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Abstract
This essay draws on earlier research concerning Ukraine’s northwestern borderlands to articulate a conception of the tuteishyi (one who is “from here”) that resonates with the recent experience of Ukrainians who have been defending their homeland—a domain of blue and yellow; of sunflowers and grain fields; and with a history that is very different from that of its imperial-minded neighbour Russia—from invaders who seek to conquer and suppress its distinct Ukrainianness. The tuteishyi has always been place-based and rooted in the ecological realities of landscape and homeland, even if that individual’s identity has historically resisted definitions of national identity. This makes tuteishist' a fluid and ambiguous concept that may be useful in reconsidering identity with respect to a country that is often described as divided between pro-western Ukrainophone “nationalists” and eastern-leaning Russophones. The present article discusses this formulation of the tuteishyi in relation to philosophies of becoming, post-colonial theories of identity, and politico-ecological analyses of Ukraine and of the emerging “global climatic regime.”
Keywords:
- political ecology,
- ecocultural identity,
- Ukrainian studies,
- environmental humanities,
- post-colonial theory,
- global climatic regime
Цей нарис спирається на попередні дослідження на північно-західних прикордонних територіях України, щоб сформулювати поняття "тутешній" (той, хто "звідси"), яке резонує з нещодавнім досвідом захисту українцями своєї батьківщини -- землі синіх і жовтих кольорів, соняшників і зернових полів, з історією, дуже відмінною від історії імперської Росії -- від загарбників, які хотіли завоювати і придушити її виразну "українськість". "Тутейший" завжди був прив'язаний до місця і вкорінений в екологічних реаліях ландшафту, навіть якщо його ідентичність історично чинила опір утвердженню національної ідентичності. Це робить його мінливою і неоднозначною концепцією, яка може бути корисною для переосмислення ідентичності в країні, яку часто описують як таку, що розривається між прозахідними україномовними "націоналістами" і східноорієнтованими русофонами. У статті розглядається ця концепція у зв'язку з постколоніальними теоріями ідентичності, філософією "процесу" (становлення), та політико-екологічним аналізом України і нового "глобального кліматичного режиму".
- політична екологія,
- екологічна гуманістика,
- новий кліматичний режим,
- постколоніалізм,
- еко-культурна ідентичність,
- україністика
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