Spotlight: Dr Dace Dzenovska
Channel: COMPAS, University of Oxford
Date: 2019-12-11

Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy after (Post) Socialism

For some years now, the global public space has been saturated with images of depopulated Eastern European villages and the ruins of Soviet industrial cities. But there is little understanding of what it means to inhabit—and govern—the settlements that are increasingly abandoned by capital, the state, and people. I see these places as crucial coordinates in the global landscape of capitalism. They are as significant as megacities for understanding how novel forms of economic and political power are remaking the world.

Associate Professor in Anthropology of Migration, Dace Dzenovska is one of the recipients of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant competition, for her project on the emptying cities, towns, and villages in Eastern Europe and Russia.

For further details, visit: https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2019/dace-dzenovska-awarded-erc-grant-for-research-on-emptying-towns-and-villages-in-eastern-europe/