Failure as governance in the post-socialist contexts

The workshop explores how notions of failure inform political processes, social transformations, and everyday life in former socialist spaces. It aims to deepen interdisciplinary understanding of how failure functions as a tool of governance taking on different forms across post-communist, post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia. It investigates the conditions and frameworks through which something, someone, or someplace becomes marked as failure, and how value axes – failure vs. success, good vs. bad, or accepted vs. rejected – are constructed, operationalised, and contested in ways that structure social hierarchies, shape access to resources and agency. At the same time, it considers how failure can open up spaces of critique and alternative forms of politics.

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