The current wars and conflicts have prompted a renewed interest in the nexus between post-socialism and post-colonialism. There is growing recognition of the need to conceptualize the interdependencies between post-socialist and post-colonial sets of social relations in order to gain a deeper understanding of the global power constellations and to develop academic imaginaries of less violent futures.
Bringing together researchers from various disciplinary fields, such as sociology, political sciences, education, geography, history, ethnology, and gender studies, the group aims to study long-term complex interdependencies between postsocialist and postcolonial relations, focusing on the cross-border interactions and entanglements within and between former socialist countries and regions.
The main goal is to develop a conceptual framework that recognizes these interactions as shaped by history and subject to change. The endeavour is guided by the main research question: How do postsocialist and postcolonial relations interact to shape global interdependencies and dynamics of domination and subordination?
Prof. Dr. Anna Amelina
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
Chair of Intercultural Studies
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Karolina Barglowski
Université de Luxembourg
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. (em) Helma Lutz
Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vasilache
Bielefeld University
Faculty of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Birgit Glorius
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Professur Humangeographie mit dem Schwerpunkt Europäische Migrationsforschung
Faculty Humangeografie
Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute of Sociology
Dr. Tetiana Havlin
Siegen University
Facilty of Social Sciences
Dr. Irina Kuznetsova
University of Birmingham
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences
Prof. Dr. Maria Mayerchyk
Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
Faculty for Society and Economics
Manuel Peters
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
Intercultural Studies & UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies
Olga Plakhotnik
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Faculty for History
Yaroslav Zhuravlov
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Imre Kertész Kolleg