Description

This lecture will address the epistemic gap of Eastern European perspectives and perspectives from the Global East in Western academia. We will grapple with the terms ‘Eastern Europe’, ‘post-socialism,’ and ‘Global East’ as well as with what postcolonial and decolonial means in this context and what eff ects their usage has on knowledge production. The discussion will touch upon how Eastern European/post-socialist studies emerged as a fi eld and what it would mean to decolonise this study area. We will also discuss what it essentially means to study the areas of the world marked by intersecting imperial and anti-imperial histories