{"title":"I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again: Plant Stories in the Context of Russia's War on Ukraine","authors":"Darya Tsymbalyuk","doi":"10.1353/ncu.2023.a903847","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article questions how we can tell stories about/with plants: what are the limitations and possibilities of making stories inclusive of plants? Focusing on Russia's war on Ukraine, it also questions how stories about/with plants impact our understanding of the invasion of Ukraine, and of the experiences of its more-than-human inhabitants during the war. Finally, the author reflects on her practice of sharing stories through research, drawing, and participatory formats, with the example of a story about Kreidova Flora nature reserve located in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"246 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2023.a903847","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:This article questions how we can tell stories about/with plants: what are the limitations and possibilities of making stories inclusive of plants? Focusing on Russia's war on Ukraine, it also questions how stories about/with plants impact our understanding of the invasion of Ukraine, and of the experiences of its more-than-human inhabitants during the war. Finally, the author reflects on her practice of sharing stories through research, drawing, and participatory formats, with the example of a story about Kreidova Flora nature reserve located in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine.
期刊介绍:
Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.