Entangled Easts: articulating migrant grammars and border temporalities across Eastern Europe and East Asia

With Diana Damian Martin

If no one can quite agree on where the East begins or ends, one thing seems certain: its very indeterminacy is central to its Eastness. From the demise of the Second World as a geopolitical category to attempts to stitch together dialogues between postsocialist and postcolonial conjunctures, from debates about the relative Westness of parts of East Asia and to the multiple legacies of imperialism that endure across “the entire stretch of land from the former GDR to Japan”, ‘East’ has long been approached as both a peripheralised place and a space of ever-movable in-betweenness.