Shifting rural communities & mobilities: an interview with interdisciplinary researcher Raili Nugin

Raili Nugin (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn University. She defended her PhD in 2011 in sociology at Tallinn University, concentrating on identity & memory dynamics amongst the generation born in Estonia in the 1970s. In the last decade, her research interests have revolved around social / spatial inequalities and vulnerabilities, and include rural youth, rural communities, rural mobilities, migration and issues of collective memory. She gave a keynote speech at PECRL 2024 entitled “Mapping the intangible: Geopolitical dynamics in rural borderscapes”.