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Transnational circulation of cultural form: multiple agencies of heritage making
(Routledge, 11 August 2019)The article analyses the evolution of the Soviet heritage-making policy in late socialism. Based on archival sources and interviews with former key experts from the Soviet ICOMOS committee, as well as other activists in ... -
Echo of 1989? Protest imaginaries and identity dilemmas in Belarus
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) / Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 2021)The revolution of 2020 in Belarus has often been described as a new 1989 and there is no doubt that the emancipatory appeal of the Belarusian protests is similar to the one that sustained the 1989 revolutions. But will ... -
Socialism, Heritage and Internationalism after 1945. The Second World and Beyond
(Routledge, 9 December 2020)The international histories of cultural heritage protection have been commonly focussed on the Eurocentric trajectories of heritage evolution in the twentieth century and trace the Western roots of cultural globalisation ... -
Symbolic Capital of the Memory of communism. The quest for international recognition in Kazakhstan
(Springer, 6 January 2021)The article contributes to the theorisation of collective memory involved in building the international representations of a nation, and examines how strategic responses to the legacy of the totalitarian past have been ... -
Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan
(Routledge, 25 March 2021)This article examines the role of outer space technopolitics in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It explores how outer space, the technological artefact of global relevance, works as a postcolonial fetish of modernity that is ...