TY - BOOK ID - 134826560 TI - Postsocialist Landscapes AU - Lahusen, Thomas AU - Schahadat, Schamma PY - 2020 SN - 3839451248 9783839451243 383765124X PB - Bielefeld DB - UniCat KW - (Post-)Socialism; Urban Studies; Literature; East European Studies; Hybrid Spatialities; Memory Culture; Space; Society; Cultural Studies KW - Cultural Studies. KW - East European Studies. KW - Hybrid Spatialities. KW - Literature. KW - Memory Culture. KW - Society. KW - Space. KW - Urban Studies. KW - 2000-2099 KW - Former communist countries. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134826560 AB - Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism, of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the description of (post-)socialist interiors, façades, neighborhoods, parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of the »second world« today. ER -