title: Making sense of (the Russian war in) Ukraine: On the politics of knowledge and expertise
abstract: The 2022 Russian invasion has led to unprecedented public and political attention to all things Ukrainian.In this intervention, we contend that critical geographic scholarship about Eastern Europe remains wanting and that the recent attention to Ukraine may reproduce and perhaps even exacerbate entrenched perspectives.If we are to overcome the lopsided politics of knowledge and expertise about Ukraine and the wider region, underlying biases should be taken seriously in the current debates about 
journal: Political Geography