🧶 #MemoryMondays | The Door
✍️ Khanum Gevorgyan
She counted down to zero.
At zero, the door would open.
Her father home from Russia—
a taped duffel bag, Russian chocolates, relief.
A childhood shaped by migration, war, and waiting.
🔗 doi.org/10.11647/OBP...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
CAD No. 144 features:
Tamar Shirinian on liberalism as empire (Armenia);
@SamadzadeSevinj on epistemic liminality (Georgia);
and my piece on queer-feminist digital knowledge(s), coloniality, and authoritarianism (Azerbaijan).
#PostSocialism #FeministResearch
Join us each Monday. One chapter, one memory, one question to carry.
#Anarchive #ColdWarMemories #PostSocialism #DecolonizingMemory
New #TransformativePodcast out –
What is #postsocialism and how has it been experienced around Eastern Europe? Ambiguously, according to Jill Massino (UNC Charlotte), the editor, with Marcus Wien, of a new volume on the topic.
🧐 What happens when foreign corporations write your country’s history?
In Poland, multinationals use 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 not just to sell—but to belong.
📄 doi.org/10.1080/0007...
👇 #bizhis #poland #usesofthepast #memory #corporatehistory #memorypolitics #postSocialism
STAGING THE PROMISES by Deana Jovanović uncovers how a Serbian mining town was shaped by theatrically performed visions of prosperity. A gripping look at #hope, despair, and the #power of promises in shaping futures.
#Anthropology #PostSocialism
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
💫My chapter on the "turncoat as a social form" –a figure embodying economic and political betrayal + injustice, inspired by Simmel– in post-1989 East Germany and Czechia is out in Jill Massino and Markus Wien's wonderful #openaccess volume docs.lib.purdue.edu/ces/9/ #postsocialism
And in case you haven't listened to it yet:
🎙️Episode 77: Post-Socialist Infrastructure🎙️
Leah Bovin talked to Tauri Tuvikene and Wladimir Sgibnev about infrastructure and mobility in a post-socialist context. Be excited for trams, garages and trolley buses!
#urbanpolitical #postsocialism
Nice to see colleague Liviu Chelcea mount a fighting withdrawal defence of the term #postsocialism in this recent piece "Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East", Eurasian Geography and Economics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
