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Memeing War dives into the lives of ordinary Ukrainians as they face the devastating Russian countrywide invasion beginning in February 2022. To better understand the struggles they endured, Memeing War analyses the war through the study of the tens of thousands of memes that circulated throughout the war. The memes are a mirror of contemporary Ukrainian culture and society, a body of digital folklore, and the book will chronicle how struggles of war are pictured in memes through the lenses of Ukrainian national culture. The memes are at times dark and calling upon gallows humor, to provide Ukrainians both hope and at times comic relief. These memes, though not tangible weapons of war, did help the citizenry carry on through bombings and needless death. The book provides an insider’s perspective as Daria Antsybor applies her analysis of memes and folklore to provide a telling account of life in Ukraine. The book will also call upon literature dealing with identity and nation, Michel Bouchard’s primary research focus, to explain how memes helped to forge a nation that fought on with memes through the bleakest days. Beginning with the analysis of the emergence of revolutionary memes (Revolution of Dignity also knows as Euromaidan in 2013 rooted in the earlier Orange Revolution) and how this tradition of memeing detonated and mushroomed following Russia’s revanchist invasion to undo the legacy of Ukraine’s push to democracy and European integration.
Price: $34.00
Pages: 250
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Ukrainian Voices
Publication Date:
01 June 2026
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838220406
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet
Michel Bouchard (Author)
Michel Bouchard was born and raised in a French-speaking community in Northern Alberta in the shadow of the historical fur economy, he has researched ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia. He has his BA from the University of Toronto, MA from Université Laval and PhD from the University of Alberta. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia. He has studied the history of French-speaking populations in Western North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. This past decade, he has studied Métis ethnogenesis and has published several books examining historical Métis communities. Dr. Bouchard served as President of the Canadian Anthropology Society and is currently serving as secretary for both the World Council of Anthropological Associations and the World Anthropological Union. He is now shifting his research to examine issues of identity, nation and resistance in the study of memes, notably focusing on Ukraine.
Daria Antsybor (Author)
Daria Antsybor is a research fellow at the State Scientific Center of Cultural Heritage Protection from Technogenic Catastrophes in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied folklore in Institute of Philology in Kyiv National University of Taras Shevchenko. Her dissertation was dedicated to the genres of the oneiric folklore. She specializes in wartime folklore, vernacular medicine, crisis humour and anthropology of dreams. She is a member of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. She created a Telegram channel “Mushrooms, coffins and dissertations” promoting knowledge about traditional and modern cultural practices. She is a co-author of the anthropological podcast “Porobleno”. She wrote two non-fiction books “Under the pillow or under the tree” (Kyiv, Laboratoria 2023) and ""Dreads, battles and steels: two centuries of subcultures in Ukraine (Kyiv, Laboratoria 2024)"". Currently she is examining the nature of crisis humour in Ukraine and vernacular healing practices on Polissia.
Michel Bouchard was born and raised in a French-speaking community in Northern Alberta in the shadow of the historical fur economy, he has researched ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia. He has his BA from the University of Toronto, MA from Université Laval and PhD from the University of Alberta. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia. He has studied the history of French-speaking populations in Western North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. This past decade, he has studied Métis ethnogenesis and has published several books examining historical Métis communities. Dr. Bouchard served as President of the Canadian Anthropology Society and is currently serving as secretary for both the World Council of Anthropological Associations and the World Anthropological Union. He is now shifting his research to examine issues of identity, nation and resistance in the study of memes, notably focusing on Ukraine.
Daria Antsybor (Author)
Daria Antsybor is a research fellow at the State Scientific Center of Cultural Heritage Protection from Technogenic Catastrophes in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied folklore in Institute of Philology in Kyiv National University of Taras Shevchenko. Her dissertation was dedicated to the genres of the oneiric folklore. She specializes in wartime folklore, vernacular medicine, crisis humour and anthropology of dreams. She is a member of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. She created a Telegram channel “Mushrooms, coffins and dissertations” promoting knowledge about traditional and modern cultural practices. She is a co-author of the anthropological podcast “Porobleno”. She wrote two non-fiction books “Under the pillow or under the tree” (Kyiv, Laboratoria 2023) and ""Dreads, battles and steels: two centuries of subcultures in Ukraine (Kyiv, Laboratoria 2024)"". Currently she is examining the nature of crisis humour in Ukraine and vernacular healing practices on Polissia.