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Articles by Stephan Collishaw

1. Laura Lapinské (151) Care to live. Everyday strategies among single mothers in Lithuania

   Abstract [en] This dissertation, Care to Live, offers an in-depth ethnographic study of well-educated single mothers navigating everyday life in Kaunas, […]

2. Moa Höglund (150) Platser att minnas på. Venedigbiennalen 1991-1993, postsocialism och de nationella paviljongerna [Places of Remembrance. The Venice Biennale 1991–1993, post-socialism and the national pavilions]

   Places of Remembrance examines the cultural functions served by the Hungarian (1909–), Polish (1932–), and Czech-Slovak (1926–) pavilions in the Venice […]

3. Nicholas Lawrence (149) Salomon Mainmon’s Life; or, the History of the Imagining I

   Abstract [en] This thesis breaks with tradition by reading Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy. Rather than the mere re-telling […]

4. Ellen Jacobsson (148) Integrators. Contradictions in Practice

   Abstract [en] This thesis investigates contemporary practices focused on facilitating the integration of those who, for various reasons, are perceived […]

5. In Memoriam Kristian Gerner

   Kristian Gerner (b. 1942), esteemed historian and emeritus professor of history at Lund University, passed away on April 2, 2026, in Lund, Sweden, at the age of 83. His voice in Sweden’s public and academic life will be greatly missed.

6. Introducing the Belarus Voices: A New Book Series on Politics, Society, and Culture in Belarus

   An important goal for the new series is to create a space where scholars from different disciplines can engage with one another. Research on Belarus is often dispersed across various fields — political science, history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies — and the series aims to bring these perspectives into dialogue.

7. Wild Peace and Unruly Memories

   Why is it so easy to remember war and so hard to remember peace? In order to bring forth memories of peace we need to reconceptualize what we mean by peace. I propose the term wild peace as a conceptual and potentially radical move that engage our imagination and capture the lived, embodied and agential dimensions of peace. Memories of wild peace are unruly as they hold the power to unsettle hegemonic narratives and point to alternative futures. I argue that unruly memories of wild peace are important at the present time, when the very idea of peace is contested and undermined.

8. Still “catching up”? The ideas of “Europeanness” in East Central Europe Introduction. Lingering dream of “Europe”: negotiating in-betweenness and East-West divide

   Postcolonial scholarship has made a significant contribution by highlighting and critically assessing the liminal, inbetween positionality of Eastern Europe, which has contributed to the neglect of voices and experiences from the region. Discourses that construct and reproduce the notion of Eastern Europe “catching up” have been examined in historical, anthropological, and sociological contexts, as well as across various fields, including international relations, memory studies, democratization, and European integration. This theme section explores some of these intricacies through the case studies of Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia.

9. Expelled from Communist Poland. Polish Jews in Sweden since the 1960s

   Vi, de fördrivna. Historiska erfarenheter hos polska judar som kom till Sverige 1967–1972 [We, the exiled. Historical experiences of Polish Jews who came to Sweden 1967–1972] Martin Englund, Södertörn doctoral dissertations, Stockholm, Södertörns högskola, (2025), 322 pages.

10. Ecocide in Ukraine. An epistemological dimension of loss

    Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War Darya Tsymbalyuk, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025) 208 pages.

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