User:Aitantv/Lia Dostlieva (2022) Grain, Ink, and Stones: The Story of Ukrainian Hunger. e-flux

Lia Dostlieva (2022) Grain, Ink, and Stones: The Story of Ukrainian Hunger. e-flux Journal, Issue #128, Food and Agriculture, June 2022. (Download: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/128/)

• "Sometimes, it's difficult to realize how deeply food and food-related practices are entangled with our social interactions. Food is an integral part of human culture and identity. But all those food-based rituals rely on food being easy to acquire in sufficient quantities. A lack of food not only threatens human survival as such but also disrupts cultural rituals. Hunger reduces a person to their body, to exhausted flesh whose existence becomes centered around satisfying very basic needs. This experience is impossible to imagine for those living in relative comfort. But according to UN World Food Programme, 276 million people worldwide were already facing acute hunger at the start of 2022." (Dostilieva 2022)
• "In 1932-33, Soviet Ukraine was swept by a terrifying wave of hunger as the Soviet government starved to death up to four million people, mostly peasants, with an artificial famine. Organized and armed brigades confiscated harvests, which, along with restrictions on villagersÕ movements, led to mass starvation and death. Dead bodies littered the streets and corpses were buried in mass graves. This period was later called "the Holodomor" from the Ukrainian expression "moryty holodom," to starve someone to death." (Dostilieva 2022)

• "Collective traumas - wars, genocides, mass hunger - do not remain confined within the experience of the generation that endures these traumas directly. They transform and are transmitted - through oral stories, habits, and behaviors - to subsequent generations, who absorb them often without even realizing it. Marianne Hirsch calls this indirect traumatic memory 'postmemory.'" (Dostilieva 2022)
• "Traumatic traces of the Holodomor can be found in certain attitudes toward food in Ukraine, especially the strong reluctance to throw away even tiny scraps of food. Despite the fact that twenty-first century Ukrainians, even during the worst of times, have always had something to eat, throwing away food scraps still produces a strong feeling of shame and guilt." (Dostilieva 2022)

+ the guilt or shame response to food waste is reflected namely in my father's bahaviour and that of Aunty Bea, my great aunt who was a child during the Second World War. I must interview her when possible.

• "Since the first days of the invasion, experts have been warning that the war in Ukraine could cause the kind of worldwide food crisis unseen since WWII, due to the disruption of global supply chains, especially grain exports. They estimate that at least forty million people around the world will be pushed into extreme poverty, which will in turn cause a new worldwide wave of forced migration in regions that are remote from the conflict." (Dostilieva 2022)
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