@emmamateo
Researching protest, civil society and war - mostly in Ukraine and Belarus Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Formerly NYU Jordan Center & Columbia U Harriman Institute PhD in Sociology from University of Oxford.
Logo for Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, labeled as #OpenAccess on a blue background.
#OpenAccess from @nationalitiesp.bsky.social -
‘Together We Are Many’: Activist Networks and Regional Protest in Ukraine 1990-2004 - https://cup.org/4q3X7NL
- @emmamateo.bsky.social
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Ukraine has a long, regionally diverse history of protest and resistance — one that long predates today’s fight against Russian invasion.
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I look at how these protests unfolded across Ukraine's regions, and how different activist networks helped organise & connect them nationwide. This matters because there’s limited research (esp. in English) on what was happening nationwide during these protests
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The article maps three major protest waves:
• 1990 Revolution on Granite
• 2000–01 Ukraine Without Kuchma
• 2004 Orange Revolution
[Image: location of protest events during 1990 Revolution on Granite]
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📢 New peer-reviewed (and open access!) article out with
@nationalitiesp.bsky.social
“Together We Are Many”: Activist Networks and Regional Protest in Ukraine, 1990–2004.
I examine the regional dimension of mass protests in Ukraine, and the activist networks that shaped them.
cup.org/4q3X7NL
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Harriman Institute's 2-year postdocs are open for applications. It's a dream postdoc gig in NYC for early career researchers working on Ukraine or wider Eastern Europe. My first job out of PhD and I loved it.
Please share - it's tough out there for ECRs!
harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...
I wrote about Ukraine's recent anti-corruption protests for Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
28+ cities rapidly mobilised to defend democracy. Ukraine's civil society is vibrant as ever. Ukrainians will not accept a terrible deal in an attempt to end the war
www.huri.harvard.edu/zelenskys-an...
Huge congratulations Taylor - on both finishing, and the postdoc!
Nights in Kyiv increasingly resemble scenes from a film about the Nazi bombing of London: machine gun crews on the roads, air raid sirens that lasted for hours, metro stations packed with people, searchlights in the night sky, searching for Russian drones, explosions from ballistic missiles... -
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I'm now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, continuing my work on protest & wartime civil society in 🇺🇦. I'm excited and grateful to be joining the Harvard/HURI community.
Thankful to @nyujordancenter.bsky.social and lovely colleagues there for a great year!
Congratulations!
A powerful piece of work by Dafna on what drives social workers who risk their lives to help the marginalised during russia's war on Ukraine
sounds like a fascinating thesis!
Childhood in Ukraine, thanks to putin and all who enable him.
Join us in NYC this week at @nyujordancenter.bsky.social to hear @oxanashevel.bsky.social speak about Russia's invasion and Ukraine's resistance, for the inaugural Rybak Family Ukrainian Lecture.
24 April, 5pm, 19 University Place. Registration required.
jordanrussiacenter.org/events/russi...
On Palm Sunday, Russia launched a brutal double-tap attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least 35 people.
The Kyiv Independent visited Sumy on April 14, the day after the attack.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0RA...
1/ #Belarus remains in a deep human rights crisis.
Since 2020, over 8,100+ people have faced politically motivated prosecution. Repression of activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens continues.
Here’s a latest update ⬇️
Thank you for sharing - the link is broken FYI
Olga Burlyuk for @platformraam.nl:
On intellectual pain, by 'a scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine'
Excited to share our new article "Reframing #Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia's War against Ukraine" with @marniehowlett.bsky.social in @cpcs.bsky.social. DM us if you need a copy! online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
Thrilled to see my new article with @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social out in @cpcs.bsky.social!
Reminder that this is happening tomorrow, 9th April. A wonderful opportunity to learn more about Ukrainian activism and culture in Eastern Ukraine, from the brilliant scholar Kateryna Zarembo.
Zarembo combines academia with volunteering as a paramedic on the frontlines.
📢 Join the Harriman Institute and NYU Jordan Center
for an online book talk on Eastern Ukraine’s history & activism with author Kateryna Zarembo & translator Tetiana Savchynska! Thrilled to see this important book translated.
📅 April 9 | ⏲️ 11am ET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/UAsunrise
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, Tornike! Really interesting.
I spoke at yesterday’s Vigil for Democracy at Columbia. Here is an excerpt.
This is a very interesting read, and very cool to see data on diverse protest events across the US that are not necessarily being widely reported. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
And yet Europe has the problems with freedom of speech. This is wild.
This country is really blowing my mind every single day. Not in a good way. (I wonder if I can get deported for saying that)
Classic russian negotation tactics - ceding nothing, and manipulating the situation to its own benefit.
Putin has allegedly already given the order to halt energy attacks, but air alerts ongoing across Ukraine right now.
I guess we all know russia targets civilians, not just infrastructure.
Нью-Йорк вчора. Yesterday there was a last minute protest in NYC organised in solidarity with Ukraine. Turnout was in the hundreds, despite the short notice. New Yorkers care about Ukraine.
Similar events were being organised in 20 cities across the US.