*[Enwl-eng] Ukraine diaries: Life after war

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      From our own ethnographic correspondent
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      This week, our own ethnographic correspondent reports from the war in 
Ukraine. The French researcher Romain Huët is no stranger to conflict. The 
Conversation France ran a first series of his observations in Ukraine 
between April and August 2022, and he has covered the 2018 Syrian war. While 
his first series looked at how the Russian invasion ripped through the lives 
of ordinary people, turning them into volunteers, drivers and fighters, this 
new piece raises the question of continuity: how do people return to a 
semblance of normality as the frontline shifts further away? To find out, he 
revisits the regions he left in August: Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kramatorsk in the 
Donbas.

      Of course, life is anything but normal for those affected by the 
Kakhova dam breach in Southern Ukraine. Joining the Ukrainian authorities, 
the United Nations have described it as an "ecological catastrophe". In 
Bonn, meanwhile, the international organisation is overseeing interim 
climate talks in the run-up to COP28 in Dubai. Given the negotiations' dire 
record of achieving climate action over the past 30 years, you would be 
forgiven for wanting to switch off. Yet a new paper published in Nature 
Climate Change shows implementing current national climate pledges could be 
enough to stabilise global heating to around 1.7-1.8°C above pre-industrial 
levels.

      Regardless of what level of warming we reach, it is clear present and 
future generations face the prospect of living in a radically altered 
environment. And not just by climate change: AI, space travel, and potential 
shifts in social values and geopolitical tensions. In a bold piece, a group 
of academics from Oxford University imagine scenarios of how activity in 
outer-space might impact upon inequality on earth.

      In other environmental news, scientists fear a Spanish irrigation law 
could dry up one of Europe's largest wetlands, the Doñana National Park. 
Another article looks into the unsavoury world of animal culling in Sweden, 
bringing insights into our fickle rapport to wildlife. It will come as a 
surprise to no one that while municipal cullers can dispose of certain 
animals' carcasses unceremoniously, they may need police protection for 
others considered more lovable.

      Finally, we are excited to bring you a Q&A with Ludovic Slimak, one of 
the archeologists on a mission to overhaul our understanding of how 
Neanderthal and Sapiens lived – and interacted – in Europe 54,000 years ago.

      - Natalie Sauer, head of the English section for The Conversation 
France


      Ukraine diaries: almost a year on, French ethnographer returns to 
document the war
      A year after two stays several weeks-long in war-torn Ukraine, 
ethnographer Romain Huët has gone back there. From Kyiv to the Donbas, he is 
on a quest to understand how the war has changed Ukrainians.

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      Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2023 2:02 PM
      Subject: Ukraine diaries: Life after war

 
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