We are not ghosts

Authors: Nikolaos Olma

Types: Guest Contributions

Location: Kyrgyzstan

Themes: Deindustrialization, Extractivism, Postsocialism, Tourism

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‘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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Field visit to Romania: buildings in waiting

Authors: Dace Dzenovska

Types: Observations

Location: Romania

Themes: Infrastructure, Postsocialism, The City, The Future

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Tskaltubo: life as a perpetual state of waiting

Authors: Stefan Applis

Types: Guest Contributions

Location: Georgia

Themes: Infrastructure, Migration, Postsocialism, Poverty, War

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‘Unboxing’ capitalist incorporation: reflections from Eastern Germany

Authors: Friederike Pank

Types: Observations

Location: Germany

Themes: Capitalism, Postsocialism

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Soviet debris: failure and the leftovers of construction

Authors: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Dominic Martin

Types: Guest Contributions

Location: Russia

Themes: Materiality, Postsocialism, The Rural

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Emptiness in visual representations of socialist built heritage

Authors: Guido Sechi

Types: Guest Contributions, Visual Essays

Location: Russia

Themes: Deindustrialization, Postsocialism, Representation, Sociality

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