Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2005

Department

Anthropology

Abstract

Through walking streets and talking history, the members of the My Odessa club sense their city as place. History is encountered in buildings, ruins, monuments, and stories as both a diffuse feeling and a dialogic process. The walkers’ practice of exploring nooks and crannies of the city and speaking with local residents is informed by a “large family” form of sociality, and a notion of Odessa as courtyard where space is conceived as commercial. In walking the city, participants subvert and recreate aspects of Soviet and post-Soviet urban space and generate a sense of their city as distinct from a national space.

Comments

This article was originally published in Ethnology, 44(3): 13-33. © 2005 University of Pittsburgh

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