Description
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has bifurcated the ‘post-Covid’ world between the global north/west, which outrightly supported Ukrainian efforts against the Russian invasion and those who were more cautious about the sanctions regime and the tough stance, mainly countries located in the global south and east. In the discussions in the global north/west, there has been a renewed focus on hard security and state-based European/Western security order, the academic debate in the global south and east is different. In line with postcolonial and decolonial approaches, the argument is that responses to the Russian invasion reveal yet again the racial cartographies that dominate geopolitical thinking today: one where Euro-American spaces (“the garden”) and those designated for their protection as white or nominally white, are continuously produced as sacred and safe at the expense of proxy wars in the global south and east (“the jungle”).
In this paper, we examine the epistemic frames and the racialized discourses used in the global north/west to describe the Ukraine crisis and the hierarchies that are perpetuated through them. Specifically, we explore the politics of knowledge production on Ukraine crisis regarding who sets the agenda, whose voices are prioritized and who is excluded/marginalized.
