Memeing War: The Digital Folklore Memetic Mirror of Contemporary Ukrainian Culture and Society

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Michel Bouchard Daria Antsybor

Memeing War

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The Digital Folklore Memetic Mirror of Contemporary Ukrainian Culture and Society

Michel Bouchard, Daria Antsybor, Andreas Umland

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English

ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
01 June 2026

Cultural studies; Media studies; Digital lifestyle

Series: Ukrainian Voices

Memeing War dives into the lives of ordinary Ukrainians as they face the devastating Russian countrywide invasion beginning in February 2022. To better understand the struggles they endured, Memeing War analyses the war through the study of the tens of thousands of memes that circulated throughout the war. The memes are a mirror of contemporary Ukrainian culture and society, a body of digital folklore, and the book will chronicle how struggles of war are pictured in memes through the lenses of Ukrainian national culture. The memes are at times dark and calling upon gallows humor, to provide Ukrainians both hope and at times comic relief. These memes, though not tangible weapons of war, did help the citizenry carry on through bombings and needless death. The book provides an insider's perspective as Daria Antsybor applies her analysis of memes and folklore to provide a telling account of life in Ukraine. The book will also call upon literature dealing with identity and nation, Michel Bouchard's primary research focus, to explain how memes helped to forge a nation that fought on with memes through the bleakest days. Beginning with the analysis of the emergence of revolutionary memes (Revolution of Dignity also knows as Euromaidan in 2013 rooted in the earlier Orange Revolution) and how this tradition of memeing detonated and mushroomed following Russia's revanchist invasion to undo the legacy of Ukraine's push to democracy and European integration.

By: Michel Bouchard, Daria Antsybor
Series edited by: Andreas Umland
Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: Paperback original
Dimensions: Height: 21mm, Width: 15mm,
ISBN: 9783838220406
ISBN 10: 3838220404
Series: Ukrainian Voices
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 01 June 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.