Presentations by Streams

Social scientists have long argued that wars are profoundly transformative - be it by making and breaking social identities and bonds through discipline and combat, or because of death and destruction, the economic/social toll of organising large scale warfare, or by forging new social networks among and across combatants and civilians as groups, forging new and transforming old relations between state, society, and capital as social agents in dynamically changing shapes. This panel proposes to investigate the transformative effects of the war in Donbas and Crimea and the large scale Russo-Ukrainian war, both on Ukraine and Russian Federation and their displaced, refugee, and fleeing populations. Papers in this panel consider the transformative effects of war on society, particularly from the perspective of political economy. We present grounded and (micro-)empirical accounts that also zoom out to consider effects on the broader region itself (here understood as the post-Soviet space) and on the global dimensions of multivariate security (dis)orders, migration and climate politics, imperialism(s), de- and post-coloniality. The multi-scalar frame of historicised accounts developed through economic anthropology, sociology and feminist political economy engaged in this panel are particularly needed at this time.