anna_ivanova

Anna Ivanova is a doctoral researcher at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Her current research focuses on how Ukrainian politics of urban space decommunization interacts with social cleavages and antagonisms. Anna’s research interests include analysis of discourse, power and hegemony, postcolonial and critical theories, as well as memory studies and urban studies. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). Dissertation working title: Decommunization in the Urban Space of Ukraine: Discourses, Practices and Objects