Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities— Introduction
Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities— Introduction

Summary/Abstract: The Russian Army’s destruction of Ukrainian ecosystems and their human, animal, and plant inhabitants since 2014, and on a much broader scale since 2022, has intensified the need for well-informed and historically contextualized environmental reporting, research and storytelling about Ukraine. Many news items and accounts have featured Ukrainian environmental scientists’ data and analyses demonstrating the character and scale of the contamination and loss along with their short- and long-term consequences. But it is Ukrainian environmental humanities researchers—located both inside and outside the academy, and often in precarious positions—whose timely interventions during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion exposed the ways in which the environment is entangled with the far-reaching histories of colonialism and imperialism that led to the war in the first place.

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