Disability and Disability Rights in Ukraine

Several conference papers are available online:

“‘Survivor’ in Ukraine: Living Disability in a Post-Soviet State,” (presented at the symposium “Challenges, Choices and Context: Health Behaviors in Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” University of Texas, Austin, March 23-24, 2007).

“Disability and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Ukraine: An Anthropological Critique,” paper presented at the First Annual Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, September 29-October 2, 2005.

Other articles on this work are also available online:

2006    “Parallel Worlds:  People with disabilities don’t need pity and charity. They need opportunities to live and work.” Korrespondent, December 2, 2006 (in Russian).

2002   “Living in a Parallel World: Disability in Post-Soviet Ukraine.” Russian and East European Center News (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 100:1-2.

Women and Civil Society in post-Soviet Ukraine

2008    Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  In Press.

2005 “Will the Market Set Them Free?  Women, NGOs, and Social Enterprise in Ukraine.” Human Organization 64(3):251-264.

2005 “Civil Society and Healing: Theorizing Women’s Social Activism in Post-Soviet Ukraine.”  Ethnos 70(4):489-514.

2004 “Women and Development in Postsocialism: Theory and Power East and West.” SouthernAnthropologist 30(1):19-37.

2000    “NGOs in Ukraine: The Makings of a Women’s Space?” The Anthropology of East Europe Review 18(2):23-29.

Ukrainian Folk Medicine

Ethnographic video

“Shapes in the Wax” can be ordered by contacting Instructional Support Services at Indiana University:  issmedia@indiana.edu, tel. 1-800-552-8620, fax 1-812-855-8484 (Order # CC6388, $89)

Companion articles to the video have been published in English and Ukrainian, and they may be found here:

2005    “Folk Medicine Rituals in Rural Western Ukraine: Babky-Sheptukhi.” Etnichna Istoria Narodiv Evropy (Ethnic History of Peoples of Europe) Vol. 20, pp. 107-116 (in Ukrainian).

2004. “Waxing Like the Moon: Women Folk Healers in Rural Western Ukraine.” Folklorica 9(1):13-45. 

2001. “Shapes in the Wax: Babki-Sheptukhi (Folk Healers), Their Craft, and Their Roles in Ukrainian Village Society.” Kulturni Hrona Dnistra (Cultural Chronicles of the Dnister), ed. Valentin Stetsyk, pp. 55-69.  Ivano-Frankivs’k: Lileya (in Ukrainian).

 

Health and Healing after Chernobyl

My article on radioprotectors is available here:
 
2002. “Half-Lives and Healthy Bodies: Discourses on ‘Contaminated’ Foods and Healing in
Post-Chernobyl Ukraine.” Food and Foodways 10(1-2):27-53.

Other Chernobyl research includes my investigation of the symbolic fallout of Chernobyl.  I used ethnographic methods to analyze representations of Chernobyl in academic and popular discourse, literature, and museums, arguing that Chernobyl symbols serve as a set of resources: they produce memory, and they are the grounds for making a new society. 

See my article on Chernobyl symbolism:

2004. “Chernobyl’s Sixth Sense: The Symbolism of an Ever-Present Awareness.”  Anthropology and Humanism 29(2):159-185.