Against academic "resourcification": collaboration as delinking from extractivist "area studies" paradigms

• Published in: Canadian Slavonic papers Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 163 - 173
• Main Author: Donovan, Victoria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edmonton Routledge 03.04.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Area studies; Collaboration; collaborative methods; Cultural instruction; Decolonization; Ethics; Extraction; extractivism; Geopolitics; Local knowledge; Paradigms; Production; Regional studies; resourcification; Ukraine; Ukraine

This article engages Asia Bazdyrieva's idea of the "resourcification" of Ukraine - that is, the reduction of Ukraine in Soviet and Western geopolitical imaginations to a mere extraction resource - to develop and criticize the idea of "academic resourcification." The author a...