My (post‐)post‐socialism
A personal photo essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19225666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oana Borlea‐Stăncioi (0009-0006-8194-5517, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anhu.70091 |
| OpenAlex | W7160512043 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The paper is a multi‐modal, autoethnographic exploration of the visual remnants of lived post‐communism in a typical block of flats neighborhood of a Romanian city. By using film and digital photography, alongside narrative reflection, the author summons memories and blends observed and lived reality with creative non‐fiction to build an affective photo‐scape. The work is a meditation on visual emotional memory triggers and a cathartic rendering of lingering past(s) in present experiences
Autoethnography · Meditation · Narrative · Photo elicitation · Rendering (computer graphics) · Subconscious · Summons · Unconscious mind · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Photography and Visual Culture · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
The Wedding of the Dead
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania
Politics in Color and Concrete
Postsocialism
History Begins at Home
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East
Between Memory and History
The anthropology of post-socialism
My grandmother was a tailor
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |