Violence after the 2014 Russian Occupation of Crimea - Greta Uehling, U of Michigan

• Russia’s Colonial Infrastructures in Crimea: From Invasive to the Lack - Mariia Shynkarenko, Institute for Human Sciences (Austria)

• Shouting Absences: Disentangling the Ghosts of Ukraine in Occupied Crimea - Natalia Volvach, Stockholm U (Sweden)

Discussant

• Dominique Arel, U of Ottawa (Canada)