List of figures
List of contributors

Anti-Atlas: an introduction
Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell and Michal Murawski

Part I: Continents and terrains

1 Balkan balkanologies (and their shifting cartographies)
Diana Mishkova

2 (Global) choas
Joanna Kusiak

3 The children’s republic
Diana Georgescu

4 The countryside: a matter of ruling class
Alexandra Urdea

5 Digital Eastern Europe?
Maciej Maryl

6 Dreamland (and its queer map)
Carna Brkovic

7 The early modern Republic of Letters
Wendy Bracewell

8 Vadim Tsymburskii’s Great Limitrophe
Dimitrii Sidorov

9 Greater Europe: a travel guide
Nóra Veszprémi

10 Low earth orbit: a speculative ethnographer’s guide
Victor Buchli

11 Flying a new flag: how Moscow hippies created a world without time and a land without borders
Juliane Fürst

12 Nation-states of mind: radical geopolitical imagination
Ksenya Gurshtein

13 Orasul viitorului: beyond the siliconisation of postsocialist cluj
Erin McElroy

14 Planet ppparadise: decondensing the social in the condition of wild capitalism
Michal Murawski

15 Peripheristan
Francisco Martinez

16 The plus one dimension
Katalin Cseh-Varga

17 The Red Adriatic: the global East in Trieste
Chiara Bonfiglioli

18 The Second World: building (for) emancipatory futures
Daria Bocharnikova

19 Sharovarshchyna: sonic contestations of Ukrainian wildness
Maria Sonevytsky

20 Extracting the future: the socialist Anthropocene through artists’ eyes
Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes

21 The stalked zone: late capitalist logics and state socialist models
Jonathan Bach

22 Supercontinents and superdeep boreholes: area studies in three dimensions
Douglas Rogers

23 When Yugoslavia was the Wild West
Natalie Koch

24 Zwischeneuropa: mapmaking as image-making
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

Part II: Wandering critics

25 The accidental transnationalist: an autobiographical manifesto Choi Chatterjee

26 Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey
Catherine Baker

27 Arthur Griffith and Hubert Butler: the rhetoric and inspection of historical parallels between Ireland and Central Europe
Aidan O’Malley

28 Krystyna Gryczelowska maps a moving Poland
Eliza Rose

29 The engineer as indispensable critic
Jelena Prokopljevic

30 Il’f and Petrov
Lisa Kirschenbaum

31 Komunistki: Polish communist women
Agnieszka Mrozik

32 Kosmopolitka: an orphaned subject between home and abroad Karolina Follis

33 The Kraeved(ka): a portrait of Soviet citizen scientist
Sofia Gavrilova

34 The ‘last heroes’ of perestroika (and their legacy in metamodernist Russia) Maria Engström

35 Mediator sanitar
Charlotte Kühlbrandt and Mihai Surdu

36 The migration broker
Philippa Hetherington

37 Olga Brookman’s everyday eyes: the Russian mail-order bride as ethnographer
Emily Curtin

38 Ovid in Tomis and the unreal space of literature
Tim Beasley-Murray

39 Polish architects in the world socialist system
Lukasz Stanek

40 Projectarians
Kuba Szreder

41 Raja: the not-quite critical subject of Sarajevo irony
Stef Jansen and Nebojša-Valha

42 Sherlock Holmes and his doppelganger: for an anti-atlas of world literature
Antonija Primorac

43 Cartographies of Soviet childhood
Nataliya Tchermalykh

44 TINA and Natasha: mapping exploitation after history’s end Jennifer Suchland

45 Yardsticks and shillelaghs: Croatian migrants to Ireland
Rory Archer

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