New Issue of Journal "Krytyka": Now Available

Thu Dec 15 22:34:37 UTC 2011

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Рік XV, Число 7–8 (165–166)

Євген Головаха. Пів терміну в пустелі
Андреас Умланд. На радикалів немає Ради
Ярослав Грицак. Хто такі українці і  
чого вони хочуть
Сергій Куделя. Еліксир ефективної  
демократії
Джеймс Ґлік. Як «Ґуґл» опановує нас
Марія Маєрчик. Жінка в замісі  
патріярхальних традицій
Сергій Єкельчик. Українські культури  
на всі часи
Ольга Кирилова. Українська  
культурологія у східно-західних  
контекстах
Андрій Портнов. Мученицька смерть  
мільйонів і перспективи теоретичної  
рефлексії
Маріус Івашкявічюс. Ностальгія на два  
боки
Мацей Матвіюв. Польський науковець на  
совєтській панщині
Александер Кратохвіль. Надзвичайний і  
повноважний перекладач
Євген Мінко. Передсмертне життя  
перформансу

Year XV, Issue 7–8 (165–166)

Ievhen Holovakha. Ukrainian Society: Wandering in the Desert (a  
Reduced Sentence).
Yaroslav Hrytsak. Who are the Ukrainians and What do They Want?
Andreas Umland. An Anomalous Politicum: Ukraine without Radicals.
Serhiy Kudelia. Effective Democracy Potion.
Andrii Portnov. The Martyrdom of Millions: Some Theoretical Reflections.
Serhy Yekelchyk. Writing the History of Ukrainian Culture before,  
under, and after Communism.
Olga Kyrylova. Cultural Studies in Ukraine in the Western and Eastern  
Contexts: An Attempt of Self-Reflecion.
James Gleick. How Google Dominates Us.
Marius Ivaškevičius. Two Sides of Nostalgia.
Maria Mayerchyk. Woman on a Patriarchal Leash.
Maciej Matwijów. A Polish Scholar in Soviet Serfdom.
Alexander Kratochvil. Translator Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Ievhen Minko. After Life and Death.

SUMMARY OF ARTICLES
The 7-8 (165-166) issue of Krytyka opens with three articles that  
examine the changes in Ukraine during the twenty years of independence.

In “Ukrainian Society: Wandering in the Desert (a Reduced  
Sentence)” philosopher and sociologist Ievhen Holovakha of the  
Institute of Sociology sums up the survey results the Institute has  
been carrying out since 1992. Tracking the changes in the identities,  
priorities, and preferences of Ukrainians, Golovakha records a slow  
shift in mainstream thinking: from paternalist expectations to a  
critical approach to institutes and policies.

The historian Yaroslav Hrytsak in “Who Are the Ukrainians and What Do  
They Want?” explains why the main conflict within Ukrainian society  
is not the conflict between the two national projects, but the  
conflict of two  types of modernity, and Ukrainians should change the  
agenda of national debates to focused on sets of values, not of  
identities.

In his “An Anomalous Politicum: Ukraine without Radicals” Andreas  
Umland, DAAD Associate Professor of German and European Studies at  
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, examines the role of right-wing radicals on the  
Ukrainian political scene—and their surprisingly marginal nature.

In his “Effective Democracy Potion” Serhiy Kudelia of George  
Washington University, armed with Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of  
Political Order, examines Ukrainian political institutes and their  
capacity for building liberal democracy.

In his “The Martyrdom of Millions: Some Theoretical Reflections”  
Kyiv historian Andrii Portnov, continues Krytyka’s discussion  
regarding Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands.

Serhy Yekelchyk of the University of Victoria provides in “Writing  
the History of Ukrainian Culture before, under and after Communism”  
an extensive review of various textbooks on the history of Ukrainian  
culture from Ivan Ohienko wartime (1918) Ukrainian Culture to various  
recent ones—all of which fall into similar ideological traps.

Olga Kyrylova, associate professor at the National Mykhailo Drahomanov  
Pedagogical University, begins where Yekelchyk stops: in her  
“Cultural Studies in Ukraine in the Western and Eastern contexts: an  
Attempt of Self-Reflection” she deals with the issues of the genesis,  
the representatives, the academic scholarship and other works in the  
field of “Cultural Studies” (“culturology”) in Ukraine.

Krytyka has recently become the exclusive partner of The New York  
Review of Books in Ukraine. “How Google Dominates Us” by James  
Gleick is the first article Krytyka now provides in Ukrainian  
translation. A journalist and biographer, Gleick tries to grasp the  
Google phenomenon – along with the authors of various books on this  
topic, both rhapsodizing and demonizing the rise of Google’s power.

The Lithuanian novelist Marius Ivaškevičius reveals the palimpsest  
nature of Lithuanian everyday life in his essay “Two Sides of  
Nostalgia”, which takes a sad and ironic look at his Soviet childhood  
and several “lost generations” that he has seen.

In her review “Woman on a Patriarchal Leash” Maria Mayerchyk, a  
social anthropologist from Kyiv, welcomes A Female in Traditional  
Ukrainian Culture by Oksana Kis, the first ethnographic study of  
females that deconstructs gender regimes in Ukrainian pre-Industrial  
culture. Yet she questions how precisely the declared approach of  
social constructionalism is to be maintained.

In “A Polish Scholar in Soviet Serfdom” Maciej Matwijów of  
Wrocław Universty recounts the story of Polish academician Mieczysław  
Gąbarowicz, and his struggle to maintain high academic standards under  
Soviet rule in post-War Lviv.

In his memorial essay “Translator Extraordinary and  
Plenipotentiary,” Alexander Kratochvil of Konstanz University,  
Germany, writes on the prominent translator Anna-Halja Horbatsch and  
her work in promoting Ukrainian literature in the German-speaking world.

In July 2011 Ukrainian essayist Ievhen Minko visited the world  
premiere of “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović” at the  
Manchester International Festival. In “After Life and Death” he  
provides an overview of the intellectual and art biography of Marina  
Abramović, “the grandmother of performance art,” and also ponders  
the paradox she faced at the height of her fame.
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