DAE Lecture Series with Madina Tlostanova

The second lecture of this series of special lectures dedicated to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine will address how global coloniality, a concept that in itself was a product of the end of the Cold War and the pessimism of the global left, has affected the locales that are usually left out of the most discussions of imperial-colonial relations - the Eastern European nations at the crossroads of different imperial rivalries and clashes. In particular, we will address the issue of the imperial difference that helps to better understand the Eastern European predicament. We will also touch upon the darker colonial side of the state socialist and particularly Soviet modernity with its internationalist rhetoric and colonialist logic, and the trope of recolonization presented as decolonization. Finally, we will try to make sense of the postsocialist neoliberal realities, and the ways Eastern European nations imagine their survival and refuturing.