de.hypothesesApr 10

How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?

Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579

#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse

How to Look at File Photographs: Archive, Optical Citizenship, and Documentary Art

How are film and photographic documents produced by various repressive regimes used in their own context and later reinterpreted? As a researcher in visual studies, I analyze archives and their evolution somewhat differently than...

The Decentered Archive
de.hypothesesMar 31, 2025

“Ours” or One of “Theirs”?

Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne (#LeibnizIOS) explores post-Soviet identities and their political implications among people from the former USSR in Bavaria, reflecting on her personal experiences during fieldwork as a social anthropologist. 👇

https://ostblog.hypotheses.org/7696

#hypoverse #PostSovietStudies #USSR #fieldwork #SociaAnthropology #Georgia

“Ours” or One of “Theirs”: Contextualizing Belonging(s) among “Russian Germans” and Jews from the Former USSR in Bavaria

by Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne Our author is a social anthropologist. This blog post reflects on personal experiences during her fieldwork, exploring the complexities of post-Soviet identities and their political implications among people from the former USSR in Bavaria. “I’m out with older ladies again. The meeting is over and we take the underground together. There are […]

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de.hypothesesMay 2, 2024

Kirchen als „kleine Orte, an denen große Themen“ sich neu ordnen, wo global mächtig wirkende Prozesse veranschaulicht werden und der Widerhall von Konflikten zu spüren ist:

Nino Aivazishvili- Gehne über ungeteilte Heilige und getrennte spirituelle Räume zwischen Georgien und Russland 👇

https://ambivalenzen.hypotheses.org/566

#Ambivalenzen #Russland #Georgien #PostSovietStudies #Religionswissenschaft

Postsowjetische orthodoxe Konflikte. Kriege und Heilige

Sakrale Räume können als „Portal zu anderen Welten“ dienen.[1] Es sind „fließende“ Räume, die in der Lage sind, globale Prozesse auf lokaler Ebene zu gestalten. Beziehungen verursachen Vermischung der Zugehörigkeiten, und es kommt zu...

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