Zhou, Zihan2025-06-272025-06-272024Zhou, Zihan. «Beyond Semiotic Representation: A Study of Emotion in Ukrainian Children’s Paintings». Social Inclusion 12 (19 de noviembre de 2024): 8897. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.8897.2183-280310.17645/si.8897https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121933This article is part of the issue “Perceptions, Reflections, and Conceptualisations of War and Peace in Children’s Drawings” edited by Lisa Blasch (University of Innsbruck), Phil C. Langer (International Psychoanalytic University Berlin), and Nadja Thoma (University of Innsbruck), fully open access at https://doi.org/10.17645/si.i407As part of the Ukrainian children support project, the platform Mom, I See Warpresents, on its official website and social media, more than 4,000 drawings by children from war‐affected areas (mainly Ukraine). Based on the artworks on this platform, this article delves deeper than mere symbolic interpretations and explores the various categories of emotional expression in these children’s drawings. Through a close reading of different elements (symbols, colours, structures) within the drawings, the study is carried out within the theoretical framework of emotion and political and cultural study. While each painting contains a complex combination ofvariouspersonalemotions,thearticlemakesageneraloutlineofallthepaintingsasawholeandanalysesthe various possibilities of emotional expression among the group. In response to war conditions, four categories of emotional expression are presented: fear, pain, anger, and hope.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/journal articlehttps://doi.org/10.17645/si.8897https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/8897/open accessAngerChild psychologyEmotionFearHopePainWar paintingFilología5505.10 Filología