Léon’s feet: a story of remembering

ABSTRACT

This submission is a piece of creative nonfiction that is partly memoir and partly a story about war memories in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank Charles Warner III, Terry Savage, and the anonymous referee for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay.

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Peter Vermeersch

Peter Vermeersch is a professor of social sciences and international politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium), where he is connected to the research group LINES (Leuven International and European Studies). His academic interests are ethnic and gender politics in post-communist Europe, nationalism, social movements, and restorative justice. He also publishes essays and literary non-fiction. http://www.petervermeersch.net