Gregory Gan
Biographic Data
| ID | 655976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Gan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Gan |
| SIGNATURE | GAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4556-6094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time after Time
Following the Second World War, German cities would be transformed by urban planning mandates that sought to create a new East German identity through public art and architecture. Initially, these followed a Socialist Realist doctrine largely dictated by the Soviet Union. However, even as the Soviet Union softened its stance, the style of Socialist Realism persisted in the GDR, and became instrumental in shaping a unique architectural and artisti…
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”
In 2017, Moscow launched an urban renewal campaign proposing to tear down eight thousand panel-block apartment buildings aiming to relocate over a million and a half residents into newly built high-rises. The campaign provoked diverse reactions ranging from anger to excitement for the chance to improve living conditions. The author began ethnographic research on the eve of the first phase of demolition in 2021, inviting Moscow-, and Berlin-based …
“Space shapes a person; constraints free the soul”
This visual anthropology project was informed by a series of plein-air water-color sketches of panel-block apartment buildings, painted in conversation with ethnographic research participants in Moscow in 2021. Such housing, built on an industrial scale during Nikita Khrushchev’s mass-housing campaign between 1955 and 1964, and which came to be nicknamed khrushchevkas , became ubiquitous across the Soviet Union. In 2017, in Moscow, Russia, panel-…
And With Me, My Russia/I Bring Along in a Travelling Bag’
A much-circulated trope amongst post-Revolutionary refugees from Bolshevik Russia stated that upon emigration, 'Russia' became reconstituted 'outside Russia'. This narrative became central to how subsequent émigrés imagined their journeys abroad, simultaneously asserting historical continuity with other 'waves' of Russian emigration and defining their own migration trajectory in opposition to them. This research, based on contemporary ethnographi…
Soaring to dizzying heights
On 21 February 2012, a female Russian punk collective 'Pussy Riot' performed a 'Punk Prayer Against Putin' on the soleas of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The ensuing controversy over the performance, as well as criminal charges brought against three members of the group, made explicit the contentious nature of the place of Pussy Riot's 'punk prayer'. The author examines place in its dual identity as an event and as an actor, one affec…
Soaring to dizzying heights
On 21 February 2012, a female Russian punk collective 'Pussy Riot' performed a 'Punk Prayer Against Putin' on the soleas of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The ensuing controversy over the performance, as well as criminal charges brought against three members of the group, made explicit the contentious nature of the place of Pussy Riot's 'punk prayer'. The author examines place in its dual identity as an event and as an actor, one affec…
And With Me, My Russia/I Bring Along in a Travelling Bag’
A much-circulated trope amongst post-Revolutionary refugees from Bolshevik Russia stated that upon emigration, 'Russia' became reconstituted 'outside Russia'. This narrative became central to how subsequent émigrés imagined their journeys abroad, simultaneously asserting historical continuity with other 'waves' of Russian emigration and defining their own migration trajectory in opposition to them. This research, based on contemporary ethnographi…
Soaring to dizzying heights
On 21 February 2012, a female Russian punk collective 'Pussy Riot' performed a 'Punk Prayer Against Putin' on the soleas of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The ensuing controversy over the performance, as well as criminal charges brought against three members of the group, made explicit the contentious nature of the place of Pussy Riot's 'punk prayer'. The author examines place in its dual identity as an event and as an actor, one affec…
And With Me, My Russia/I Bring Along in a Travelling Bag’
A much-circulated trope amongst post-Revolutionary refugees from Bolshevik Russia stated that upon emigration, 'Russia' became reconstituted 'outside Russia'. This narrative became central to how subsequent émigrés imagined their journeys abroad, simultaneously asserting historical continuity with other 'waves' of Russian emigration and defining their own migration trajectory in opposition to them. This research, based on contemporary ethnographi…
“Space shapes a person; constraints free the soul”
This visual anthropology project was informed by a series of plein-air water-color sketches of panel-block apartment buildings, painted in conversation with ethnographic research participants in Moscow in 2021. Such housing, built on an industrial scale during Nikita Khrushchev’s mass-housing campaign between 1955 and 1964, and which came to be nicknamed khrushchevkas , became ubiquitous across the Soviet Union. In 2017, in Moscow, Russia, panel-…
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”
In 2017, Moscow launched an urban renewal campaign proposing to tear down eight thousand panel-block apartment buildings aiming to relocate over a million and a half residents into newly built high-rises. The campaign provoked diverse reactions ranging from anger to excitement for the chance to improve living conditions. The author began ethnographic research on the eve of the first phase of demolition in 2021, inviting Moscow-, and Berlin-based …
Time after Time
Following the Second World War, German cities would be transformed by urban planning mandates that sought to create a new East German identity through public art and architecture. Initially, these followed a Socialist Realist doctrine largely dictated by the Soviet Union. However, even as the Soviet Union softened its stance, the style of Socialist Realism persisted in the GDR, and became instrumental in shaping a unique architectural and artisti…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works)