Alena Pfoser
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170134 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alena Pfoser |
| NOMBRES | Alena |
| APELLIDO | Pfoser |
| FIRMA | PFOSER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8933-014X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Russian language as imperial heritage
This article examines how Russian mobile populations perceive the status of Russian language in the former Soviet republics. Approaching Russian language as contested imperial heritage, the article contributes to discussions on language as heritage and widens existing research on imperial heritage beyond tangible heritage. Moreover, it contributes to a more differentiated analysis of Russians’ relations to imperial heritage that goes beyond imper…
Between official and vernacular memories
Bodnar’s conceptualisation of official, vernacular and public memory offers a compelling framework for analysing the dynamics of collective remembering. However, due to its development in a democratic setting, it is unclear whether it can be applied to contexts where memory is under tight state control. This article examines the dynamics of official, vernacular and public memory in China, focusing on memories of Han migration to Xinjiang. Drawing…
Beyond difficult pasts
Despite being a crucial field for the public production and circulation of memories, tourism remains underexamined in memory research. This is reflected in the small number of publications dedicated to tourism and their thematic narrowing to difficult heritage sites. This article makes the case for an expansion of research in three areas: sites, modes and scales of remembering. First, the article argues for an examination of less researched herit…
When Monument Battles Go Digital
In the context of increasing conflicts over material heritage around the world, this article examines the role digital media play in battles over monuments. The rise of digital media brought significant changes to the cultural dynamics of heritage conflicts, which have not been adequately addressed in existing literature. Bringing together work on monuments, (digital) memory conflicts, and digital activism, we identify three key dimensions of mon…
Uncovering disciplined pasts
This article examines practices of tour guiding in Kyiv in the context of an ideologically disciplined commemorative culture. Responding to calls for more critical engagement with changing place names, we show how tour guides use them to walk the fine line between entertaining their guests and positioning themselves in memory debates
Tourism, Memory Production and Contested Ethnic Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Almaty
Memory politics in post-Soviet cities is a growing area of research with significant political implications. However, there is still relatively little consideration of memory production in the sphere of tourism, particularly when it comes to the analysis of memory practices beyond official city branding. Focusing on the case of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital, this article puts forward a multi-actor analysis of memory-making in city branding,…
Memory and the everyday geopolitics of tourism
This article examines the geopolitical implications of memory production in Russian tourism to post-Soviet cities. Based on fifty qualitative interviews conducted in Tallinn, Kyiv and Almaty in 2019, it reveals how, by remembering the shared Tsarist and Soviet past, tourists rework relations to places that used to be part of their own state. Tourist memories are ambiguous, showing imperial nostalgia for a former homeland as well as recognising th…
Memory and Everyday Borderwork
The field of border studies has traditionally paid little attention to questions of temporality, leading to criticisms over its presentism and lack of historical reflexivity. A number of recent publications have brought temporal questions more centrally into border research, examining the changing and historically contingent nature of borders. This article intervenes in this body of scholarship, using memory as a means of studying the past and pr…
Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting
While the tourism industry is oriented towards creating attractive images of destinations, histories of violence and suffering have increasingly been incorporated into tourism offers and are often actively promoted by states and tourism organisations. A growing body of scholarship has focused on how difficult pasts have been represented and have analysed the driving factors behind the rise of such heritage. Commercial tourism offers such as guide…
Tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters
The turn towards transnational memory has largely focused on particular sites and modes of remembering, focusing on the creation of memories between and beyond nation-states in institutional politics, the media, migration and to a lesser degree social movements. Despite its significance for encountering other people’s past, international tourism remains under-examined in the scholarship due to a focus on macro-developments, a polarisation along a…
I’m not being paid for this conversation’
Artist–academic collaborations are fuelled by increasing institutional pressures to show the impact of academic research. This article departs from the celebratory accounts of collaborative work and pragmatic toolkits for successful partnerships, which are dominant in existing scholarship, arguing for the need to critically interrogate the structural conditions under which collaborations take place. Based on a reflexive case study of a project de…
Narratives of peripheralisation
Research on spatial polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe has tended to focus on macro-economic processes that create certain places and people as peripheral and has highlighted the socioeconomic impact of peripheralisation, while paying only limited attention to local experiences and responses. Drawing on a multiscalar conception of peripheralisation processes, the article examines the making of socio-spatial inequalities from the perspecti…
Nested Peripheralisation
This article is part of the special section titled Recursive Easts, Shifting Peripheries, guest edited by Pamela Ballinger. The break-up of the Cold War order, the eastwards expansion of the European Union into former socialist countries and the more recent economic and humanitarian crises have led to the emergence of new symbolic borders and the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchies within Europe. The article shows how metageographical categori…
