Terra Invicta

Adrian Ivakhiv holds the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

• CONTENTSFigures xiPreface xvEditor’s Acknowledgments xixA Note on Transliteration xxiINTRODUCTIONEarthbound@climatecrisis.warWhat Does It Mean to Be Here, Tut? 3Adrian IvakhivPART ONEОбставини/ConditionsAnthropocenes and Colonialities1 Ukraine in the Anthropocene 45Asia Bazdyrieva2 Decolonial Thinking and Artistic Practice in Ukraine After February 2022 54Kateryna Botanova3 Heart of Earth: The Flapping of Butterflies’ Wings 72Olesia Ostrovska-LiutaInterlude 1.“Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” 78Larion Lozovyi and Natasha Chychasova4 Unfolding Coloniality: Ecocide as the Erasure of Memory 86Svitlana Biedarieva5 Impossible, Potential, Unavoidable, Invisible 93Lesia KulchynskaPART TWOҐрунт/GroundEarthy, Vegetal, and Arboreal (Be)longings6 Zemlia: Soil and Seed as Weapons of Resistance in Wartime Ukrainian Popular Culture 117Iryna Kovalenko7 I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again 138Darya Tsymbalyuk8 Into Kin-Regions with Horytsvit Vesnianyi 150Iryna Zamuruieva9 Split Gills as Companion Species: On Mushrooms, Nuclear Colonialism, and War 166Yuliia Kishchuk10 Goethe’s Oak and Mohyla’s Linden: History from an Arboreal Perspective 175Kateryna FilyukInterlude 2.40 × 30 × 20 188Sofiia HolubevaPART THREEРух/MovementMappings and Passages11 Amphibious Landings: Interspecies RelationsAfter the Destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station 199Tanya Richardson, Vladyslav Balynskyy, Ihor Beliakov, Nataliia Brusentsova, Vasyl Fedorenko, and Ivan Rusev12 Indigenous Futurity in Exile: Mapping Jamala’s QIRIM 223Maria Sonevytsky13 Sonic Fictions in the Ruins of Catastrophe 243Olya Zikrata14 Revisiting and Reimagining Chornobyl: The Multiple Aftermaths of Catastrophe 263Valentyna KharkhunInterlude 3.Castle-New-Castle 277Taras Polataiko and Violetta OliinykPART FOURПрипущення/ConjecturesConversations and Speculations15 A Wartime Conversation on Ukraine, Coloniality, and Futurity 285Asia Bazdyrieva, Adrian Ivakhiv, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Oleksiy Radynski16 The Public Life of Food 300Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Olena Stiazhkina17 War and Wild Nature: Speculations on the Future of Ukrainian Wildlife 310Oleksii Vasyliuk18 We Will Definitely Talk About This After the Last Air Raid Alert Stops 322Yuri YefanovPOSTSCRIPTDecolonization (of the Unnamed Other)Is Not a Metaphor 335Adrian IvakhivContributors 349Index 357

"Terra Invicta does something urgently needed but nonetheless new: it makes it clear that there is no choice between ecological concerns and the struggle against military aggression. In Ukraine, they are two moments of the same struggle. Terra Invicta deserves to become an instant classic, a volume that everyone who wants to grasp the contours of our global crisis should read." - Slavoj Žižek, author of Zero Point"We in Ukraine have been breathing war for more than two years. War is part of the air, just like oxygen. And this is not a metaphor. The war in Ukraine affects the ecology of nature and the ecology of consciousness throughout the world. This book is the best way to understand Ukraine today and the impact of Russian aggression on your life, no matter what country you live in." - Andrey Kurkov, author of The Silver Bone