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A personal and powerful testimony on the destruction that still goes on.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the author\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/slavic.uchicago.edu\/profiles\/darya-tsymbalyuk\u0022\u003EDarya Tsymbalyuk\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E is an interdisciplinary scholar whose practice includes writing and image-making. Most of Tsymbalyuk\u2019s work lies at the intersection of environmental humanities and artistic research, but she has also written on embodied knowledge, coloniality of knowledge and colonial legacies, whiteness, (post)industrial heritage and visual arts. 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