‘Rescuing Ukrainian agency, expertise, and patronage: on the historical cartography of Ukraine and maps in times of war'

Abstract

In the fields of critical geography and cartography, Ukrainians between empires have not lacked states or the national agency to make maps, but there have been severe conceptual and empirical limitations imposed upon map production, consumption, and circulation over the course of Ukraine’s early modern and modern history. Such restrictions can be viewed geopolitically and regionally, and externally and internally to Ukraine. Ukrainian expertise is visible in humanistic stories of displaced map-minded men and women. Ukraine’s ethnographic and diasporic cultures of map collecting exist apart from common educational and functional purposes of previous European ‘ethnic' or Soviet Russocentric nationalities traditions.