spacesofidentity 4.3 is now on-line

[Wladimir Fischer]

Dear readers

The latest issue of *spacesofidentity*, featuring the third and last in our
2004 series on networks, is now online @ http://www.spacesofidentity.net.
(German-language versions of series contributions are/will be available on the
*kakanienrevisited* website: http://www.kakanien.ac.at/beitr under the
"NCS/NKW" link.)

In THE TEXTURE OF THE RETINA: INTERTWINING PATTERNS OF PERCEPTION IN THE
CITY, Katalin Teller locates different patterns of spatially organized
perception in Andrei Bely's *Petersburg* and Ingo Schulze's *33 Moments of
Happiness* and demonstrates how Petersburg is imagined in the older text as
a heterotopic space and in Schulze's more recent one as a rhizomatic city.

THE DOBRIVLIANY AFFAIR OF 1886 is the subject of Andriy Zayarnyuk's
contribution. In this case-study from the Galician countryside, Zayarnyuk
shows how A NODAL APPROACH TO CONSCIOUSNESS FORMATION calls into question
existing historical narratives about the Ukrainian national movement and
retraces the complexity of relationships between intellectuals and peasants.

Natalia Shostak takes us THROUGH NETWORKS AND ORDEAL NARRATIVES, OR MAKING
MEANING OF ONE'S DISPLACEMENT. In sharing with us a female experience of
RECENT LABOUR MIGRATION FROM WESTERN UKRAINE, Shostak underscores how the
meanings of a person's journey, both in terms of geography and personal
growth, are not only externalized through, but comprehended in narrative and
re-evaluated in subsequent conversations against these networks of
relationships and networks of meaning.

The volume's final contribution also deals with the theoretical challenges
of doing empirically based displacement ethnography. In RECONCEPTUALIZING
NETWORKS THROUGH GREEK-AMERICAN RETURN MIGRATION, Anastasia Christou
reflects on the processes of CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES, NEGOTIATING THE ETHNOS
AND MAPPING DIASPORAS in 40 life-stories of second-generation
Greek-Americans who made a conscious decision to relocate from the country
in which they were born to the country of their ancestral heritage.

Happy holiday reading!

The editors

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