Books & Publications

Brown, K. 2019a. Manual For Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

radioactivity, Chornobyl, nuclear, environment
book

Cybriwsky, R.A. 2018. Along Ukraine’s River. A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro. CEU PRESS.

history, Kyivan Rus, Dnipro, ecocriticism
book

Donovan, V.S. Tsymbalyuk, D. Chepurnyi, D. Zasypkin, V. Kuchynskyi, O. Siryk, K. 2022. Limits of collaboration: art, ethics, and Donbas.

Donbas, slag, zabroshka, Sievierodonetsk, culture
book

Dorondel, S. and Olenenko, A. 2022. In Quest of Development: Territorialization and the Transformation of the Southern Ukrainian Wetlands, 1880–1960. A New Ecological Order.

wetland, Southern Ukraine
book chapter

Eriksen, C. and Turnbull, J. 2022. Insure the volume?: Sensing air, atmospheres, and radiation in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance.

wildfire, atmospheres, liability, sensing
book chapter

Plank, C. 2016. The agrofuels project in Ukraine: How the oligarchs and the EU foster agrarian injustice. Routledge.

agrofuels, flex crops, agribusiness, agroholding
book chapter

Richardson, T. 2022. Chapter 1: Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth’s Physical Features. Delta Life. 

Danube, plavni, wetland, Vylkove
book chapter

Rudenko, K, I. 2025. I Dream of the Absinthium Field:Landscapes,Myth and Longing.With contributions from Zamuruieva,I and Zhdanovskyy, D.

landscape, longing, dream
publication

Sukhenko, I. 2014. Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature. In S. Slovic, S. Rangarajan, and V. Sarveswaran (Eds.) Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (pp. 113-130). New York: Lexington Books.

Chornobyl, ecocriticism, literature, humanities
book chapter

Tsymbalyuk, D. 2025. Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Polity Press. 

loss, ecocide, war
book

Turnbull, J. and Brown, K. forthcoming. Compounding Catastrophes in Polissya: Chornobyl’s Legacy Along the E40 Waterway. In Högselius, P. (Ed.) Nuclear Waters.

Chornobyl, E40, environment, nuclear
book

Олененко А.Г. 2018. Екологічна історія: світовий досвід та перспективи розвитку в Україні. Підземний простір: освоєння, вивчення, вторинне використання: Збірник матеріалів Міжнародної наукової конференції (Запоріжжя–Василівка, 25-26 вересня 2015 р.) 

environmental history, conference, underground
publication

Articles & Essays

Andrianova, A. 2022. Mavka as Willow. An Ecofeminist Analysis of Lesja Ukrajinka’s Forest Song. Studi Slavistici.

Lesya Ukrainka, deforestation, ecofeminism, ecocriticism
article

Andrianova, A. 2022. Russia’s War on the Nonhuman. NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.

nonhuman, war, deforestation, Polissia, Lesya Ukrainka
article

Badior, D. 2022. Why We Need a Post-Colonial Lens to Look at Ukraine and Russia. Hyperallergic.

film, culture, art, decolonisation
article

Baklazhko, A. 2025. Тіло землі: пейзаж як відображення колективної травми[The body of the earth: landscape as a reflection of collective trauma]

art, earth, painting
article

Baraniuk, C. 2021. The guards caring for Chernobyl’s abandoned dogs. BBC. 

care, Chornobyl, Exclusion Zone
article

Bazdyrieva, A. 2022. No Milk, No Love. E-Flux Journal.

territory, inhuman, resoursification, breadbasket, atlantis
article

Bazdyrieva, A. 2022. Of brushwood, reeds, and foil. Againstcatastrophe.

Chornobyl, modernity, ruins
essay

Bazdyrieva, A. 2023. Micro, Meso, Macro. Transmediale.

blackouts, energy, resoursification
essay

Brown, K. 2019b. Learning to Read the Great Chernobyl Acceleration: Literacy in the More-than-Human Landscapes. Current Anthropology.

Chornobyl, nuclear, radiation, pine, mutation
article

Brown, K. 2020b. Chernobyl is on your breakfast table. Feral Atlas.

radioactivity, Chornobyl, wetland, health
article

Hanhal, A. 2021. Домбровський кар’єр: 100 років історії та 5 метрів до екологічної катастрофи [Dombrovsky Quarry: 100 Years of History and 5 Meters to Environmental Disaster], Commons.

potash, Dnister, fertilizer, Kalush
article

Hundorova, T. 2021. Post-Chornobyl: From (Non)Representation to an Ecocritical Reading of Nuclear Trauma. Slavia Iaponica.

