Value and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy
How does a war economy come into being? This talk builds on my on-going research with Ukrainian combatants and military crowdfunding activists along the transnational value chains of the Russo-Ukrainian war. I interrogate how my interlocutors’ experiences of life-destroying violence structure their understandings and calculation of worth and obligation in the orbit of war. I argue that on Ukraine’s frontlines, militants narrate and contest the war ‘economy’ as both a totality of value relations organised in the service of violence; and a calculative, relational frame for reckoning what people owe each other and their nation at war.
Date: 24 May 2024, 15:15 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Speaker: Taras Fedirko (University of Glasgow)
Organising department: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Organiser contact email address: information@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Kate Atherton