Les civils ukrainiens et la mobilité restreinte sous la guerre totale de la Russie contre l’Ukraine

6ème session du Séminaire interne du CEFRES 2025-2026
Par la présentation de recherches en cours, l’objectif du Séminaire du CEFRES est de soulever et de soumettre à la discussion des questions de méthodes, d’approches ou de concepts, dans un esprit pluridisciplinaire, permettant à chacun de croiser ses propres perspectives avec les travaux présentés.

Lieu : bibliothèque du CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 et en ligne (pour obtenir le lien, écrivez à cefres(@)cefres.cz)
Date : mardi 3 mars 2026, 16 h 30
Langue : anglais

Intervenante : Ruslana KOZIIENKO (CEFRES / CEU)
Discutant : Martin FOTTA (Institut d’ethnologie AV ČR)

Résumé

As a whole, this research focuses on the experiences of adult civilian men in Ukraine as affected by the limited mobility under martial law, which was introduced in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion. The restricted mobility resulted from the travel ban, which prohibited men between 18 and 60, with few exceptions, from traveling outside Ukraine, as well as from mobilization processes within the country. Among the major foci of the project are the wartime transformations of citizenship, the coping strategies civilian men develop to sustain themselves and their families, and the transformations of civilian men’s masculinities and subjectivities under the conditions of constrained mobility and limited freedom.

The paper presented during the seminar will particularly discuss the transformations and contestations of citizenship and of what it means to be a “good” (male) citizen in times of war. By examining the situation through the lens of “citizenship as alterity” (Isin 2002), the presentation will look at the emergence of different categories of citizens over the first three and a half years of the war. It will further focus on the (re)defined relationship between citizenship and territory, and how the latter, being vested with new meanings under martial law, began to (co)produce new forms of alterity. Finally, it will consider acts of illegal border crossing as potential “acts of citizenship” (Isin 2008; Isin and Saward 2013) through which men contest citizenship and attempt to reclaim their body, subjectivity, and right to mobility.