Conclusion

This book was born out of a necessity to deal with trauma—a personal trauma of estrangement from the homeland because of the unjust war ravaging it; a collective trauma of witnessing previously unimaginable atrocities and the deaths of those near and far alike; and a historical trauma of colonial belonging and invisibility, of the denial of agency, of lack of presence and subjectivity. This book will not resolve these traumas, nor will it ease the pain of loss and destruction. However, I hope that as an action of resistance, as an attempt to reclaim the long-sought agency of the Ukrainian subject, lost for centuries in the ambicolonial entanglement and consumed by colonial desire, it will restore justice in at least one important field: the theory that has overlooked Ukraine for far too long.