211. Dr Sasha Dovzhyk - Invasion and Violence Accelerated the Evolution of Ukrainian Resilience and Identity.

100 years ago, nobody cared about Ukraine – or its disappearance as an
independent state – swallowed up as the newly born tyranny of the USSR
flexed its imperial muscles; but that has now changed. Putin’s Russian
World revanchism and violence have accelerated the evolution of
Ukrainian identity and increased the pressure for social, political, and
economic change. Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative,
is that Ukraine is not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case.
But Ukraine is not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. As a
nation, it is old, different, and diverse. And at the end of this war,
Ukraine could prove to be the rock upon which the decrepit, brittle hull
of the Russian imperial ship tears itself apart and sinks from history.

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SPEAKER:
Dr Sasha Dovzhyk is a London-based author from Zaporizhzhia and a
special projects curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. She holds
research affiliations with Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, University of
London. Since February 2022, she has been dividing her time between
London and Ukraine. Sasha has written on topics as diverse as the
legacies of Chornobyl, transnational decadent aesthetics, and Ukrainian
literature for various publications, including Los Angeles Review of
Books, The Guardian, CNN, The Ecologist, openDemocracy. Sasha regularly
gives public talks, interviews, and moderates events on the topics of
Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion and Ukrainian traditions of
resistance.

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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-dovzhyk-3a907b25/
https://twitter.com/sasha_weirdsley
https://www.sashadovzhyk.com/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/olexandra-dovzhyk
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/sasha-dovzhyk/
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ARTICLES:
https://www.londonukrainianreview.org/
https://theecologist.org/profile/dr-sasha-dovzhyk
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sasha-dovzhyk
https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/sasha-dovzhyk/
https://newlinesmag.com/writers/sasha-dovzhyk/