Wartime circularity: adapting buildings, salvaging materials, and designing supply chains for Ukraine
BP2-STS
- Przywara, Adam ORCID University of Fribourg
- 2025
Published in:
- Urban Research & Practice. - Informa UK Limited. - 2025, p. 1-18
English
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered waves of solidarity actions across Europe. In Polish cities, this ethical imperative found a distinct material expression in practices associated with the circular economy. This paper conceptualises ‘wartime circularity’ as an analytical category for understanding these socio-material practices of adaptation, salvaging, and ad hoc supply chains established in response to armed conflict. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with the OKNO initiative (‘window’ in Polish), which delivers salvaged windows from Poland to partner organisations in Ukraine, the paper foregrounds CE in construction as a situated practice rather than a universal policy ideal.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département des sciences sociales
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Anthropology, ethnography
- License
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CC BY
- Open access status
- hybrid
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1080/17535069.2025.2571101
- ISSN 1753-5069
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334100
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