Chornobyl, nuclear, literature
article

Iakovlenko, K. 2022. Black, white, and colourless, The Ecologist.

salt, coal, gas, Donbas
article

Iakovlenko, K. 2022. Landscape, Decolonial and Ukrainian Resistance.

landscape, Shevchenko, Donbas, art
article

Iakovlenko, K. 2023. Все, що ми називаємо “кібер” невіддільне від крові й поту: Світлана Матвієнко про забруднення як зброю. Суспільне Культура.

cyberwar, nuclear terrorism, solidarity, vertical occupation
interview

Iakovlenko, K. 2024.”Здається, я заходжу в наш сад…” Нотатки на полях тривалістю в п’ять років — колонка Катерини Яковленко [“I think I’m entering our garden…” Five years of notes in the margins — a column by Kateryna Yakovlenko] Суспільне Культура.

art, reflection, environment, commemoration, birds
column

Larina, M. 2021. Чи врятує водень від кліматичної кризи й економічної залежності України [Will Hydrogen Save Ukraine from the Climate Crisis and Economic Dependency?], Commons.

energy, carbon, industry
article

Mamonova, N. 2022. Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war. The Journal of Peasant Studies.

solidarity, agribusiness, food production, farming, rural
article

Matviyenko, S. 2023. Speeds and Vectors of Energy Terrorism. E-flux. 

disinformation, cyberwar, nuclear terrorism, Zaporizhzhia, Chornobyl
article

Olenenko, A. 2015. Ukraine and Camels: Features of the Incorporation into the Steppe Landscape. Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia. 

Southern Ukraine, Tatar, Crimea, steppe, nomads
article

Olenenko, A. 2023. Cyclical History: The Kakhovka Dam Disaster. Politika.

Kakhovka, ecocide, Dnipro, wetlands, Velykyi Luh
article

Perga, T. 2022. Ecocide in Ukraine: How Russia’s War Will Poison the Country (and Europe) for Decades to Come. De Gruyter Conversations: Politics and Society

ecocide, contamination, Chornobyl
article

Pirani, S. 2022. Захід проти Росії: економічна війна та провал кліматичної політики [West vs. Russia: Economic War and the Failure of Climate Policy], Commons.

energy crisis, oil, gas
article

Radynski, O. 2020. Is Data the New Gas? E-flux

Nord Stream 2, carbon, film, cybernetics
article

Radynski, O. 2022. Nord Stream Studies. Against Catastrophe. 

gas, USSR, Germany, pipeline
article

Radynski, O. 2022c. Russian Fossil Fascism is Europe’s Fault. Soniakh Digest. 

Nord Stream 2, carbon, film, history
article

Richardson, T. 2015b. (In)Accessible Land: The Changing Practices and Regulation of Gardening in the Reedbeds of Ukraine’s Danube Delta.

gardening, agriculture, food, policy
article

Richardson, T. 2016a. Objecting (to) Infrastructure: Ecopolitics at the Ukrainian Ends of the Danube. Science as Culture. 

irrigation, agriculture, coast, policy, river
article

Richardson, T. 2016c. The Politics of Multiplication in a Failed Soviet Irrigation Project, Or, How Sasyk Has Been Kept From the Sea. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.

irrigation, agriculture, coast, policy, river
article

Richardson, T. 2018b. Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta. Canadian Slavonic Papers.

multispecies, feral, cattle, policy
article

Richardson, T. 2023. Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War. Current History.

destruction, ecocide, resilience
article

Richardson, T. and Adamchuk, L. 2022. World Bee Day in Ukraine During the Russian Invasion. Bee Culture.

bee, apiaries, research
article

Richardson, T. and Tsymbalyuk, D. 2022. Environmental Humanities, Ukrainian Studies: It’s time to talk. NiCHE

anthropocentrism, Vernadsky, Sharleman
article

Richardson, T. and Tsymbalyuk, D. 2024. Constellations of Ukrainian Thought and the Environmental Humanities. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies

Ukrainian studies, environmental history, ecocriticism, resources
article

Semchuk, L. 2022. Beyond Anthropocentrism in Ukrainian Studies: Proposals from the Environmental Humanities. Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

breadbasket, resoursification, ecofeminism
article

Skubii, I. 2024. Russia’s war in Ukraine has been devastating for animals – but they’ve also given the nation reason for hope. The Conversation.

ecocide, pets, evacuation, social media, shelters, Patron, livestock
article

Sukhenko, I. 2017. “Ecological Identity Within Ecological Communication Studies”: the Ukrainian Vision. Dnipropetrovsk University Bulletin: Social Communications (SC), (article) (green, Chornobyl, ecological identity)

green, Chornobyl, ecological identity
article

Tsymbalyuk, D. 2020. Erasure: Russian Imperialism, My Research on Donbas.

imperialism, Donbas, Sharleman, resources
article

Tsymbalyuk, D. 2020. Пам’ять вугілля [The Memory of Coal], Korydor.

archive, coal, memory, Donbas
essay

Tsymbalyuk, D. 2023. I Dream of Seeing the Steppe Again: Plant Stories in the Context of Russia’s War on Ukraine. Narrative Culture: Vol. 10: Iss. 2.

war studies, artistic research
article

Tsymbalyuk, D. 2023. Колоніалізм та скорбота, в чому роль довкіллєвої гуманітаристики сьогодні – колонка Дар’ї Цимбалюк [Colonialism and Grief: The Role of Environmental Humanities Today – A Column by Daria Tsymbaliuk], Суспільне Культура.

environmental humanities, colonialism, climate change
column

Tsymbalyuk, D. 2024. Radiant absences. www.academia.edu. 

