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The Pain of Ruins: On Urban Trauma and Collective Healing

Galyna Sukhomud

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BUR camp, reconstruction of the school in Motyzhyn, Kyiv oblast, June 2022. Published with the permission of the author, Anastasia Yevtushenko.

Reconstruction
September 2023










Notes
1

“The total amount of damage caused to Ukraine’s infrastructure due to the war has increased to almost $138 billion,” Kyiv School of Economics, January 24, 2023. See .

2

“Ukraine Emergency,” UNHCR, retrieved August 17, 2023. See .

3

Michael Rothberg, “Decolonizing Trauma Studies: A Response,” Studies in the Novel 40, no. 1–2 (Spring & Summer 2008): 224–234.

4

Stephen Graham, “Switching cities off,” City 9, no. 2 (2005): 169–194.

5

Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice, Anthony Burke, Post-Traumatic Urbanism (London: John Wiley, 2010).

6

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).

7

Dmytro Novitskyi, “The undermining of the Kakhovskaya HPP: four categories of consequences and a plan for further actions,” Epravda, June 14, 2023. See .

8

Karen E. Till, “Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care,” Political Geography 31, no. 1 (January 2012): 3–14.

9

Tim Edensor, “Waste Matter—The Debris of Industrial Ruins and the Disordering of the Material World,” Journal of Material Culture 10, no. 3 (November 2005): 311–332.

10

Michael Mayerfeld Bell, “The Ghosts of Place” Theory and Society 26, no. 6 (December, 1997): 813–836.

11

Iryna Tsekhosh, “​​Mariupol: News from the Occupied City,” Ukraïner, June 16, 2023. See .

12

Ibid.

13

Elmira Ettinger, “This Is All for Show”: How Russians are Rebuilding Mariupol,” Bird In Flight, March 30, 2023. See .

14

Sher Khashimov, “By Sending Migrants to Ukraine, the Kremlin is Damaging Ties With Central Asia,” Carnegie Polikita, March 30, 2023. See .

15

Anthony Bondarchuk, “Occupied. How and Why Russia is ‘Rebuilding’ Mariupol,” Dzerkalo Tyzhnya, June 10, 2023. See .

16

Ibid.

17

Oleksandr Viunskovskyi, “Occupiers in Mariupol Force Teachers to Obtain Russian Passports,” Suspilne, June 9, 2023. See ➝.https://suspilne.media/502531-pogrozuut-zvilnennam-i-obmezennami-u-mariupoli-okupanti-zmusuut-vciteliv-otrimuvati-pasporti-rf/? Oleksandr Yankovskyi and Olena Badyuk, “‘Apartment for Three Million in Mariupol’: What Interests Residents of Russia in Occupied Territories?”, Radio Svoboda, July 18, 2023.

18

Viktoriia Pokatilova, “Ukraine’s Bucha 1 year on: Slow progress in war crime probes,” DW, March 30, 2023. See .

19

Alina Khelashvili, Anastasiia Bobrova, Yelyzaveta Khassai, Elena Syrbu, Natalia Lomonosova, and Yuliia Nazarenko, “A year of full-scale war in Ukraine: Thoughts, feelings, actions,” Cedos, July 21, 2023. See .

20

See Repair Together, .

21

Repair Together, “We believe that young people all over the world can unite and face the global challenges of today,” Instagram, September 4, 2022. See .

22

Architects and Urbanists Have Presented Four Visions of the Spatial Development of Mariupol,” Mariupol Reborn, July 7, 2023. See .