Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian-Russian Case

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Acknowledgments Contents About the Author List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction: Ukraine—The In(di)visible Land 1.1 From Postcolonial to Decolonial 1.2 Explaining Anachronic Colonialism: The Necessity of a New Language 1.3 Decolonization as a Question of Ukraine’s Visibility 1.4 From Transitional Culture to Epistemic Detachment 1.5 Structure of the Book Bibliography Chapter 2: Anti-Colonialism vs. “Self-Colonization” 2.1 Second-Rate Empire and Double Consciousness 2.2 Self-Colonization as Mimicry 2.3 Hybridity and Its Discontents 2.4 The Multifunctionality of Hybridity 2.5 Anachronic Anti-Colonialism 2.6 Syncretic Polarization as the Basis for Anti-Colonial Struggle and Decolonial Processes 2.7 Case Study: Donbas; the Borderline Work of Culture Bibliography Chapter 3: Ambicoloniality 3.1 Polymorphous Coloniality 3.2 Various Ways of Forming Coloniality: The Ambicolonial Approach 3.3 Synchronic and Diachronic Colonization 3.4 The Elements of Ambicoloniality 3.5 The Eurasian Polymorphous 3.6 Ambicoloniality as the Disrupted Connection: Russophone Spaces 3.7 Case Study: Ambicolonial Appropriation; Why Ukrainian Cultural Impact Is Important for Russia Bibliography Chapter 4: (R)evolution of Identity 4.1 Ambivalence as a Postcolonial Burden 4.2 Diversity/Equality 4.3 Revolution as a Threat to Ambicolonial Epistemology 4.4 Eurocentricity as a Decolonial Option? 4.5 Syncretic Polarization as Epistemological Expulsion 4.6 Case Study: Euromaidan Practices; from the Rethinking of History to the Production of New Narratives Bibliography Chapter 5: War 5.1 Uncovering the Epistemology of Violence 5.2 Powerless Neocolonial Violence 5.3 Ambicoloniality and the Contemporary Russian War Machine 5.4 Syncretic Polarization Through Epistemological Transformation: War’s Disruptive Force 5.5 Epistemology of Violence as a New Beginning 5.6 Case Study: Documentary Turn in Ukraine Against Ambicolonial Epistemology Bibliography Chapter 6: Desire 6.1 The Ambicolonial Drive and the Hybrid Subject of Desire 6.2 Affect over the Place: Ambicolonial Perspective 6.3 Challenging Oedipal Visions of Russia’s Colonialism 6.4 Desire for New Epistemology 6.5 Case Study: Crimea as an Affective Territory Bibliography Chapter 7: Ruin and Reconstruction 7.1 The Unfolding Ruin 7.2 Decolonial Release as Liberation 7.3 Syncretic Polarization: Threats and Potentialities 7.4 The Final Dissolution of Ambicoloniality? 7.5 Regeneration After the Ruin: Displacement Fostering Internal Hybridization 7.6 Internal Hybridity as Circulation of Knowledge Bibliography Chapter 8: Conclusion Bibliography Index