ESR 5

Project: Development perspectives of village communities in rural Estonia

ESR 5: Bianka Plüschke-Altof (Host: GEO)

Description: The project will focus on the question, if and how images of the periphery impede future development perspectives in rural Estonia. Hence, it will be analyzing the discursive dimension of peripheralization processes. In treating ‘periphery’ as an empty signifier it aims to deconstruct how peripheries are discursively made and how those facing moments of peripheralization actively relate to these ascriptions.