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Dr Ekatherina Zhukova

Ekatherina

Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden

Email: ekatherina.zhukova@kau.se

Profile

I am interested in child experiences of crisis - whether disaster or conflict. I worked on the project exploring how small-scale humanitarian initiatives organized by Italy for the Chernobyl and Fukushima children have shaped their life trajectories. I am currently developing a new project idea on transnational surrogacy.

Research

Publications

Zhukova, E. 2022. “Chronic crisis and nuclear disaster humanitarianism: Recuperation of Chernobyl and Fukushima children in Italy”. Global Discourse, vol. 12, no. 3-4, pp. 616-637. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gd/12/3-4/article-p616.xml.

Zhukova, E. 2022. “Kinning as intimate disaster response: From recuperation in host families to educational migration of the Chernobyl children from Belarus to Italy”, Identities, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 205-222. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1686877?journalCode=gide20.

Zhukova, E. 2020. "Private humanitarian responses to disaster vulnerabilities: The Chernobyl children from Belarus in Italy", Childhood, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 238-253. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0907568220901747?journalCode=chda.

Zhukova, E. 2020. “Nuclear disaster as chronic crisis: Accounts of radiation embodiment by survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster from Belarus born before, in and after 1986,” Health, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 589–605. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363459319829190?journalCode=heaa.

Zhukova, E. 2020. “L’antropologia umanitaria: ripensare il ruolo dell’apolitico e del privato nello spazio umanitario”, Public Anthropologist Journal Blog, 8 December 2020. https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2020/12/08/lantropologia-umanitaria-ripensare-il-ruolo-dellapolitico-e-del-privato-nello-spazio-umanitario/.

Zhukova, E. 2020. “Kinning as intimate disaster response: The Chernobyl children from Belarus in Italy”, Identities Journal Blog, 18 March 2020. https://www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collection/kinning-as-intimate-disaster-response-the-chernobyl-children-from-belarus-in-italy.

Zhukova, E. 2019. Book Review: Humanitarianism and mass migration: Confronting the world crisis, edited by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Oakland, CA, University of California Press, Ross Institute, 2019. Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 610-612. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2019.1667010.

Zhukova, E. 2018. “The anthropology of humanitarianism: Rethinking the role of the apolitical and private in humanitarian space”, Public Anthropologist Journal Blog, 2 October 2018. https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2018/10/02/the-anthropology-of-humanitarianism-rethinking-the-role-of-the-apolitical-and-private-in-humanitarian-space/.

Zhukova, E. 2018. “Chernobyl brought Italy and Belarus closer together – their approach could do the same for other nations”, The Conversation, 8 May 2018. https://theconversation.com/chernobyl-brought-italy-and-belarus-closer-together-their-approach-could-do-the-same-for-other-nations-95820. 

Expertise

Feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives on childhood; child vulnerabilities and experiences of crisis - disasters or conflicts; transnational humanitarian and development assistance to children; transnational migration of children and youth; non-biological social bonds and relationship-making.
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