Fellow 2025

INDEX-Center for Urban History - Spring 2025 1 April – 30 June 2025

Project: Life after Traumatic Limb Amputation in Ukraine

Ioulia Shukan's research focuses on forms of civic solidarity, care, and embodiment during the Russian-Ukrainian war. Her ethnographic study of women's experiences of volunteering and caring for wounded soldiers at the Kharkiv Military Hospital between 2014 and 2022 was published in June 2025 under the title Citoyennes soignantes. Guerre, femmes et fabrique du commun en Ukraine (Editions de la MSH).

With the Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Ioulia Shukan is investigating the relationship between war, its bodily experiences, and forms of solidarity with military personnel and civilians who have undergone traumatic limb amputation, analyzing global issues of post-amputation recovery, building a sustainable system of prosthetics and rehabilitation, and rethinking the inclusiveness of society in extreme times. During her residency as a fellow of INDEX and the Lviv Center for Urban History, Ioulia Shukan collected individual experiences of life after amputation and documented the bodily impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as the structural reconfigurations taking place in Ukraine in the areas of medical care, prosthetics, rehabilitation, and inclusion.

Ioulia Shukan

Ioulia Shukan is a French sociologist, full professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris), researcher at the Center of East-European, Russian, Caucasian and Cental-Asian studies (CERCEC). She is also a member of the organisational commitee of the annual research seminar in Ukrainian studies Danyliw Seminar (University of Ottawa, Canada)