Dr Bohdana Kurylo
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
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Out now! A new special issue from @secdialogue.bsky.social with an excellent line-up of contributors to mark 20 years of vernacular security research! Guest edited by @leejarvis.bsky.social @michaellister.bsky.social & Akinyemi Oyawale journals.sagepub.com/toc/SDI/curr...
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Out now! A new special issue from @secdialogue.bsky.social with an excellent line-up of contributors to mark 20 years of vernacular security research! Guest edited by @leejarvis.bsky.social @michaellister.bsky.social & Akinyemi Oyawale journals.sagepub.com/toc/SDI/curr...
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A real pleasure to work with @leejarvis.bsky.social @akinoyawale.bsky.social, the @secdialogue.bsky.social editorial team and all the excellent contributors to this volume: Joseph Downing, Nicole George, Sarai B. Aharoni, Amalia Sa’ar, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social, Nick Vaughan-Williams & Hannah Owens
Out now! A new special issue from @secdialogue.bsky.social with an excellent line-up of contributors to mark 20 years of vernacular security research! Guest edited by @leejarvis.bsky.social @michaellister.bsky.social & Akinyemi Oyawale journals.sagepub.com/toc/SDI/curr...
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A real pleasure to work with @leejarvis.bsky.social @akinoyawale.bsky.social, the @secdialogue.bsky.social editorial team and all the excellent contributors to this volume: Joseph Downing, Nicole George, Sarai B. Aharoni, Amalia Sa’ar, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social, Nick Vaughan-Williams & Hannah Owens
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🌎 Russia’s war has pushed Ukrainians to rethink security not only as the state’s responsibility, but as something citizens do together.
Yet, is Ukrainian civil society fighting for more than territory?
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Yet, is Ukrainian civil society fighting for more than territory?
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Ukrainian civil society has redefined security in wartime
Ukrainian civil society has been key to the defence against Russia, offering a powerful example of how wartime democratic resilience can emerge from below.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🌎 Russia’s war has pushed Ukrainians to rethink security not only as the state’s responsibility, but as something citizens do together.
Yet, is Ukrainian civil society fighting for more than territory?
✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social for @lseblogs.bsky.social EUROPP
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Yet, is Ukrainian civil society fighting for more than territory?
✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social for @lseblogs.bsky.social EUROPP
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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‘For Ukrainian civil society, security requires all three dimensions – military capacity to resist, freedom from authoritarian control and preservation of cultural identity – because each addresses a different facet of colonial domination’
Russia's war in Ukraine has prompted groups of self-organised Ukrainian citizens to work together to defend their country.
These groups offer a powerful example of how democratic resilience can emerge from below during wartime.
✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
These groups offer a powerful example of how democratic resilience can emerge from below during wartime.
✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Ukrainian civil society has redefined security in wartime
Ukrainian civil society has been key to the defence against Russia, offering a powerful example of how wartime democratic resilience can emerge from below.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
‘For Ukrainian civil society, security requires all three dimensions – military capacity to resist, freedom from authoritarian control and preservation of cultural identity – because each addresses a different facet of colonial domination’
Check out my latest for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
Russia's war in Ukraine has prompted groups of self-organised Ukrainian citizens to work together to defend their country.
These groups offer a powerful example of how democratic resilience can emerge from below during wartime.
✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
These groups offer a powerful example of how democratic resilience can emerge from below during wartime.
✍️ @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Ukrainian civil society has redefined security in wartime
Ukrainian civil society has been key to the defence against Russia, offering a powerful example of how wartime democratic resilience can emerge from below.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Check out my latest for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
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We would like to highlight the RTs: first, we will discuss the "Spaces, Relations and Struggles of Ukrainians in International Theory" with Bohdana Kurylo, Cornelia Baciu, Olena Snigyr, Mateusz Filary Szczepanik, Victoria Vdovychenko, Jochen Kleinshmidt, and me. Wednesday, 27 August at 11.00-12.30.
