‘Living Emptiness: Place, Power and Meaning-Making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East’ multimodal book

This multimodal book by the EMPTINESS project team argues that the current historical moment is best understood from the perspective of places that are losing people, services, infrastructure, and value. That is, it is best understood from the perspective of places that are, in the words of some of our interlocutors, emptying. The book argues that emptying places, or places that are being so radically reconstituted that they lose recognizable form on most accounts, are proliferating spatial coordinates. Such places are, on the one hand, losing their liveability and, on the other, becoming a refuge for a motley crew of outcasts clinging to the wreckage. In some cases, glimpses of new worlds emerge.

For more information on this forthcoming book, keep watch at https://www.sup.org/digital.