Lives altered by war : civilian volunteering amid the Donbas war in Ukraine /

"With Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of the Donbas war in 2014, Ukraine faced a new and shocking reality. Amid the turmoil, anxiety, and a critical shortage of resources caused by the violence, civilians swiftly mobilized to respond to urgent humanitarian and milita...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stepaniuk, Nataliia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.
Subjects:	Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- > Social aspects > Ukraine > Donbas (Region) Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- > Personal narratives, Ukrainian. Civilians in war > Ukraine > Donbas (Region) Volunteers > Ukraine > Donbas (Region) Ethnology > Ukraine > Donbas (Region) Civilians in war. Military service, Voluntary. Ukraine.

Table of Contents:

"Army with No Bullets": Civilian Mobilization amid Limited State Capacity
Volunteer Demographic Profile, Motivations, and Pathways to Engagement
Another Front: Women's Engagement and the Gendered Division of Labour
"We've Come to See Ourselves as a Nation": The Strengthening of National Attachment
Language as a Battlefield: Shifting Language Ideologies in Volunteer Communities
Reimagining Citizenship through Community-Driven Engagement.