Authors: Dace Dzenovska, Taras Fedirko
Themes: Geopolitics, The Future
A sense of embattlement has emerged as an increasingly common mode of experiencing the European present and thinking about its future. Is this a reinvigoration of politics or a dangerous amplification of political differences?
Authors: Dace Dzenovska, Daniel M. Knight
Location: Bosnia, China, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Latvia, United Kingdom
Themes: Capitalism, Infrastructure, Materiality, The City, The Future
This series argues that emptiness is emerging as a concrete spatial-temporal coordinate in the global landscape of capitalism and state power, and a heuristic device of political struggles.
Authors: Dace Dzenovska
Location: Eastern Europe, Latvia
Themes: Capitalism, Postsocialism, The Future
As a social formation, emptiness consists of: (1) an observable reality wherein places rapidly lose their constitutive elements (people, infrastructure, services, social networks, and the future); (2) a way of life that emerges in response to such changes, which seem irreversible; and (3) an emic interpretive framework for making sense of the new reality.
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