August 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We would like to highlight the RTs: first, we will discuss the "Spaces, Relations and Struggles of Ukrainians in International Theory" with Bohdana Kurylo, Cornelia Baciu, Olena Snigyr, Mateusz Filary Szczepanik, Victoria Vdovychenko, Jochen Kleinshmidt, and me. Wednesday, 27 August at 11.00-12.30.
Very touched to receive an Excellence in Education Award at LSE. Huge thanks to @patricksturg.bsky.social & @lsemethodology.bsky.social for the nomination and support.
Celebrating with Evita on stage 💛
Celebrating with Evita on stage 💛
July 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Very touched to receive an Excellence in Education Award at LSE. Huge thanks to @patricksturg.bsky.social & @lsemethodology.bsky.social for the nomination and support.
Celebrating with Evita on stage 💛
Celebrating with Evita on stage 💛
What strikes me at International Studies conferences this year is how little is said about Ukraine. In a trend-driven academia, Ukraine has been relegated to an ‘anti-trend’ - too enduring, too inconvenient and displaced by flashier tragedies that check more theoretical boxes.
July 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
What strikes me at International Studies conferences this year is how little is said about Ukraine. In a trend-driven academia, Ukraine has been relegated to an ‘anti-trend’ - too enduring, too inconvenient and displaced by flashier tragedies that check more theoretical boxes.
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Russia murdered 3 more civilians in Sumy region, incl. a child. Six more suffered injuries
Emergency services showed their battle after the attack on the Verkhnyosyrovatsk community, describing it as a "cynical attack caused large-scale destruction in the residential sector."
Emergency services showed their battle after the attack on the Verkhnyosyrovatsk community, describing it as a "cynical attack caused large-scale destruction in the residential sector."
June 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Russia murdered 3 more civilians in Sumy region, incl. a child. Six more suffered injuries
Emergency services showed their battle after the attack on the Verkhnyosyrovatsk community, describing it as a "cynical attack caused large-scale destruction in the residential sector."
Emergency services showed their battle after the attack on the Verkhnyosyrovatsk community, describing it as a "cynical attack caused large-scale destruction in the residential sector."
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🤬 Moment of ballistic missile strike near the Odesa-Dnipro train: there are injured passengers, — local media.
June 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🤬 Moment of ballistic missile strike near the Odesa-Dnipro train: there are injured passengers, — local media.
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Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
June 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)
What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
Happy to share my chapter on Zelenskyy's populist aesthetics of security in the Routledge Handbook of #Populism and #ForeignPolicy. Many thanks to editors @davidcadier.bsky.social, @achryssogelos.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social
@lsemethodology.bsky.social
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June 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy to share my chapter on Zelenskyy's populist aesthetics of security in the Routledge Handbook of #Populism and #ForeignPolicy. Many thanks to editors @davidcadier.bsky.social, @achryssogelos.bsky.social & @sdestradi.bsky.social
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📚 New 👉 "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime"
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📚 New 👉 "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and Ukrainian civil society in wartime"
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social draws on a four-year study (2018–22) of civic engagement in wartime Ukraine, examining through a vernacular security lens
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Not every academic or journalist who's written something about Russia/Ukraine automatically becomes an expert on the region. It matters WHAT exactly they've written. Give voice to those for whom the war isn't just another keyword in their CV.
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Not every academic or journalist who's written something about Russia/Ukraine automatically becomes an expert on the region. It matters WHAT exactly they've written. Give voice to those for whom the war isn't just another keyword in their CV.
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🇷🇺: We don't oppose 🇺🇦 Ukraine joining 🇪🇺 EU but we oppose democracy in Ukraine (which kinda prevents joining EU)
Cannot keep the stories straight Russki?
🤦♂️
Cannot keep the stories straight Russki?
🤦♂️
Lavrov ups Russia's demands on Ukraine to include a ban on democratic elections.
Do we get it yet?
Do we get it yet?
