In and Out of Crisis: Chronotopes of Memory

Abstract

Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society traverses the boundaries between the humanities and the social sciences to critically explore the cultural and social dimensions of contemporary globalization processes. This entails looking at the way globalization unfolds through and within cultural and social practices, and identifying and understanding how it effects cultural and social change across the world. The series asks what, in its different guises and unequal diffusion, globalization is taken to be and do in and across specific locations, and what social, political and cultural forms and imaginations this makes possible or renders obsolete. A particular focus is the vital contribution made by different forms of the imagination (social, cultural, popular) to the conception, experience and critique of contemporary globalization. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society is committed to addressing globalization across cultural contexts (western and non-western) through interdisciplinary, theoretically driven scholarship that is empirically grounded in detailed case studies and close analyses. Within the scope outlined above, we invite junior and senior scholars to submit proposals for monographs, edited volumes and the Palgrave Pivot format.

Remembering Transition in Contemporary South African and Russian Literatures: Between Melancholia and Repair

“…While many contemporary dystopias critique the neoliberal condition, more often than not these narratives involve depoliticized representations of catastrophic present/future and fail to provide visions of solidarity (Kunkel 2008). A dialectics of utopia/dystopia, with dystopianism dominating the post-transitional present, is also what interconnects post-1990s Russian and South African cultures (Robbe and Stuit 2021).  Among the discussed texts are Olga Slavnikova's 2017, Dmitry Bykov's Evacuator and ZhD, Vladimir Sorokin's Day of the Oprichnik, Alexander Garros and Alexei Evdokimov's Chukhche, and Valery Shemiakin's Eniki-Beniki.…”

Crisi. Una conversazione interdisciplinare su una parola chiave della nostra congiuntura storica

“…Ecco il tratto che rende politico l'affetto e che lo rende materia di interi paesaggi affettivi, siti di potere e di conflitto (Grossberg 2017). Anche nelle crisi l'affetto fa da perno della narrazione del contesto politico presente e contemporaneamente è elemento chiave per il mutare di questa stessa narrazione, per esempio attraverso i meccanismi di memorial'infrastruttura che connette passato presente e futuroe in particolare i cronotopi della memoria, che, secondo l'intuizione di Mikhail Bakhtin, sostengono quella connessione intrinseca di tempo e spazio che può essere narrata, ridisegnata e riappropriata in modi sempre nuovi (Robbe et al 2021).…”