Усна історія та дослідницькі модальності в контекстах російсько-української війни/Oral history and research modalities in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Triggered by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022, there has been considerable and mounting recent interest within academic circles of the democratic world to pursue the study of Ukraine. This is particularly true in the area of the collection of testimonies and documentation on Ukrainians’ experiences of war—a domain of activity that is now saturated with international documentary and research initiatives. Ukrainian oral-history studies are at present experiencing a complex but extremely necessary renaissance. The field of Ukrainian oral history has benefited from a myriad of opportunities to evolve from a pattern of practical documentation and regional research to a qualitatively different discursive format—to become a sphere marked by broadened horizons, conceptual maturity, and advanced theorization in its fundamental principles. On the one hand, such transformation occurs owing to the mobilization of Ukrainian domestic research drives and the propulsion of knowledge production to a fundamentally new level under the pressure of war. On the other hand, these processes also unfold in the context of dynamic co-operation with a variety of international research partners, institutions, and agencies. This article examines various research positionalities and modalities and the discrepancies among them in relation to the operational documentation and collection of testimonies pertaining to the Ukrainian experience of Russia’s war of aggression. How are we to understand the many research positionalities and modalities of the sets of scholars and documentarians who have entered the field of Ukrainian oral history, and how do these modalities affect overall study? How can one combine the question of research modality with the matter of research responsibility? The author examines the role and place of different modalities in research practices and in oral historians’ interpretative representations of war and discusses how to transmute their dissimilarities into a productive dialogue.
Source: Ukraina Moderna
Institution: University of Alberta
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7134884940
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