Is Post-Soviet Decolonial? 3102-FIPSD
The postcolonial studies and decolonial theories are products of the self-reflexivity of the anglophone world and reactions of thinkers representing societies mostly colonized by the British Empire on their post-empire condition. During the seminars we will discuss to what extend these concepts are applicable to Russia/Soviet context and their ex-colonies. We will read some classical theoretical texts in postcolonial studies and then see how these concepts may be applied to post-Soviet societies mostly of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We will also refer to growing literature showing particularities of the Russian/Soviet colonialism and post-colonial processes. During the seminars we will refer to empirical materials such as literature, movies and ethnographic researches to discuss particularities of the processes of Russian/Soviet colonisation and decolonisation processes. Among the problems that we will discuss are:
- What where the particularities of the Russian/Soviet colonisation, modernisation and imperialism
- How Russian/soviet colonialism was experienced by various groups and how it produced and orientalised the Other
- What kind of power relations stand behind concept of post-Soviet
- How is Russian/ Soviet colonial experience different/unique?
- How the post-Soviet as decolonial is conceptualized?
- To What Extent the Post-Soviet Condition is Postcolonial?
- How process of decolonisation works in art, literature and social life
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Student knows what is postcolonialism, postsocialism, decolonialism and s/he is able to give examples of these processes
Student increases his/her reflexivity in the perception of processes of postcolonialism and decolonisation in particularity in the post-soviet space
Student develops his/her competences to critically look at political, social and cultural reality of post-Soviet societies
Bibliography
Budryte, Dovile. 2016. “Decolonization of Trauma and Memory Politics: Insights from Eastern Europe.” Humanities. https://doi.org/10.3390/h5010007.
Cervinkova, Hana. 2012. “Postcolonialism, Postsocialism and the Anthropology of East-Central Europe.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (2): 155–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.658246.
Chari, Sharad, and Katherine Verdery. 2009. “Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 51 (1): 6–34.
Dogadaeva S, Zavadski A (2024) Editorial. Two Dialogues on Self-Decolonization. The February Journal, 03: 1–10. DOI: 10.35074/FJ.2024.40.12.00
Etkind, Alexander. 2011. Internal Colonization. Russia’s Imperial Experience. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Hirsch, Francine. 2005. Empire of Nations Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Hladík, Radim. 2011. “A Theory’s Travelogue: Post-Colonial Theory in Post-Socialist Space.” Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 33 (4).
Kagarlicki, Boris. 2012. Imperium Peryferii. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej.
Kivelson, Valerie, and Ronald Suny. 2017. Russia’ Empires. New York and Oxford: OUP.
Koobak, Redi, Madina Tlostanova, and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert. 2021. “Introduction: Uneasy Affinities between the Postcolonial and the Postsocialist.” In Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues, edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, 1–10. New York: Routledge.
Oushakine, Serguei. 2013. “Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space Between Stalin and Hitler.” In , 285-315. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8pzbhw.18.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 2006. “Are You Postcolonial? To the Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Literatures.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121 (3): 828–29. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1632/S0030812900165903.
Tlostanova, Madina. 2015. “Between the Russian/Soviet Dependencies, Neoliberal Delusions, Dewesternizing Options, and Decolonial Drives.” Cultural Dynamics 27 (2): 267– 283. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/0921374015585230.
———. 2018. “The Postcolonial and the Postsocialist: A Deferred Coalition.” An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies 3 (1): 1–37. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2554334.
———. 2020. “The Postcolonial Сondition and the Decolonial Option: A Postsocialist Mediation.” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 1 (161): 66–84. https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/161_nlo_1_2020/article/21972/.
Tlostanova, Madina, and Walter D. Mignolo. 2012. Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara, and Yuliya Yurchuk. 2019. “Memory Politics in Contemporary Ukraine: Reflections from the Postcolonial Perspective.” Memory Studies 12 (6): 699–720. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698017727806.
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