‘Nothingness’, migrants and de-bordering: effects of post-Soviet conflicts on a small Armenian town

Authors: Maria Gunko

Types: Ethnography, History, Observations

Location: Armenia

Themes: Affect, Infrastructure, Materiality, Migration, Nothingness, Postsocialism, War

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Extended extractivism: the production of an operational landscape in Eastern Germany

Authors: Friederike Pank

Types: Concepts, Ethnography, Observations

Location: Germany

Themes: Extractivism, Infrastructure, Postsocialism, Space, The Rural

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Emptiness: the view from Spain

Authors: Jeremy MacClancy

Types: Concepts, Ethnography

Location: Spain

Themes: Politics, The Rural

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Order from chaos

Authors: Dace Dzenovska

Types: Ethnography, History

Location: Latvia

Themes: Capitalism, Freedom, The Future

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Good roads, bad fences

Authors: Volodymyr Artiukh

Types: Concepts, Ethnography, Observations

Location: Latvia, Ukraine

Themes: Abandoned houses, Materiality, The Countryside

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On disintegration in a Russian company town

Authors: Maria Gunko

Types: Ethnography, Observations

Location: Russia

Themes: Capitalism, Infrastructure, Order, Space

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Non-property

Authors: Dace Dzenovska

Types: Concepts, Ethnography

Location: Latvia

Themes: Materiality, The Countryside

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“War on the horizon”: fieldnotes on infrastructural vulnerability in frontline communities of the Donbas

Authors: Anastasiya Ryabchuk

Types: Ethnography, Guest Contributions

Location: Ukraine

Themes: Infrastructure, War

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Ecologies of emptiness

Authors: Jonathon Turnbull, Adam Searle, Sandra Jasper

Types: Concepts, Ethnography, Guest Contributions

Location: Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Themes: Ecology

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Emptiness, ghost towns and social afterlives

Authors: Martin Demant Frederiksen

Types: Ethnography, Guest Contributions

Location: Georgia

Themes: Capitalism, Connectivity, Deindustrialization

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In the wilderness: tuksnesī/ в пустыне

Authors: Dominic Martin

Types: Concepts, Ethnography

Location: Russia

Themes: Language, Religion

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