Donbas, memory, fossils, lanscape, steppe
article

Turnbull, J. 2020b. Mutant Firebugs. The Urban Field Naturalis.

bug, Chornobyl, radiation, pattern
article

Turnbull, J. 2021. Weird. Environmental Humanities.

environment, Chornobyl, loop, radiation
article

Turnbull, J. 2022. Checkpoint dogs: Photovoicing canine companionship in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Anthropology Today.

photovoice, companionship, guards
article

Turnbull, J. 2022. The Kyiv thickets, The Ecologist.

Vyrlytsia, queer, Koncha-Zaspa, wasteland, Horbachykha, art
article

Turnbull, J. forthcoming. Chornobyl as Laboratory? The Curious Case of CTVT. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies.

Chornobyl, Laboratory, Journal
article

Turnbull, J., Searle, A. and Jasper, S. 2021. Ecologies of Emptiness. Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy After (Post)Socialism.

emptiness, Chornobyl, wildlife
blog

Uskakovych, K. and Clod, A. 2025. From Black Coal to Black Earth, View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, 40.

Donbas, mining, gardening, community gardens, art
essay

Zaiets, D. 2022. Kharkiv’s shattered landscapes: observations from the front line of the war in Ukraine. European Societies.

landscapes, posthumanism, fragments, Kharkiv
article

Zamuruieva, I. 2021. «Фемінізм або смерть». Що таке екофемінізм і як він може змінити наше майбутнє [Feminism or Death: What is Ecofeminism and How Can It Change Our Future?], Commons.

Kateryna Hrushevska, more-than-human, ecofeminism, Marx, nature
article

Zamuruieva, I. 2023. Adonis vernalis dreamings: (re)making kin with a place. south/south movement. 

pheasant’s eye, land, Kropyvnytskyi, home, steppe
essay

Zamuruieva, I. 2024. Land After War. IWM. 

rapeseed, energy, diesel, pesticides
article

Zamuruieva, I. 2024. Something happens, somewhere.  

honeybee, agrochemicals, rapeseed, neonicotinoid, pesticides, Bayer
essay

Zamuruieva, I. Dyrenko, N. and Bondarenko L. 2024. Breaking Bread: weaponised landscapes in Ukraine, Kozarch

breadbasket, fuel, Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, chernozem
interview

Баздирєва, А. 2020. Україна й Антропоцен: земля. Korydor.

Anthropocene, mapping, geography, imperialism
article

Бурковський, О. 2022. Екосистеми України: Ціна глобальної продовольчої безпеки [Ecosystems of Ukraine: The Price of Global Food Security], Commons.

agriculture, farming, land, rewilding
article

Довжик, C. 2023. Атомна тривога Дикого поля: колонка кураторки Саші Довжик про ситуацію довкола Запорізької АЕС.Суспільне Культура.

Zaporizhzhia, Chornobyl, literature
column

Юбе, Д. 2024. Вибухонебезпечні залишки війни та екологічна бруталізація в Україні: порівняння з Великою війною [Explosive Remnants of War and Environmental Brutalization in Ukraine: A Comparison with the Great War], Commons.

World War II, explosives, land, farming, contamination
article

Projects & Exhibitions

Баздирєва, А. 2024. Куди прямує український модернізм? «Живописний заповідник» і стосунки з землею [Where is Ukrainian Modernism Heading? ‘Painted Reserve’ and Its Relationship with the Land], artslooker.

Silvashi, abstract art, landscape
article

Davies, T. 2018. The Red Forest: Picturing Radiation with Infrared Film. Toxic News.

Chornobyl, infrared, radiation
article

Echoes of the Earth. 2024

exhibition, collaboration, audiovisual
residency

Heart of Earth: 3D tour of the exhibition, 2023

Mystetskyi Arsenal, land, trauma, food security
exhibition

Карпінська, В. 2024. Городництво – це одна з практик, яка допомогла мені заземлитись»: Кароліна Ускакович про документальний фільм, у якому знімала свою бабусю, та дослідження теми довкілля. artslooker.

gardening, film, documentary, ecological knowledge, environmental humanities
interview

Кліматично-мистецькі лабораторії, 2019.

Anthropocene, art, residency, collaboration
residency

Landscape as Monument, 2020.

Izolyatsia, nonhuman, collaboration, cultural landscape, residency
residency

Pogrebnyak, O. 2023. Thickets, Groves, Woods and Bushes: An Exhibition of Resilience and Renewal in Kyiv. Blok.

home, landscape, exhibition, environment
review

Pogrebnyak, O. & Burzyński, A. 2023. What River Roars About: A Curatorial Tour of the Exhibition. Blok.

landscape, exhibition, environment, futures, decolonisation
review

Turnbull, J. and Hedley, T. 2019. Radioactive Wildlife: Canids in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review.

wildlife, Chernobyl, radioactivity
article

Lectures & videos

Ecoaction YouTube

Russia’s Ecocide in Ukraine, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Ukrainian Environmental Humanities YouTube

Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group YouTube

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  • Kateryna Aliinyk
  • Kateryna Polianska
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