Maria Kurbak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Kurbak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurbak |
| SIGNATURE | KURBAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2580-0373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Nation They “Loved,” The Mission They Chose
Representations of Ukraine and Ukrainians
Destructive Imagination
Donbas Between Memory and Fantasy
The Full-Scale War and the Shaping of Male Fantasy Narratives
Russian future thinking during its war in Ukraine
This article examines Russian national future thinking during the war in Ukraine. It views future thinking as a form of mediated action that is dependent on narrative tools and explores the structure and function of various types of narratives that play a role, including schematic narrative templates and national narrative projects. The first section of the article goes into conceptual issues on plot, the sense of an ending and other features of …
The great replacement of narrative
This article examines the rise of conspiratorial thinking in wartime Russia as a response to a deeper collective anxiety – not merely the replacement of people, but the erasure of narrative agency. While the Russian version of the ‘Great Replacement’ echoes familiar Western themes such as elite betrayal, cultural erosion, and demographic decline, its central concern shifts towards symbolic displacement. Drawing on Mark Sedgwick’s interpretation o…
Men must fight, women must wait’
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is primarily examined through official narratives, propaganda, and victims’ testimonies. However, the deeper motivations driving Russian men to enlist and fight often remain underexplored. While Western and Ukrainian media frequently attribute this to Russian propaganda, animosity towards Ukrainians, naivety, or financial incentives, these factors only partially capture the issue’s complexity. An additional motive r…
Imagining the future – rejecting the present
For many Russians, the Russia–Ukraine war became a starting point for rethinking their identity. And thinking about their personal and national future played a significant role in this process. This article is based on the analysis of the interviews I collected during the first year of the war. It examines how imagining the future activates a variety of defense mechanisms, which can be situated in four unique, yet not mutually exclusive, defensiv…
“Silenced Generation”
The article is devoted to the problem of emigration of writers from South Africa in the 1950s–1960s. Using the example of the fates of three South African writers – Peter Abrahams, Nat Nakasa and Arthur Nortier – the author raises the following questions: what were the reasons that forced the creative intelligentsia to leave their country? What was the state policy towards emigrants in the 1950s and 1960s? Why did emigration become an opportunity…
Living the last chapter of History’
In this article, I examine efforts to rewrite school history in Putin's Russia, efforts whose precedents in Russia can be traced back to the nineteenth century. I explore this process from the perspective of recent scholarship on ‘collective future thinking’ and demonstrate how a particular feeling – anxiety – shaped Russian and Soviet efforts to change history textbooks. I describe those created in Russia, focusing on their future component and …
Shore, M. (2016) Religion and Conflict Resolution
Madness of the Society and Madness of the Writer
This article focuses on the biography and works of South-African poet, writer and artist Wopko Jensma. He was often referred to as “the first South-African”, implying that he, like no other, was able to merge his own culture — that of Afrikaaners — with mythology, music and languages of black and coloured population of the SAR. His works had been exhibited in the USA and Europe and had been forbidden in his homeland as the consequence of his crit…
“A Fatal Compromise”
After the victory of the National Party (NP) in the 1948 elections and the establishment of the apartheid regime in South Africa, politics and culture were subordinated to one main goal – the preservation and protection of Afrikaners as an ethnic minority. Since 1954, the government headed by Prime Minister D. F. Malan had begun implementing measures restricting freedom of speech and creating “literary police”. In 1956 the Commission of Inquiry i…
Ingrid Jonker and Apartheid in South Africa
The article is devoted to the life and work of the South African poetess Ingrid Jonker. Jonker’s biography is viewed against the backdrop of historical events related to the establishment of the apartheid system in South Africa, increased censorship, the atmosphere of repression and despair, and increasingly tense relations between writers and authorities. Ingrid Jonker was part of a group of so-called “Sixties” (Sestigers), innovator writers who…
Problems of Modern South Africa in the Works of Afrikaners Writer
