Keynote Speaker

Senior Researcher Karin Dean, School of Humanities, Tallinn University

“Borderlands as laboratories: testing our understanding of resistance and resilience.”

The presentation foregrounds borderlands as theoretical and empirical laboratories for testing and advancing the meanings and practices of the closely related concepts of resistance and resilience. More specifically, it calls for the inclusion of post-colonial border spaces to accommodate the plurality of forms and meanings of resistance and resilience, in order to avoid essentializing these notions or universalizing their causes and framings.