“For Our Boys and Girls”: Liana Blikharska on Ukrainian Volunteer Movement

Liana Blikharska is currently working on a project documenting the phenomenon of the Ukrainian volunteer movement. She divides it into three periods: the Revolution of Dignity, the War in Donbas, and the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian War. Contrary to a widespread belief that Ukrainian volunteers are usually younger, Liana focuses her research on stories of older volunteers.
In this video, Liana Blikharska focuses on her transformation from a researcher to a volunteer and then back to a researcher, NGOs as an ecosystem, and the work of the Territory of Terror Museum.
This project is supported by Documenting Ukraine, a program of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). Learn more about the program: www.iwm.at/documenting-ukraine