Land, Property, Ownership at the Imperial Crossroads I

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This session calls for engagements that trace the entanglements of various imperial governance regimes through the lens of land and property across and beyond Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Much of the scholarship on land adheres to a liberal Eurocentric understanding of property as a carefully demarcated parcel of land with an attached bundle of rights bestowed to a single possessor. In this session, we transcend the familiar theorization of property and land by bringing into a dialogue (post)colonial, (post)imperial, (neo)imperial and inter-imperial interactions and contexts, recognizing that Eastern Europe and Eurasia is both a progenitor of imperial and colonial relations, as well as a subject of imperial power from inside and outside the region. To this end, these sessions investigate both contemporary and historical tensions produced when alternative practices of land ownership are confronted by multiple and often overlapping hegemonic forms of property-making.

Sub Unit

• Geography, Environmental Studies

Chair

• Jonathan Dewes McCombs, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Papers

• Zhytlo: Creativity in the New Ukrainian Affordable Housing Market - Sofia Pinedo-Padoch, Inst for Social Anthropology (Germany)

• Sun, Sea, and Settler Colonialism: Preferential Mortgages and Permanent Filtration in Russian-Occupied Ukraine - Michał Murawski, U College London (UK)

• Soviet Shadows over Ukrainian Land: The Enduring Influence of the USSR’s Land Codes in Ukraine - Sierra Nota, Naval Postgraduate School

• The 'Land Question' in the Russian Geopolitics of Territorial Occupation - Max Samuel Wellbrock-Talley, Kansas State U

Discussant

• Amanda Zadorian, Oberlin College