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Elena Trubina
is professor of philosophy at Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her research deals broadly with social theory, urban and cultural studies, and the interactions between urban space and subjectivity. She has been visiting scholar at Bauhaus-Dessau, IFK (Vienna), and Harvard University. She is co-organizer of the interdisciplinary international project "Diverse Cultures in the Contemporary World", sponsored by the Kennan Institute, and the Russian-Finnish project on the Russian media coverage of the ideas of the good life and post-Soviet subjectivities.
Eurozine Articles
Practising owning and fearing losing
Normality as materiality
Transitional narratives of "then and now" omit a central attribute of "normality" that existed during socialism: materiality. It was eastern Europeans' experience of being owners and makers of things that has ensured the continuity of experience. [more]