Reassembling the Event

Estonia's 'Bronze Night

Bibliographic Data

ID4476154
AuthorsRobert Kaiser (0009-0002-4035-6805, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume30
Issue6
Pages1046-1063
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d18210
OpenAlexW2003145890
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited34

At the end of April 2007, an event unfolded in Tallinn, Estonia, that came to be called the 'Bronze Night'. Most of the research on this event-and on events in general-uses an after-the-act representational approach that treats events as effects whose cause lies elsewhere, external to the event in its becoming. Partially because of this, most research into events emphasizes temporal path-dependency and all but ignores the spatiality of events. Following Deleuze's philosophy of the event, I seek to learn from the Bronze Night as an event by using an in-the-act procedure of reassemblage. In reassembling the event, I pay special attention to its spatiality: to processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization, to event-spaces produced and partially captured, and to the event's transitivity to new spaces. The paper ends with a discussion of the ways in which the conditions of the problem that actualized the event were newly determined in and through the event, creating opportunities for the event's counteractualization

Deterritorialization · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Transitive relation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Mathematics · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

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