title: The quest for the ukrainian “Araucana”. The case for the humanization of the Orc
abstract: The decade-long armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine (2014-2024) has been characterized legally and politically in different ways, such as a war of self-defense against external aggression to uphold the rules-based international order, or a war of national liberation against occupation and full-scale invasion by an imperialist power. On a social level, the rhetoric or language used by the immediately affected parties reveals the need to construct the conflict also as an existential fight be
journal: REVISTA ELECTRONICA IBEROAMERICANA