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
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

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between post-colonial and post-socialist studies is extraordinarilycomplex. Post-colonialists might argue that it can be approached from different perspectivesas well as different power positions of knowledge production. As a result, I have chosen a spe-cific trajectory that intersects and challenges the static power positions and is able to trace thedebates and the unfolding of the complex problem over time. As a long-time scholar in thisarea, and moreover one who has taken many different roads in both fields, I will describe thisrelationship from the perspective of my own scholarly biography.However, my professional career has spanned several decades and surpassed the transienttrends and fashions within this scholarly field. As such, it can only be depicted as an exten-sive narrative comprising multiple episodes, published in sequence across the double issue ofthe journal Studia Litteraria, devoted to forms of engagement in contemporary Southern andWestern Slavic literatures. Part 3 discusses soft and hard variants of the complex “powers/knowledge”.

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