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“The piano that no longer plays”—The impact of intersecting traumas on narrative identity in Herta Müller's novel Atemschaukel

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 41-52, February 2026.
Abstract In this article, I analyze the intersecting traumas that appear in Herta Müller's novel Atemschaukel (2008), and their effect on the main character's narrative identity, through the perspective of feminist trauma studies and narrative hermeneutics.
Liisa Merivuori
wiley   +1 more source

The Gulag After Stalin

open access: yes, 2017
This book reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. The text argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that re-educated
Jeffrey S. Hardy
core   +1 more source

Wounded Place‐Based Memories in Romania: Towards Social Justice for the Deportees in the Bărăgan Area

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent studies urge deeper debate on memory and social justice in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe. One of the harshest events in communist Romania was the deportation from the Romanian‐Yugoslav border to the Bărăgan Plain. By analyzing 27 interviews from www.deportatiinBaragan.ro, we examine how memories of deportation unfolded.
Remus Crețan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exilul „concentraţionar” şi poezia ca libertate [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2012
In Ion Caraion’s poetry, exile is, more than a poetic theme, a reality of the human being, an ontological state. This existential condition appears in a number of essential hypostases in his poetic universe: the concentrationary exile, the political ...
Sorin Ivan
doaj  

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

Ambiguity and dilution in Kazakhstan's Gulag heritage [PDF]

open access: yes
Kazakhstan is the location of some of the most important Gulag heritage from the Soviet period of domination. However, commemoration, conservation and interpretation of Gulag sites is at best partial, visitation low and the attitude to this element of ...
Lennon, J. John, Tiberghien, Guillaume
core   +1 more source

Muselmann ve Dohodyaga: Nazi ve Sovyet Toplama Kamplarında Yaşayan Ölüler

open access: yesLectio Socialis, 2020
Bu çalışma, Nazi ve Sovyet toplama kamplarının iki simgesel ve eşdeğer figürü olan Muselmann ve dohodyaga’yı ele alır. Nazi kamplarında ölümün kıyısına gelmiş, beslenme yetersizliği ve salgın hastalıklar nedeniyle kuruyan derisi iskeletine yapışmış ...
Duygu Özakın
doaj  

Carceral Remains, Abolition Remains: Immigration Detention in Madrid

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper concerns CIE Aluche, an immigration detention center in Madrid's southwestern inner suburbs. This site is the location of overlapping political struggles—over urban planning, historical memory, migrant justice, and detention abolition. In this paper, I unpack what I call the carceral and abolition remains of this site.
Leah Montange
wiley   +1 more source

Policing the Environmental Crisis: Climate Protest, the State, and Law and Order

open access: yes
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 274-284, June 2026.
Oscar Talbot
wiley   +1 more source

Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 3-26, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
wiley   +1 more source

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