Ioulia Shukan

Ioulia Shukan is currently working on a project that explores, in sociology and in real time, but also in dialogue with the history of the 20th-century wars and mutilations, the reinvention, through the Russian-Ukrainian war, of civic solidarities in the face of traumatic limb amputations and, beyond that, the reconfiguration of care for people with disabilities in Ukraine. During her fellowship at INDEX, she will collect testimonies of individual experiences and struggles of Ukrainians who have gone through a limb amputation and document profound structural reconfigurations underway in Ukraine in the fields of medical care, prosthetics, rehabilitation, and inclusion.

Ioulia Shukan is a sociologist and professor at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. She has recently completed a book project, drawing on her long-term ethnographical research in 2014-2022 on Ukrainian women’s involvement in voluntary caregiving for wounded soldiers (forthcoming, 2025).