Soviet Journeys of the South African writers
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Soviet Journeys of the South African writers
Problems of Modern South Africa in the Works of Afrikaners Writer
Ingrid Jonker and Apartheid in South Africa
The article is devoted to the life and work of the South African poetess Ingrid Jonker. Jonker’s biography is viewed against the backdrop of historical events related to the establishment of the apartheid system in South Africa, increased censorship, the atmosphere of repression and despair, and increasingly tense relations between writers and authorities. Ingrid Jonker was part of a group of so-called “Sixties” (Sestigers), innovator writers who…
“A Fatal Compromise”
After the victory of the National Party (NP) in the 1948 elections and the establishment of the apartheid regime in South Africa, politics and culture were subordinated to one main goal – the preservation and protection of Afrikaners as an ethnic minority. Since 1954, the government headed by Prime Minister D. F. Malan had begun implementing measures restricting freedom of speech and creating “literary police”. In 1956 the Commission of Inquiry i…
Shore, M. (2016) Religion and Conflict Resolution
Madness of the Society and Madness of the Writer
This article focuses on the biography and works of South-African poet, writer and artist Wopko Jensma. He was often referred to as “the first South-African”, implying that he, like no other, was able to merge his own culture — that of Afrikaaners — with mythology, music and languages of black and coloured population of the SAR. His works had been exhibited in the USA and Europe and had been forbidden in his homeland as the consequence of his crit…
“Silenced Generation”
The article is devoted to the problem of emigration of writers from South Africa in the 1950s–1960s. Using the example of the fates of three South African writers – Peter Abrahams, Nat Nakasa and Arthur Nortier – the author raises the following questions: what were the reasons that forced the creative intelligentsia to leave their country? What was the state policy towards emigrants in the 1950s and 1960s? Why did emigration become an opportunity…
Living the last chapter of History’
In this article, I examine efforts to rewrite school history in Putin's Russia, efforts whose precedents in Russia can be traced back to the nineteenth century. I explore this process from the perspective of recent scholarship on ‘collective future thinking’ and demonstrate how a particular feeling – anxiety – shaped Russian and Soviet efforts to change history textbooks. I describe those created in Russia, focusing on their future component and …
Imagining the future – rejecting the present
For many Russians, the Russia–Ukraine war became a starting point for rethinking their identity. And thinking about their personal and national future played a significant role in this process. This article is based on the analysis of the interviews I collected during the first year of the war. It examines how imagining the future activates a variety of defense mechanisms, which can be situated in four unique, yet not mutually exclusive, defensiv…
Men must fight, women must wait’
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is primarily examined through official narratives, propaganda, and victims’ testimonies. However, the deeper motivations driving Russian men to enlist and fight often remain underexplored. While Western and Ukrainian media frequently attribute this to Russian propaganda, animosity towards Ukrainians, naivety, or financial incentives, these factors only partially capture the issue’s complexity. An additional motive r…
The Nation They “Loved,” The Mission They Chose
Representations of Ukraine and Ukrainians
Destructive Imagination
Donbas Between Memory and Fantasy
The Full-Scale War and the Shaping of Male Fantasy Narratives
Russian future thinking during its war in Ukraine
This article examines Russian national future thinking during the war in Ukraine. It views future thinking as a form of mediated action that is dependent on narrative tools and explores the structure and function of various types of narratives that play a role, including schematic narrative templates and national narrative projects. The first section of the article goes into conceptual issues on plot, the sense of an ending and other features of …
The great replacement of narrative
This article examines the rise of conspiratorial thinking in wartime Russia as a response to a deeper collective anxiety – not merely the replacement of people, but the erasure of narrative agency. While the Russian version of the ‘Great Replacement’ echoes familiar Western themes such as elite betrayal, cultural erosion, and demographic decline, its central concern shifts towards symbolic displacement. Drawing on Mark Sedgwick’s interpretation o…
Political science (8 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Soviet and Russian History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)