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Atmosphere and inspiration in the Soviet Gulag

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dc.contributor.authorStepnisky, Jeffrey
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-18T19:30:14Z
dc.date.available2025-03-18T19:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn this essay I use Peter Sloterdijk's and Gernot Böhme's theories of atmosphere to describe the production of atmospheres in the Soviet Gulag. I rely on eight memoirs written by Gulag prisoners. I develop the idea that atmospheres are formed out of co-inspirational practices between persons and the objects in their world. The Gulag is an extreme social situation in which these inspirational practices are manipulated and/or destroyed. Nevertheless, I claim that prisoners find opportunities to develop atmospheres that shelter, protect, and uplift them. I describe the practices through which these atmospheres are created and emphasize their relationship to an inspirational approach to social psychological theories of selfhood and social life.
dc.description.urihttps://macewan.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MACEWAN_INST/d1nmsu/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1016_j_emospa_2023_100983
dc.identifier.citationStepnisky, J. (2023). Atmosphere and inspiration in the Soviet Gulag. Emotion, Space, and Society, 49, 100983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100983
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100983
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3843
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectatmosphere
dc.subjectinspiration
dc.subjectGulag
dc.subjectsocial psychology
dc.subjectself
dc.subjectmemoirs
dc.subjectSloterdijk
dc.subjectBöhme
dc.titleAtmosphere and inspiration in the Soviet Gulagen
dc.typeArticle

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