Next up: Yegor Vlasenko
“Decommunization” and National State-Building in Ukraine"
Historical reconstructions and cracked relations
Q from Chair:
What was the inspiration for the policy? Has there been any dialogue with other post-soviet countries, e.g. Georgia?
Vlasenko:
There was some effort to align with other countries in the region, but the distinctive case in Ukraine is how late these transformations happened
Olivia Engström begins: ‘Spatial Resilience Tactic of Urban Public Space Repurposing in the Shrinking City: The Sustaining Community of Estonian Border City of Narva’
Engström:
Sustainability discourse entered all dimensions of our lives
In Narva, I examine urban public space repurposing, dynamics of spatial meetings
Post-socialist transitions here brought big changes, lost jobs, shrinking cities
Urban public space repurposing can show strategies of resilience
I performed a multi-cited ethnography to explore the ways people make sense of the city