Journal article
Between loss and opportunity : The fate of place after postsocialism
- Abstract:
- Many places in the post-socialist world undergo emptying: a loss of their constitutive elements—people, infrastructure, services, and futures past. Some people see this emptying as a loss, others as an opportunity. We argue that the shift from loss to opportunity—or vice versa—is a site of the political, that is, a moment of decision about the place of the present in a framework of meaning that gives form and direction to life. Drawing on contributions to the theme section, as well as on literature on hegemony, the political, and Anthropocene, we identify a potential tension between re-politicization on the scale of geopolitics and de- politicization on the scale of the planetary.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.3167/fcl.2023.960101
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- Publisher:
- Berghahn Journals
- Journal:
- Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2023
- Issue:
- 96
- Pages:
- 1-15
- Publication date:
- 2023-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-01-25
- DOI:
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1558-5263
- ISSN:
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0920-1297
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1329351
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pubs:1329351
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2023-02-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Dzenovska et al
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © The Authors 2023. This article is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license as part of Berghahn Open Anthro, a subscribe-to-open model for APC-free open access made possible by the journal’s subscribers.
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