Ukraine and the changing nature of war: geopolitics, challenges, narratives

Wed 18 May 2022
16:00 (Eastern European Time) 

Yuliya Yurchenko, University of Greenwich (UK):
Ukraine and the changing nature of war: geopolitics, challenges, narratives

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/UkraineVoices 

Speaker bio
Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer and researcher in political economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute and the Economics and International Business Department, the University of Greenwich (UK).

Her research focuses on state/society/capital complexes and transnational class formation, and on the political economy of post-Soviet countries. She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2018) and many other publications, including in Capital and Class and New Political Economy.

She is vice-chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (European Sociological Association), co-coordinator of the World Economy working group, IIPPE, and an editor for Capital and Class and Global Political Economy. 

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The lecture forms part of the “Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the Fore” lecture series is jointly organized by the HEPP research group and its Now-Time Us-Space Kone Foundation project at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Aleksanteri Institute at Faculty of Arts, from the University of Helsinki, as well as the Degree Programme of Politics from Tampere University. This lecture is sponsored by the Postcape research project (Academy of Finland) at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. 

More information: anni.kangas [at] tuni.fi