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Dr. Tatiana Zhurzhenko

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Project "The Liberal Script in Ukraine's Contested Border Regions", Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email
tatiana.zhurzhenko@zois-berlin.de

Tatiana Zhurzhenko graduated in political economy (1989) and philosophy (1993) at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) where she was teaching until 2002. In the subsequent decade she pursued two research projects on the Ukrainian-Russian and Ukrainian-Polish borders at the University of Vienna (both supported by the Austrian Science Fund). Since 2005, she has been teaching East European Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. Tatiana was a visiting scholar at Helsinki, Harvard and Toronto Universities. Since July 2021, she has been a researcher at ZOiS.

Research Interests

  • Borders and border regions in the post-Soviet space
  • Memory politics
  • Conflict and post-conflict societies
  • Gender and feminism   

Current Research projects at SCRIPTS
The Liberal Script in Ukraine's Contested Border Regions

Monographs, edited volumes:

  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2017: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, co-edited with J. Fedor, M. Kangaspuro and J. Lassila, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2010: Borderlands into Bordered Lands: Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag.

Book Chapters

  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2024: “Ruptured Histories, Contested Memories, Fluid Borders: Monuments in the Northern Black Sea Region from Catherine II to the Russo-Ukrainian War”, in: N. Bumann e.a. (eds.), Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region, De Gruyter.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2021: “The Monumental Commemoration of St. Volodymyr / St. Vladimir in Ukraine, Russia and Beyond: The Nationalisation of the Past, the Orthodox Church and ‘Monumental Propaganda’ before and after the Annexation of Crimea”. In: Amacher K., A. Portnov and V. Serhiienko (eds.), Official History in Eastern Europe, GHI Warsaw, Osnabrück: Fibre.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2021: “World War II Memories and Local Media in the Russian North: Velikii Novgorod and Murmansk”. In: D. Hoffmann (ed.), The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, London: Routledge, pp. 202-228.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2017: “Generation, War Memory and the Post-Soviet Welfare State: Institutionalizing the ‘Children of War’ in Russia”. In: J. Fedor et al. (eds.), War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 257-280.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2016: “Shared Memory Culture? Nationalizing the ‘Great Patriotic War’ in the Ukrainian-Russian borderlands”. In: M. Pakier and J. Wawrzyniak (eds.), Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives, Oxford: Berghahn.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2024: How War is Rebordering Ukraine, Current History 123(855): 249–255. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2024.123.855.249.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2024: Everyday Europeanization and Bottom-Up Geopolitics at the Ukrainian-Polish Border, Geopolitics: 1–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2283488.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2021: A Border on the Move. The Ukrainian-Russian frontier from the Soviet collapse to the conflict in Donbas. In: Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft 2020/2021, Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 139-158; Open Access.
  • Zhurzhenko, Tatiana 2021: Fighting Empire, Weaponising Culture. The conflict with Russia and the restrictions on Russian mass culture in post-Maidan Ukraine, Europe-Asia Studies 73: 1441-1466.https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1944990.

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