ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects back on our ten-year experience in collaboratively working towards developing new directions in research on imperialism and coloniality, race, and (post)socialism. At the start of our collaboration, in 2010, postsocialism was not a term popularly used in US academy. Rather than just demonstrating how postcolonial theory can or cannot be applied to postsocialist contexts, or expanding the range of postcolonial theory to include Central and Eastern Europe, as existing works attempted to do, we strove to ask how serious conversations between fields that may never be seen as relevant to each other can introduce entirely new sets of questions about geopolitics and, as Madina Tlostanova puts it, corpopolitics. Staged as a conversation, the chapter reflects on the possibilities of a feminist collaborative methodology as a part of a novel sort of field building and conceptual transformation of existing theoretical landscapes.
