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Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has intensified the efforts of intellectuals and public figures to make sense of Ukraine’s identity beyond the imperial discourse of ‘little Russia’. The deconstruction of imperial narratives triggered debates about the role of decolonization in Ukraine, which acquired particular importance in the times of hybrid warfare. This round table focuses on the manifestation of resistance and decolonization efforts in Ukrainian media, scholarly, and literary discourses. Discourse analysis provides an intriguing opportunity to shed light on changing interpretations of Ukrainian identity and anticolonial efforts articulated in scholarship, literature, and media. While literature served as a platform for developing anticolonial discourse for centuries in the Ukrainian context, the collapse of the Soviet Union, followed by broader socio-political liberalization, established conditions for the emergence of free media and the re-establishment of academic freedom. Thus, the round table will illuminate discourse transformations in Ukraine's embattled yet liberated context.