Border Work. Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Europe-Asia Studies on 17 Apr 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2015.1020040
Between Security and Mobility
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 27th Feb 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1015408
Between Russia and Estonia
The Russian–Estonian border has undergone radical changes in the past two decades – from an integrated borderland between two Soviet republics to a border between nation-states and the new EU external border. Until the present day, it is a discursive battlefield that reflects the difficult relations between Russia and Estonia after the restoration of Estonia's independence. While much research has concentrated on antagonistic projects of identity…
Memory and Everyday Borderwork
The field of border studies has traditionally paid little attention to questions of temporality, leading to criticisms over its presentism and lack of historical reflexivity. A number of recent publications have brought temporal questions more centrally into border research, examining the changing and historically contingent nature of borders. This article intervenes in this body of scholarship, using memory as a means of studying the past and pr…
Tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters
The turn towards transnational memory has largely focused on particular sites and modes of remembering, focusing on the creation of memories between and beyond nation-states in institutional politics, the media, migration and to a lesser degree social movements. Despite its significance for encountering other people’s past, international tourism remains under-examined in the scholarship due to a focus on macro-developments, a polarisation along a…
Between Security and Mobility
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 27th Feb 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1015408
Memory and the everyday geopolitics of tourism
This article examines the geopolitical implications of memory production in Russian tourism to post-Soviet cities. Based on fifty qualitative interviews conducted in Tallinn, Kyiv and Almaty in 2019, it reveals how, by remembering the shared Tsarist and Soviet past, tourists rework relations to places that used to be part of their own state. Tourist memories are ambiguous, showing imperial nostalgia for a former homeland as well as recognising th…
Nested Peripheralisation
This article is part of the special section titled Recursive Easts, Shifting Peripheries, guest edited by Pamela Ballinger. The break-up of the Cold War order, the eastwards expansion of the European Union into former socialist countries and the more recent economic and humanitarian crises have led to the emergence of new symbolic borders and the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchies within Europe. The article shows how metageographical categori…
Between Russia and Estonia
The Russian–Estonian border has undergone radical changes in the past two decades – from an integrated borderland between two Soviet republics to a border between nation-states and the new EU external border. Until the present day, it is a discursive battlefield that reflects the difficult relations between Russia and Estonia after the restoration of Estonia's independence. While much research has concentrated on antagonistic projects of identity…
Narratives of peripheralisation
Research on spatial polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe has tended to focus on macro-economic processes that create certain places and people as peripheral and has highlighted the socioeconomic impact of peripheralisation, while paying only limited attention to local experiences and responses. Drawing on a multiscalar conception of peripheralisation processes, the article examines the making of socio-spatial inequalities from the perspecti…
I’m not being paid for this conversation’
Artist–academic collaborations are fuelled by increasing institutional pressures to show the impact of academic research. This article departs from the celebratory accounts of collaborative work and pragmatic toolkits for successful partnerships, which are dominant in existing scholarship, arguing for the need to critically interrogate the structural conditions under which collaborations take place. Based on a reflexive case study of a project de…
Uncovering disciplined pasts
This article examines practices of tour guiding in Kyiv in the context of an ideologically disciplined commemorative culture. Responding to calls for more critical engagement with changing place names, we show how tour guides use them to walk the fine line between entertaining their guests and positioning themselves in memory debates
Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting
While the tourism industry is oriented towards creating attractive images of destinations, histories of violence and suffering have increasingly been incorporated into tourism offers and are often actively promoted by states and tourism organisations. A growing body of scholarship has focused on how difficult pasts have been represented and have analysed the driving factors behind the rise of such heritage. Commercial tourism offers such as guide…
Beyond difficult pasts
Despite being a crucial field for the public production and circulation of memories, tourism remains underexamined in memory research. This is reflected in the small number of publications dedicated to tourism and their thematic narrowing to difficult heritage sites. This article makes the case for an expansion of research in three areas: sites, modes and scales of remembering. First, the article argues for an examination of less researched herit…
When Monument Battles Go Digital
In the context of increasing conflicts over material heritage around the world, this article examines the role digital media play in battles over monuments. The rise of digital media brought significant changes to the cultural dynamics of heritage conflicts, which have not been adequately addressed in existing literature. Bringing together work on monuments, (digital) memory conflicts, and digital activism, we identify three key dimensions of mon…
Between Russia and Estonia
The Russian–Estonian border has undergone radical changes in the past two decades – from an integrated borderland between two Soviet republics to a border between nation-states and the new EU external border. Until the present day, it is a discursive battlefield that reflects the difficult relations between Russia and Estonia after the restoration of Estonia's independence. While much research has concentrated on antagonistic projects of identity…
