The author is grateful to Orysia Lutsevych for steering the research process, to Ľubica Polláková for managing the publication process, and to Robert Brinkley, Ursula Woolley, Solomia Borshosh and two anonymous reviewers for providing their comments. The paper became possible thanks to the generous support of the British Council, and the author is thankful to Simon Williams, the former director of its Kyiv office, for persevering with this project. Special thanks go to the trustees of the Ukrainian Institute London who agreed to take this project on board during the author’s directorship of the institute. The Ukrainian-language version of this paper was made possible thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation – thanks are due in particular to Yulia Fediv and Olexandra Yakubenko, who also helped to promote the paper’s findings inside Ukraine.
I am most grateful for the insight and time of those who answered my research interview questions: government officials, managers of state cultural institutions and independent cultural platforms, cultural activists, curators and artists. Among them are Kateryna Botanova, Anna Bubnova, Christian Diemer, Dennis Ivanov, Tetyana Filevska, Galyna Grygorenko, Yevhen Hlibovytsky, Pavlo Hudimov, Anna Karnaukh, Beata Kohler, Ivan Kozlenko, Luba Michailova, Jerzy Onuch, Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Iaroslav Petrakov, Iryna Podolyak, Olexandra Saienko, Alexander Scherba, Volodymyr Sheiko, Tetyana Shulha, Julia Sinkevych, Tetyana Teren, Volodymyr Vorobey and many others.
