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Author Schmukalla, Magda

Title Communist ghosts : post-communist thresholds, critical aesthetics and the undoing of modern Europe / Magda Schmukalla
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Series Studies in the psychosocial
Studies in the psychosocial.
Contents Chapter 1: Prologue -- Trying to speak from a place that never was -- Chapter 2: Introduction: Post-communist Thresholds -- Chapter 3: Artistic Ruptures -- Chapter 4: Unthought Places -- Chapter 5: Uncanny Encounters -- Chapter 6: Missed Awakenings -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- about storks and other migrating people
Summary This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and sudden breakdown of Soviet-type communism. It shows how post-communist thresholds emerge where relics from the communist experience continue disrupting the routines and rhythms of a modern life and confront Europeans with cultural experiences, affects and material realities of the enlightened world which they usually seek to repress or ignore. In exploring and writing through art projects which engage with the psychosocial fabric of such post-communist thresholds, this book finds ways of speaking and thinking through these transitory and paradox sites, and asks what we can say about other or new worlds, about new beginnings and endings as well as about decolonial and ethical ways of relating to the other when assessing the status quo of European modernity from within its liminal and crisis-driven sphere. Magda Schmukalla is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her work advances a decolonial, feminist and artistic study of social life. She has been awarded an ESRC post-doctoral research grant and is co-initiator of the Communist Hauntings project
Notes Includes index
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Subject Post-communism -- Europe -- History
Communism -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Communism -- Social aspects
Politics and government
Post-communism
Postcomunisme.
Estètica.
Civilització moderna.
Modernitat.
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004797
Subject Europe
Europa.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030837303
3030837300