A: Post-imperalistic Nation Building Processes
B: Ethnic and Religious Diversity
C: Economic
(Des-)Integration
D: Environmental Change and Ecological Resources
E: Interactions and Interdependencies between Conflict and Cooperation
F: In:Security
The Datalab blog examines data practices and regional transformations in Eastern Europe, fostering dialogue between scholars and practitioners through case studies, visualizations, and interdisciplinary essays.
The DataLab provides training sessions and workshops for young and experienced researchers from the KonKoop network and the project’s partners
This new database presents comprehensive information on 51 accessible collections of protest event data
Conflict and Cooperation Database
The catalog provides a list of available datasets and sources covering the regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Caucasus.
Critical Cartography and Map Analysis
One of the main directions of the VisLab is to develop and provide a systematic and critical analysis of peace and conflict visualisations with the intention to articulate relevant concepts, explore features and develop its typologies
Drawing on the analysis of visualisations and best practices, the VisLab will explore and propose a variety of visualisation approaches related to the topic lines and case studies in the KonKoop project.
In this inventory, the VisLab collects diverse examples in which peace, conflict and their entanglements with other socio-spatial processes are visualised by various actors (e.g. scientists, media, or artists).
Natalia Otrishchenko is a sociologist and research fellow at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a PhD in sociological methodology from the Institute of Sociology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2015). From 2019 to 2022, she was an associate researcher at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. During the 2022–23 academic year, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, USA. Since March 2022, she has led the Ukrainian team of the ‘24/02/22, 5 am’ documentation initiative. Her research interests include qualitative methods, oral history, urban sociology, and the sociology of expertise.
Otrishchenko, N., Kharchenko, A., & Shevchenko, V. (2025). Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project: Intertwined Experiences and Methodologies. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 1-21.
Otrishchenko, N. (2024). Urban planners assessing professional autonomy during (and after) state socialism / Moderne Stadtgeschichte Bd. 55 Nr. 2: Die Stadt als Ort der Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus und seiner Verbrechen, 156–74.
Otrishchenko, N. (2023). The time that was taken from us: Temporal experiences after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 25–44. / In Wanner, C. (Ed.). Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine (1st ed.). Routledge.
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