Communist Hauntings

Aesthetics of Disrupted Times
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-43923-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Studies in the Psychosocial

This transdisciplinary psychosocial collection brings artists, critical theorists, and social scientists into dialogue to examine how ruptures in European life, including COVID-19, the climate crisis, and the war in Ukraine, revive desires and fears linked to communism. It traces how bodies, places, and events remain troubled by Soviet-type histories and post-communist transitions, and how “communist ghosts” resurface when capitalist structures falter. Rather than repressing these returns, contributors listen to them, mobilising artistic practice with theory and empirical research to critique late capitalism and imagine post-capitalist pasts and futures. Building on the spectral turn and demonstrating the decolonial potential of aesthetic research, the book offers fresh insights for psychosocial and decolonial studies, visual culture, East European studies, politics, sociology, cultural studies, and critical theory, as well as for artists and activists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmukalla, Magda

Ozolina, Liene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Rhizopolis. A City of Roots.- Chapter 3. The Cave of the Displaced Child.- Chapter 4. ‘Unearthing the Forgotten’: Resignification, Imprint and Obsidional History.- Chapter 5. Art Out of Place.- Chapter 6. All that persists behind the colorful facades.- Chapter 7. Digging Shadows. The Ecological Memory of Soviet Modernity.- Chapter 8. Workers’ Strike in the Artistic Representation of Igor Grubic.- Chapter 9. Ghosted Revolutions.- Chapter 10. Taking Concepts Home.- Chapter 11. Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Magda Schmukalla is Lecturer in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. Dr Schmukalla’s work explores rupture, displacement, and transition through contemporary art. She is the author of (2021).

Liene Ozolina is Professor of Sociology, Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia. Dr Ozolina researches cultural and political sociology, post-socialist neoliberalism, and socially engaged art. She is the author of (2019).