NEW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded that any future peace agreement in Ukraine include conditions to prevent the election and establishment of future pro-Western governments in Ukraine.
Read more in the May 23, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar052325
Read more in the May 23, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar052325
May 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🇷🇺: We don't oppose 🇺🇦 Ukraine joining 🇪🇺 EU but we oppose democracy in Ukraine (which kinda prevents joining EU)
Cannot keep the stories straight Russki?
🤦♂️
Cannot keep the stories straight Russki?
🤦♂️
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"...civil society groups’ discourse evolved to encompass emancipatory and societal security dimensions, emphasizing both freedom from authoritarian control and the preservation of Ukrainian national identity"
Just out in @secdialogue.bsky.social
My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity
doi.org/10.1177/0967...
My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity
doi.org/10.1177/0967...
May 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"...civil society groups’ discourse evolved to encompass emancipatory and societal security dimensions, emphasizing both freedom from authoritarian control and the preservation of Ukrainian national identity"
Though I've been Dr. Kurylo on paper for months now, my yesterday's graduation was truly magical in every way ✨️ #UCLGrad @uclssees.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Though I've been Dr. Kurylo on paper for months now, my yesterday's graduation was truly magical in every way ✨️ #UCLGrad @uclssees.bsky.social
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I'm so pleased to see this out - many congratulations indeed! It's a fantastic article, that deserves to be very widely read. I feel very proud to have it in the special issue.
May 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I'm so pleased to see this out - many congratulations indeed! It's a fantastic article, that deserves to be very widely read. I feel very proud to have it in the special issue.
Just out in @secdialogue.bsky.social
My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity
doi.org/10.1177/0967...
My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity
doi.org/10.1177/0967...
May 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Just out in @secdialogue.bsky.social
My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity
doi.org/10.1177/0967...
My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity
doi.org/10.1177/0967...
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My new article is out in @journalpolitics.bsky.social. “Security professionals and public opinion: legitimacy, publicity and brand identity”. It looks at the ways in which non elected security professionals, think about public opinion. Open access (1/2)
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March 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My new article is out in @journalpolitics.bsky.social. “Security professionals and public opinion: legitimacy, publicity and brand identity”. It looks at the ways in which non elected security professionals, think about public opinion. Open access (1/2)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New in Advance Articles:
Reframing Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
by Marnie Howlett (@marniehowlett.bsky.social) and Bohdana Kurylo (@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Reframing Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
by Marnie Howlett (@marniehowlett.bsky.social) and Bohdana Kurylo (@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Reframing ReflexivityCollaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
This article critically examines the role of reflexivity in the study of wars, conflicts, and authoritarianism, drawing on insights gained from researching Russia’s war against Ukraine. While reflecti...
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New in Advance Articles:
Reframing Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
by Marnie Howlett (@marniehowlett.bsky.social) and Bohdana Kurylo (@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
Reframing Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
by Marnie Howlett (@marniehowlett.bsky.social) and Bohdana Kurylo (@bohdanakurylo.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...
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I will remember Pope Francis for his whitewashing of russia’s war on Ukraine
April 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I will remember Pope Francis for his whitewashing of russia’s war on Ukraine
Happy Easter from Czechia! Loving every second of this wondrous place 🐣
April 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Happy Easter from Czechia! Loving every second of this wondrous place 🐣
In our brand new paper, @marniehowlett.bsky.social and I rethink the practice of reflexivity when researching conflicts and violence. Free access for the next 30 days: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
April 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In our brand new paper, @marniehowlett.bsky.social and I rethink the practice of reflexivity when researching conflicts and violence. Free access for the next 30 days: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Thrilled to see my new article with @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social out in @cpcs.bsky.social!
Reframing ReflexivityCollaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
This article critically examines the role of reflexivity in the study of wars, conflicts, and authoritarianism, drawing on insights gained from researching Russia’s war against Ukraine. While reflecti...
online.ucpress.edu
April 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thrilled to see my new article with @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social out in @cpcs.bsky.social!