![]() Meanwhile, for those who have been forced to flee for their lives, and are now engaged in tortuous and often hazardous journeys to relative safety, it is vital that they cling on to whatever possessions and images they have managed to salvage from the wreckage. ![]() So many thousands of personal tragedies, each an incremental index of a war crime which demands international justice, but which requires the minute mapping and sifting of evidence on the ground: an archaeology of small things tracing an enormous violation of human rights. This is a war which is both intensely local and global in its geopolitical implications. Under these conditions, the sense of home and belonging becomes a collective experience it embraces not just where you live, your personal space and immediate neighbourhood, but your town or city and the country as a whole, which becomes, in a very material sense, your homeland. Both the armed forces and civilian population of the Ukraine have lived up to this proverb in their response to the brutal invasion by Putin’s war machine. ![]() There is a Ukrainian saying: ‘Every dog is a lion in its own home’. Every Dog is a Lion in its Home Personal geographies of place, identity and belonging within London’s Ukrainian communities A participatory mapping project by Livingmaps Network together with Pushkin House Background ![]()
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