Emptiness: Living Capitalism and Democracy After (Post)Socialism

Project Information

Emptiness

Grant agreement ID: 865976

DOI

10.3030/865976

Project closed

EC signature date 4 June 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 929 263,00

EU contribution

€ 1 929 263,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

‘National (im-)mobilisation: Controlling movement and exercising mobility in wartime Ukraine’

Author(s): Volodymyr Artiukh
Published in: Conflict and Society, 2026, ISSN 2164-4551
Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Between loss and opportunity

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska, Volodymyr Artiukh, Dominic Martin
Published in: Focaal, Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0920-1297
Publisher: Katholieke Universiteit, Instituut voor Culturele en Sociale Antropologie, University Of Nijmegen
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2023.960101

Good enough sovereignty, or on land as property and territory in Latvia

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2022, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2022.2139253

Between Loss and Opportunity: The Fate of Place After Postsocialism

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska, Volodymyr Artiukh, Dominic Martin
Published in: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Issue 96, 2023, ISSN 0920-1297
Publisher: Katholieke Universiteit, Instituut voor Culturele en Sociale Antropologie, University Of Nijmegen

<i>Nothing there</i> . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance

Author(s): Maria Gunko
Published in: Social &amp; Cultural Geography, 2025, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 1464-9365
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2025.2483712

Emptiness against decolonization: Reflections from an imperial fault line in eastern Latvia

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: Slavic Review, Issue 83(4), 2024, ISSN 2325-7784
Publisher: Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine

Author(s): Sven Daniel Wolfe, Olena Denysenko, Dina Krichker, Olga Rebro, Maria Gunko
Published in: Geopolitics, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 1474-1501, ISSN 1465-0045
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2222936

The Place and Space of Emptiness: An Experiment in Collaborative Ethnographic Comparison

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska, Dominic Martin, Volodymyr Artiukh
Published in: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Issue 15(1), 2025, ISSN 2575-1433
Publisher: Society for Ethnographic Theory

Lost in transformation: comparative analysis of healthcare provision dynamics within urban systems of European Russia and France

Author(s): Maria Gunko, Benoit Conti, Alexander Sheludkov, Sophie Baudet-Michel, Anastasia Novkunskaya
Published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, Issue 65, 2024, Page(s) 94-118, ISSN 1538-7216
Publisher: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2022.2120033

Agrotopias in the Russian Far East

Author(s): Dominic Martin
Published in: Cultural Anthropology, 2026, ISSN 1548-1360
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

Triangulation

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 483-486, ISSN 2575-1433
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/730772

Against Security

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska (with Ruben Andersson)
Published in: Focaal: Journal of Historical and Global Anthropology, 2026, ISSN 1558-5263
Publisher: Berghahn

Postsocialism through the lens of shrinking cities and urban infrastructure

Author(s): Maria Gunko
Published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, Issue 66, 2025, Page(s) 697-704, ISSN 1538-7216
Publisher: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2025.2510355

War and dependent state formation in Ukraine

Author(s): Volodymyr Artiukh and Taras Fedirco
Published in: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2025, ISSN 1558-5263
Publisher: Berghahn Books

The Clash of Sovereignties: The Latvian Subjects and Its Russian Imperialism

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2023, ISSN 2575-1433
Publisher: University of Chicago

Smashed tabernacle: Catholic emptiness and nationalism in post-industrial Scotland

Author(s): Dominic Martin
Published in: Anthropology Today, Issue 38(6), 2022, Page(s) 23-26, ISSN 0268-540X
Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12772

On violence: A response to comments

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: Slavic Review, Issue 83(4), 2024, ISSN 2325-7784
Publisher: Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies

Book chapters (1)

Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People, Their State, and the Problem of Mobility

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Enacting State Agency, 2021, Page(s) 154-74
Publisher: Cornell University Press
DOI: 10.1515/9781501755767-010

Other (3)

Postsocialism

Author(s): Dominic Martin
Published in: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2021, ISSN 2398-516X
Publisher: University of Cambridge
DOI: 10.29164/21postsocialism

Emptiness: An Introduction

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska, Daniel M. Knight
Published in: Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, 2020
Publisher: Society for Cultural Anthropology

Emptiness and Order

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, 2020
Publisher: Society for Cultural Anthropology

Monographic books (2)

Empires We Choose: Migration and Sovereignty in a Double Periphery

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska
Published in: 2027
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Living Emptiness: Place, Power, and Meaning-Making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East

Author(s): Dace Dzenovska, with Volodymyr Artiukh, Dominic Martin, Maria Gunko, Michelle Chew
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Author(s): Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, Nataliya Tchermalykh, Volodymyr Artiukh, Karolina Follis, Ilmari Käihkö, Olena Fedyuk, Emma Rimpiläinen, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Iwona Kaliszewska, Anastasiya Astapova, Agnieszka Halemba, Agata Ładykowska, Mariya Ivancheva
Published in: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 119-156, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2023.310209

Ukrainian Refugees in the EU: Racial Affinity or Selective Securitisation?

Author(s): Volodymyr Artiukh
Published in: Social Anthropology, 2023, ISSN 1469-8676
Publisher: Berghahn

Absent: Illegibility Strategies in the Context of Mobilization during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Author(s): Volodymyr Artiukh
Published in: Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 2026, ISSN 2042-8715
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited