Title & Author:

Post-Communist Grounds: In Search of the Commons.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Institute of Network Cultures, 2025.

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
Archived and cataloged by Library Stack.
Introduction / Neda Genova -- Our Figures on Communist Grounds / Rastko Novaković -- Scoring Political Movement and Its Exhaustion / Olia Sosnovskaya -- Speculations on a Borderless Forest Feminism / Hanna Grześkiewicz -- Soil-Making and the Grid of the Atlas: Histories and Imaginings of a Queer Trans Socialist Herbalism / Miha Brebenel -- Losing Common Ground. Common Spaces of Everyday : Creativity and their Enclosures in Post-Socialist Poland / Aleksandra Fila -- Closed Factory Library: Notes on Workers Movements in Belarus / Aleksei Borisionok -- Diagrams: A Series of Failures / xenodata co-operative (Sasha Anikina and Yasemin Keskintepe) -- Georgian Migrant Women Diary / Nino Gavasheli -- As If This World No Longer Existed: Three Theses on the Crisis of Political Belonging / Noah Brehmer -- Fragments towards a Post-Socialist Networked Commons: LeftEast as Praxis / Mary N. Taylor and Mariya P. Ivancheva -- Contributors' Bios.

Summary:

"Post-Communist Grounds: In Search of the Commons is a collection of interventions that seek to explore and activate practices of commoning in post-communism in a range of genres and media forms, with a specific interest in developing experimental aesthetic practices. ​This volume seeks to re-orient discussions about the commons away from prevailing frames of analyses, which tend to 'assume that emancipatory ideas of commons and commoning come from the West' (Vilenica, 2023). On par with this supposition is the devaluation of experiments in commoning situated elsewhere that engage different historical experiences of struggle against enclosures. This includes not only various efforts of organizing reproductive labor, public infrastructure, or free time during state socialism across the so-called 'Eastern Bloc', but also the experiences of anti-imperialist, agrarian, and anarchist struggles and revolts in these regions that may as well have predated or, as it were, outlived the formation of socialist states. The volume brings together contributions that depart from differently constituted 'post-communist grounds' to reshuffle and remix their composition, setting them in productive relation to questions that define our present-day: from an intimate engagement with the feminized experience of labor emigration in contemporary Georgia to the disappearance of spaces of everyday creativity in Poland to accounts of the challenges of internationalist organizing on the Left today through the prism of the collective LeftEast. While some of the contributions engage historical and archival materials from different contexts, none of them employ a reifying approach towards the past. Instead, each works with different materials, media, or modalities of writing - from poetry to illustration, from essay to collage to movement score - to chart alternative coordinates in our present and future grounds of coming together."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Online Resource

ISBN:

(print)
9789083520940

Subject:

Socialism.
Sociology.
Sociologie.
sociology.

Form/genre:

Collections
Anthologies.
Discursive works.

Added entries:

Genova, Neda, editor.
Berdzenishvili, Salome, editor.
Anikina, Sasha, contributor.
Borisionok, Aleksei, contributor.
Brehmer, Noah, contributor.
Brebenel, Miha, contributor.
Fila, Aleksandra, contributor.
Gavasheli, Nino, contributor.
Grześkiewicz, Hanna, contributor.
Ivancheva, Mariya P., contributor.
Novaković, Rastko, contributor.
Sosnovskaya, Olia, contributor.
Taylor, Mary N., contributor.
Keskintepe, Yasemin, contributor.
Bradley, Callum, editor.
Library Stack, distributor.