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Ariadne’s thread is a platform for the critical public discussion, comprehension and reflection of the Russian war with Ukraine. It aims to give voice and space to those who face and/or stand against this war through active protests, volunteering, collecting evidence and data, disseminating information, or through any other form. Ariadne’s thread is intended to fixate thoroughly on the public and scholarly ideas, thoughts, affects, and emotions arising amid and over the horrific Russian inva ...
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#4: On possibility of solidarity. How to support those who dare to stand against the war from the inside?
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It seems that a vast majority of Russians are pro the Russian war on Ukraine. Various surveys in Russia tend to reproduce this picture by drawing a huge share of Russians (>80%) supporting the war. Yet, multiple critics and experts insist that we cannot trust these numbers as any quantitative research done in contemporary Russian settings is unreli…
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine exposes the difficulty of the contemporary gender order in Russia. It problematises Russian hegemonic masculinity represented by Vladimir Putin and the discourses around it. In the meantime, the masculinity of Volodymyr Zelenskyy seems to provide an alternative to the currently dominant Russian masculinity. Is it tru…
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#2: Resisting Russian propaganda: on nationalism in Ukraine
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According to the Russian government, the goal of invading Ukraine was to “denazify” the country and its leadership and “to protect people” who have been “subjected to bullying and genocide». The trope of Ukraine «nazification» has been enormously highlighted and elaborated within the official Russian discourse since 2014. Since the Crimea annexatio…
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#1: How we speak about Russia matters
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This podcast episode opens up the discussion on the current Russian War in Ukraine. Utterly shocked with the Russian military aggression, Russian-background feminist scholars at the University of Helsinki Dr. Anna Avdeeva (Swedish School of Social Science), Dr. Daria Krivonos (Center of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives), and …
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