Space and Place in the Cultural Representations of/in the Global East

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The explosive transformations of the Global East (Chen, 2010; Müller, 2020; Tlostanova, 2018; Wang, 2014) prompted the outburst of various cultural representations, from toppling the monuments to the works with an explicit anti-centralist stance. Drawing on de Certeau’s spatial theory, this panel will look at the dynamic between “place” and “space”. While the former defines unique locations, the latter mobilizes and antagonizes. With the focus on the former Eastern Bloc or Second World at large that for the last thirty years variously tried to strengthen its global relevance, the papers in this panel will reflect on several cases of expanding postsocialist imaginaries through artistic efforts.

Sub Unit

• Urban Studies, Built Environments

Chair

• Andriej Moskwin, U of Warsaw (Poland)

Papers

• Identity in Monuments to the Pugachev Rebellion - Megan L. Dixon, College of Idaho

• Memorial Landscapes of the Fall of the Soviet Union - Parvin Ahanchi, Baku Higher Oil School (Azerbaijan); Rasa Cepaitiene, Lithuanian Inst of History (Lithuania)

• Erbossyn Meldibekov: Spaces of Central Asia and Mobile Monuments - Elena Trubina, UNC at Chapel Hill

Discussant

• Edward Christian Holland, U of Arkansas