T Fedirko
Biographic Data
| ID | 46917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Fedirko |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Fedirko |
| SIGNATURE | FEDIRKO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9597-550X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
War and dependent state formation in Ukraine
This article examines the relationship between war-making and state-making in post-invasion Ukraine drawing on research among Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania and with Ukrainian military crowdfunding organizations. We argue that Ukraine is undergoing a process of dependent state formation. In the context of the war, the Ukrainian state has significantly expanded its military and political power while remaining economically dependent on foreig…
Modalities of Free Speech
While debates over freedom of speech have been a focus of renewed public and media attention over the past decade, anthropological literature focusing self-consciously and explicitly on the topic remained, until very recently, relatively thin on the ground. And yet questions of freedom of expression are treated tangentially in a range of anthropological literatures, including studies of publics, media and mediation, expertise, political subjectiv…
Ukraine, One Year On
The following conversation took place as an online round table organized by the Anthropology of Peace, Conflict, and Security research network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists on 14 March 2023. The aim of the round table was to create a space where Ukrainian anthropologists would reflect collectively on the anthropological approach to the invasion of Ukraine one year on. We asked them: What kinds of debates, narratives, imagi…
Failure and moral distinction in a Ukrainian marketplace of ideas
This essay examines the generative effects of claiming moral failure within a Ukrainian liberal movement for media reform in post-Maidan, pre-invasion Ukraine. The reformers wished to reorganize news reporting around the ideals of autonomy, balanced objectivity, impartiality, and corrigibility, which they believed underpinned Western media. They decried most Ukrainian media as failing such standards, highlighting the individual moral failure of j…
In the Shadow of Power
Cet article examine la relation entre l’économie politique et l’éthique du journalisme d’actualités en Ukraine, après la révolution de Maidan et avant l’invasion russe. J’explique pourquoi les journalistes, selon qu’ils travaillaient pour des médias indépendants ou pour les médias officiels, évaluent leur proximité vis-à-vis du pouvoir politique et économique en termes radicalement différents du point de vue de l’éthique. Dans les deux cas, le pr…
Liberalism in fragments
This article explores the place of liberal subjectivity in the professional culture of Ukrainian journalists to analyse how ideas originating in contexts of hegemonic liberalism at the core of the global capitalist system, are taken up on its postsocialist margins. I outline how certain Anglo-American notions of good journalistic practice, which encode traits of liberal subjectivity, are borrowed and elaborated by a Western-funded movement for an…
Grammars of liberalism
Liberalism has been fundamental to the making of the modern world, at times shaping basic assumptions as to the nature of the political, and in other cases existing as a delimited political project in contention with others. Across its long history, liberal projects have taken a diverse range of forms, which resist easy reduction to a single logic or history. This diversity, however, has often escaped anthropological attention. In this introducti…
Freedom of Speech
Free speech is a familiar concept. It is an established ideal of liberalism and democratic politics, and the subject of political debate and conflict across diverse historical and cultural contexts. Free speech has not primarily been considered, however, as a set of lived, valued, and contested practices, mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms. While anthropology has not traditionally occupied itself with free speech, it has …
Suspicion and expertise
This article explores the relation between suspicion and expertise in the context of activist investigations of offshore corruption. I reconstruct one investigation of alleged corruption in the Azerbaijani oil sector, conducted by a British organization called Global Witness, to explore how suspicion is learned and practised in the face of impenetrable offshore secrecy. For these detectives of global capital, suspicion is both a tool for arriving…
Self-censorship narrated
Bringing together empirical studies of former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, this Special Issue explores the relationship between censorship and self-censorship. All the cases under consideration share a history of state-led censorship. Importantly, however, the authors argue that journalism in the former Eastern bloc has developed features similar to those observed in many countries which have never experienced state socialis…
“I'd Rather Pay”
In the last two decades, bribery has been a salient issue in social science research in general and anthropology in particular. The subject poses considerable challenges to ethnographic research, and therefore many aspects remain understudied. My article addresses one of them, namely, the relationship between bribery, networking, ‘petty’ informality, and everyday social relations within the bureaucratic domain. I argue that bribery becomes possib…
Failure and moral distinction in a Ukrainian marketplace of ideas
This essay examines the generative effects of claiming moral failure within a Ukrainian liberal movement for media reform in post-Maidan, pre-invasion Ukraine. The reformers wished to reorganize news reporting around the ideals of autonomy, balanced objectivity, impartiality, and corrigibility, which they believed underpinned Western media. They decried most Ukrainian media as failing such standards, highlighting the individual moral failure of j…
In the Shadow of Power
Cet article examine la relation entre l’économie politique et l’éthique du journalisme d’actualités en Ukraine, après la révolution de Maidan et avant l’invasion russe. J’explique pourquoi les journalistes, selon qu’ils travaillaient pour des médias indépendants ou pour les médias officiels, évaluent leur proximité vis-à-vis du pouvoir politique et économique en termes radicalement différents du point de vue de l’éthique. Dans les deux cas, le pr…
Self-censorship narrated
