“And that’s how it was”: Small stories of big histories in post-Soviet Ukraine.
Doctoral project completed in 2021.
Funded by AHRC CHASE Doctoral Studentship
My PhD research investigated the transmission of alternative histories and memory in post-Maidan Ukraine. I carried out three periods of ethnographic fieldwork in Lviv, Ukraine, collecting life histories and examining the role of storytelling, material objects and landscape in the way the past is articulated.
I employed methods such as participant observation, storytelling, material culture, oral history and walking to carry out this research, and payed particular attention to the traumatic nature of memory and storytelling in the context in which I was working.