Border Work. Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Europe-Asia Studies on 17 Apr 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2015.1020040
Between Security and Mobility
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 27th Feb 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1015408
Narratives of peripheralisation
Research on spatial polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe has tended to focus on macro-economic processes that create certain places and people as peripheral and has highlighted the socioeconomic impact of peripheralisation, while paying only limited attention to local experiences and responses. Drawing on a multiscalar conception of peripheralisation processes, the article examines the making of socio-spatial inequalities from the perspecti…
Nested Peripheralisation
This article is part of the special section titled Recursive Easts, Shifting Peripheries, guest edited by Pamela Ballinger. The break-up of the Cold War order, the eastwards expansion of the European Union into former socialist countries and the more recent economic and humanitarian crises have led to the emergence of new symbolic borders and the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchies within Europe. The article shows how metageographical categori…
Tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters
The turn towards transnational memory has largely focused on particular sites and modes of remembering, focusing on the creation of memories between and beyond nation-states in institutional politics, the media, migration and to a lesser degree social movements. Despite its significance for encountering other people’s past, international tourism remains under-examined in the scholarship due to a focus on macro-developments, a polarisation along a…
I’m not being paid for this conversation’
Artist–academic collaborations are fuelled by increasing institutional pressures to show the impact of academic research. This article departs from the celebratory accounts of collaborative work and pragmatic toolkits for successful partnerships, which are dominant in existing scholarship, arguing for the need to critically interrogate the structural conditions under which collaborations take place. Based on a reflexive case study of a project de…
Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting
While the tourism industry is oriented towards creating attractive images of destinations, histories of violence and suffering have increasingly been incorporated into tourism offers and are often actively promoted by states and tourism organisations. A growing body of scholarship has focused on how difficult pasts have been represented and have analysed the driving factors behind the rise of such heritage. Commercial tourism offers such as guide…
Tourism, Memory Production and Contested Ethnic Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Almaty
Memory politics in post-Soviet cities is a growing area of research with significant political implications. However, there is still relatively little consideration of memory production in the sphere of tourism, particularly when it comes to the analysis of memory practices beyond official city branding. Focusing on the case of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital, this article puts forward a multi-actor analysis of memory-making in city branding,…
Memory and the everyday geopolitics of tourism
This article examines the geopolitical implications of memory production in Russian tourism to post-Soviet cities. Based on fifty qualitative interviews conducted in Tallinn, Kyiv and Almaty in 2019, it reveals how, by remembering the shared Tsarist and Soviet past, tourists rework relations to places that used to be part of their own state. Tourist memories are ambiguous, showing imperial nostalgia for a former homeland as well as recognising th…
Memory and Everyday Borderwork
The field of border studies has traditionally paid little attention to questions of temporality, leading to criticisms over its presentism and lack of historical reflexivity. A number of recent publications have brought temporal questions more centrally into border research, examining the changing and historically contingent nature of borders. This article intervenes in this body of scholarship, using memory as a means of studying the past and pr…
Uncovering disciplined pasts
This article examines practices of tour guiding in Kyiv in the context of an ideologically disciplined commemorative culture. Responding to calls for more critical engagement with changing place names, we show how tour guides use them to walk the fine line between entertaining their guests and positioning themselves in memory debates
Beyond difficult pasts
Despite being a crucial field for the public production and circulation of memories, tourism remains underexamined in memory research. This is reflected in the small number of publications dedicated to tourism and their thematic narrowing to difficult heritage sites. This article makes the case for an expansion of research in three areas: sites, modes and scales of remembering. First, the article argues for an examination of less researched herit…
When Monument Battles Go Digital
In the context of increasing conflicts over material heritage around the world, this article examines the role digital media play in battles over monuments. The rise of digital media brought significant changes to the cultural dynamics of heritage conflicts, which have not been adequately addressed in existing literature. Bringing together work on monuments, (digital) memory conflicts, and digital activism, we identify three key dimensions of mon…
Between official and vernacular memories
Bodnar’s conceptualisation of official, vernacular and public memory offers a compelling framework for analysing the dynamics of collective remembering. However, due to its development in a democratic setting, it is unclear whether it can be applied to contexts where memory is under tight state control. This article examines the dynamics of official, vernacular and public memory in China, focusing on memories of Han migration to Xinjiang. Drawing…
Russian language as imperial heritage
This article examines how Russian mobile populations perceive the status of Russian language in the former Soviet republics. Approaching Russian language as contested imperial heritage, the article contributes to discussions on language as heritage and widens existing research on imperial heritage beyond tangible heritage. Moreover, it contributes to a more differentiated analysis of Russians’ relations to imperial heritage that goes beyond imper…
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · History (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (5 obras)