Book Launch for Dr Aimée Joyce "Spectral Borders: History, Neighborliness and Discord on the Polish-Belarusian Frontier"

The Centre for Global Postsocialisms, Southeastern, Central and East European Studies, and the Department of Social Anthropology invite you to celebrate the Launch of Dr Aimée Joyce's monograph, Spectral Borders.

Based on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding framework to understand how people live amidst the histories and reverberations of conflicts, Dr Joyce investigates the role that landscape, with its material presences and absences, plays in evoking and maintaining the border. The ethnography probes themes of ethnicity, religious practice, memory and space, investigating the border as a dynamic social process.