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Between loss and opportunity: The fate of place after postsocialism.
- Source :
- Focaal; 2023, Issue 96, p1-15, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FUTURES
HEGEMONY
GEOPOLITICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09201297
- Issue :
- 96
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Focaal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164226279
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2023.960101