From GATHERING VOLUMES
Gathering Volumes will host an in-store book talk and signing for Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling, author of “Decolonizing Ukraine,” on Sunday, June 22, at 2:30 p.m. Gathering Volumes is at 196 East South Boundary in Perrysburg.
Greta Lynn Uehling is teaching professor of international and comparative studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of “Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars” (2004) and “Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine” (2023).
Uehling is broadly concerned with international migration and forced displacement, having examined the experiences of refugees, asylum seekers, and the internally displaced.
In “Decolonizing Ukraine, Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea from 2014 to the present, revealing the traumas of colonization, foreign occupation, and population displacement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in Ukraine, including more than 90 personal interviews, Uehling brings her readers into the lives of people who opposed Russia’s Crimean operation, many of whom fled for government-controlled Ukraine.
Elina Beketova, Democracy Fellow at Center for European Policy Analysis, says about “Decolonizing Ukraine”: “I cried, smiled with gratitude, and grieved alongside this book. As a Ukrainian from Crimea, reading it felt like reclaiming a lost piece of myself. The memories I had ‘forgotten’ were gently unraveled in a delicate process of remembrance and mutual recognition. Each page offered me the missing fragments of my past and present, presented with such tenderness that they seamlessly wove back into the tapestry of my life.”
“Decolonizing Ukraine” is available for purchase. For more information, call (567) 336-6188, email events@gatheringvolumes.com or visit: https://gatheringvolumes.com/events/46874