Bringing together empirical studies of former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, this Special Issue explores the relationship between censorship and self-censorship. All the cases under consideration share a history of state-led censorship. Importantly, however, the authors argue that journalism in the former Eastern bloc has developed features similar to those observed in many countries which have never experienced state socialis…
Freedom of Speech
Free speech is a familiar concept. It is an established ideal of liberalism and democratic politics, and the subject of political debate and conflict across diverse historical and cultural contexts. Free speech has not primarily been considered, however, as a set of lived, valued, and contested practices, mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms. While anthropology has not traditionally occupied itself with free speech, it has …
Suspicion and expertise
This article explores the relation between suspicion and expertise in the context of activist investigations of offshore corruption. I reconstruct one investigation of alleged corruption in the Azerbaijani oil sector, conducted by a British organization called Global Witness, to explore how suspicion is learned and practised in the face of impenetrable offshore secrecy. For these detectives of global capital, suspicion is both a tool for arriving…
“I'd Rather Pay”
In the last two decades, bribery has been a salient issue in social science research in general and anthropology in particular. The subject poses considerable challenges to ethnographic research, and therefore many aspects remain understudied. My article addresses one of them, namely, the relationship between bribery, networking, ‘petty’ informality, and everyday social relations within the bureaucratic domain. I argue that bribery becomes possib…
Self-censorship narrated
Bringing together empirical studies of former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, this Special Issue explores the relationship between censorship and self-censorship. All the cases under consideration share a history of state-led censorship. Importantly, however, the authors argue that journalism in the former Eastern bloc has developed features similar to those observed in many countries which have never experienced state socialis…
Liberalism in fragments
This article explores the place of liberal subjectivity in the professional culture of Ukrainian journalists to analyse how ideas originating in contexts of hegemonic liberalism at the core of the global capitalist system, are taken up on its postsocialist margins. I outline how certain Anglo-American notions of good journalistic practice, which encode traits of liberal subjectivity, are borrowed and elaborated by a Western-funded movement for an…
Grammars of liberalism
Liberalism has been fundamental to the making of the modern world, at times shaping basic assumptions as to the nature of the political, and in other cases existing as a delimited political project in contention with others. Across its long history, liberal projects have taken a diverse range of forms, which resist easy reduction to a single logic or history. This diversity, however, has often escaped anthropological attention. In this introducti…
Freedom of Speech
Free speech is a familiar concept. It is an established ideal of liberalism and democratic politics, and the subject of political debate and conflict across diverse historical and cultural contexts. Free speech has not primarily been considered, however, as a set of lived, valued, and contested practices, mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms. While anthropology has not traditionally occupied itself with free speech, it has …
Suspicion and expertise
This article explores the relation between suspicion and expertise in the context of activist investigations of offshore corruption. I reconstruct one investigation of alleged corruption in the Azerbaijani oil sector, conducted by a British organization called Global Witness, to explore how suspicion is learned and practised in the face of impenetrable offshore secrecy. For these detectives of global capital, suspicion is both a tool for arriving…
In the Shadow of Power
Cet article examine la relation entre l’économie politique et l’éthique du journalisme d’actualités en Ukraine, après la révolution de Maidan et avant l’invasion russe. J’explique pourquoi les journalistes, selon qu’ils travaillaient pour des médias indépendants ou pour les médias officiels, évaluent leur proximité vis-à-vis du pouvoir politique et économique en termes radicalement différents du point de vue de l’éthique. Dans les deux cas, le pr…
Ukraine, One Year On
The following conversation took place as an online round table organized by the Anthropology of Peace, Conflict, and Security research network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists on 14 March 2023. The aim of the round table was to create a space where Ukrainian anthropologists would reflect collectively on the anthropological approach to the invasion of Ukraine one year on. We asked them: What kinds of debates, narratives, imagi…
Failure and moral distinction in a Ukrainian marketplace of ideas
This essay examines the generative effects of claiming moral failure within a Ukrainian liberal movement for media reform in post-Maidan, pre-invasion Ukraine. The reformers wished to reorganize news reporting around the ideals of autonomy, balanced objectivity, impartiality, and corrigibility, which they believed underpinned Western media. They decried most Ukrainian media as failing such standards, highlighting the individual moral failure of j…
War and dependent state formation in Ukraine
This article examines the relationship between war-making and state-making in post-invasion Ukraine drawing on research among Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania and with Ukrainian military crowdfunding organizations. We argue that Ukraine is undergoing a process of dependent state formation. In the context of the war, the Ukrainian state has significantly expanded its military and political power while remaining economically dependent on foreig…
Modalities of Free Speech
While debates over freedom of speech have been a focus of renewed public and media attention over the past decade, anthropological literature focusing self-consciously and explicitly on the topic remained, until very recently, relatively thin on the ground. And yet questions of freedom of expression are treated tangentially in a range of anthropological literatures, including studies of publics, media and mediation, expertise, political subjectiv…
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