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The Disintegration of “Power/Knowledge”. Post-Socialist Studies as Decolonial Studies? A Personal Point of View. Part 3: Soft and Hard Variants of Post-Colonial Studies

Publication date: 27.03.2024

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2023, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, pp. 207-230

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.23.020.19439

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Alexander Kiossev
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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The Disintegration of “Power/Knowledge”. Post-Socialist Studies as Decolonial Studies? A Personal Point of View. Part 3: Soft and Hard Variants of Post-Colonial Studies

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The relationship between post-colonial and post-socialist studies is extraordinarily complex. Post-colonialists might argue that it can be approached from different perspectives as well as different power positions of knowledge production. As a result, I have chosen a specific trajectory that intersects and challenges the static power positions and is able to trace the debates and the unfolding of the complex problem over time. As a long-time scholar in this area, and moreover one who has taken many different roads in both fields, I will describe this relationship from the perspective of my own scholarly biography.

However, my professional career has spanned several decades and surpassed the transient trends and fashions within this scholarly field. As such, it can only be depicted as an extensive narrative comprising multiple episodes, published in sequence across the double issue of the journal Studia Litteraria, devoted to forms of engagement in contemporary Southern and Western Slavic literatures. Part 3 discusses soft and hard variants of the complex “powers/knowledge”.

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Information: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2023, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, pp. 207-230

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The Disintegration of “Power/Knowledge”. Post-Socialist Studies as Decolonial Studies? A Personal Point of View. Part 3: Soft and Hard Variants of Post-Colonial Studies

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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Published at: 27.03.2024

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Aleksander Kiossev – Professor of the History of Modern Culture; his research interests include the cultural history of totalitarianism and transition, the theory and history of reading, and the visual culture of the city. He has published four books in Bulgarian, has been the director and editor of collective research, and his scholarly articles have been translated into almost all European languages. He was editor of the collective volume Post-Theory, Games and Discursive Resistance, and the collective volume Rules and Roles. Fluid Institutions, Hybrid Roles and Identities in East European Transformation Processes (1989–2005). Many of his essays are translated in English, German, French, Dutch, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Serbian and Macedonian languages. Since 2000 he has been a leader of several international research projects dedicated to the Balkan cultures, reading problems and autobiographies.

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Alexander, Kiossev. "The Disintegration of “Power/Knowledge”. Post-Socialist Studies as Decolonial Studies? A Personal Point of View. Part 3: Soft and Hard Variants of Post-Colonial Studies" Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. Mar 27, 2024. https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/the-disintegration-of-power-knowledge-post-socialist-studies-as-decolonial-studies-a-personal-point-of-view-part-3-soft-and-hard-variants-of-post-colonial-studies