Russian-occupied Crimea and the state of exception: repression, persecution, and human rights violations

Coynash, Halya; Charron, Austin

doi:10.1080/15387216.2019.1625279

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“…In Ukraine, there are various Indigenous, ethnographic groups, ranging from the Tatars in Crimea, who are currently facing intensified persecution due to Russia's occupation (Coynash and Charron, 2019), to the highlanders in the eastern Carpathian Mountains: including Hutsuls in Hutsulshchyna (Figure 4), Boykos, in the Bystrytsia Solotvynska River Basin, and Lemkos, in the Low and Middle Beskyd Mountains (Magocsi, 1997). Archaeological evidence points to human existence in the region dating back to 100,000 years before present (Stech, 2007).…”

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Traditional ecological knowledge to traditional foods: The path to maintaining food sovereignty in Hutsulshchyna

Fontana¹,

Pasailiuk²,

Pohribnyi³

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The various ecosystems of the Carpathian Mountains spanning Europe, are a rich refuge for culturally important, endemic plant species as well as large carnivores. These biologically diverse landscapes are a principal source of subsistence to 16 million people, including various ethnographic groups. This paper focuses on a case study involving Hutsul communities, an ethnographic group of traditional pastoral highlanders, in the Southeastern Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine. Given ecosystem, climatic, and cultural challenges, especially the rise of illegal logging, commercial harvesting, increased frequencies of flooding, and now a war, Hutsul communities face extensive threats to maintaining socio-ecological resilience in the region. A contributing factor to the region's centuries-long resilience is traditional ecological knowledge upholding food sovereignty as seen through traditional foods derived from Carpathian Mountain ecosystems. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is as a dynamic, generationally-held knowledge base, where language, gathering practices, landscape and culture inform livelihoods. In this article, we seek to answer the following series of questions within Hutsul communities: (1) What does TEK look like in the region? (2) What are the regional environmental challenges? (3) Given these challenges, what are coping mechanisms and adaptive strategies grounded in TEK, ensuring a resilient food sovereign system? Mixed methodologies guided by community-based participatory action research methods (CBPAR) between 2017 and 2019 provide a rich, context-driven perspective on regional TEK. Radiating out from the historical, cultural Hutsul capital, Verkhovyna, 40 experts (including knowledge holders, elders, foresters, and community members) were interviewed in 8 neighboring villages. We, along with Hutsul experts, explore the presence of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in Hutsulshchyna by identifying 108 culturally important species including wild plants (74 species), cultivated plants (23 species), fungi (9 species) and lichens (2 species); these species are gathered in 10 habitats with varying degrees of human interaction. We analyze species' presence in traditional foods in the past and present day, as well as contextualize regional environmental challenges impacting TEK practices, and responses to these challenges (coping mechanisms and adaptive strategies). Despite various regional challenges, we conclude that TEK provides a resilient foundation for supporting food sovereignty as seen through the presence of traditional foods.

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confidence: 99%

Traditional ecological knowledge to traditional foods: The path to maintaining food sovereignty in Hutsulshchyna

Fontana¹,

Pasailiuk²,

Pohribnyi³

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Незважаючи на те, що більшість мешканців Криму -росіяни (58,5%), для багатьох його жителів перебування у складі РФ, вочевидь, стало неприйнятною подією з точки зору політичної чи національної самоідентифікації й набуло ознак етноконфліктогенності. Найчастіше невдоволення висловлюють кримські татари та українці -вони перманентно зазнають дискримінації з боку російських державних структур у Криму (Coynash 2019;Zubkovych 2020). Уже в перший рік анексії, як свідчить перепис населення Криму, проведений у РФ (2014 р.…”

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About annexed Crimea in online encyclopedias worldwide

Mykola¹,

Oleksandr²

2022

IERAR

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The study is devoted to the definition the present status of Crimea in general encyclopedias worldwide (investigated 13 online encyclopedias). Differences in the analyzed encyclopedias on the interpretation of the political status of Crimea are manifested despite the fact that encyclopedias are recognized compendium of clear, objective knowledge. In most encyclopedias, we see attempts to present different views on this issue: there are both the official one defined international law according to which Crimea is Ukraine, and the unofficial one related to the actual control of Crimea by the Russian Federation. However, in some encyclopedias only one interpretation dominates, which states that Crimea is Russia.

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“…Since annexation in 2014, Russian authorities have sought to clamp down on activism challenging its legitimacy in Crimea (Gorbunova, 2020), which has increasing taken the guise of counterterrorism and counter-extremism (Savchuk, 2019;Kyzy, 2019;Coynash & Charron, 2019). This has been criticised by human rights groups as discriminatory and opaque, prosecuting individuals on statements made prior to annexation or evidence overwhelmingly challenged as falsified or planted.…”

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Resilience against counterterrorism?

McNeil-Willson

2021

Intersections

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This article examines how repression is being wielded by the Russian Federation in Crimea against Muslim Tatar communities under the guise of countering terrorism and violent extremism, and how non-violent resistance and grassroots resilience is being fostered as a means of countering securitisation. The case demonstrates how language developed within a Western security context are co-opted by authoritarian actors, how Islamic activist groups engage in activities that can be framed as ‘resilience-building’ through the language of human rights, freedom of press and democracy, and the issues raised by applying the term ‘resilience’ within a counterterrorism context—both in illiberal and liberal settings. The article finds that techniques comparable to concepts of resilience-building are being conducted in an illiberal setting by communities in response to, and as a counter against highly repressive articulations of counterterrorism. It also suggests that the term ‘resilience’ is problematic in this context, failing to adequately account for—and often actively obscuring—organisational activism of communities and their interaction with the political context. This offers an understanding of community-led responses against counterterrorism and counter-extremism as a tool of repression as well as examining the credibility of terms such as ‘resilience’ within CVE in Crimea and elsewhere.

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Russian-occupied Crimea and the state of exception: repression, persecution, and human rights violations

Cited by 21 publications

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Traditional ecological knowledge to traditional foods: The path to maintaining food sovereignty in Hutsulshchyna

Traditional ecological knowledge to traditional foods: The path to maintaining food sovereignty in Hutsulshchyna

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