Borderlands into Bordered Lands. Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine With a foreword by Dieter Segert

„[…] many academic readers will find the fieldwork portion of Zhurzhenko’s volume, as well as some of her theoretical analysis, informative and thought-provoking. […] Her detailed focus on the area and its problems is truly pioneering and is to be commended.“ (Anthropology of East Europe Review 30 (1), Spring 2012)

“[The] analytical structure and trajectory of Zhurzhenko’s work – travelling from broad historical time and geopolitical space to the here and now – practically means one could read it from the last chapter to the first as easily as the other, conventional, way around. I enjoyed immensely reading in the closing chapters the Ukrainian and Russian villagers’ own testimonies, their preoccupations, details of their changing lives. I could well have taken all this in first before proceeding to the so called bigger questions of state-to-state relations and the changing geopolitical architecture of Eastern Europe. Either way, it is a carefully constructed narrative about the advent of a border in people’s minds and across their land.” (Debatte, vol. 19, issue 1-2, 2011)