History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia write by Sigrid Rausing. This book was released on 2004. History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sigrid Rausing describes the changing world of the Estonian Swedes, and the way in which this minority identity was constructed in the various ideologies that have dominated the region since the early twentieth century. In particular she is concerned with the latest of these changes: thepost-Soviet attempt to 'restore' Swedish cultural identity. Rausing touches on a wide range of issues, debates, and insights: the relationship between ideology and form, nationalist and Soviet notions of ethnicity and traditional culture and historically-framed notions of an imagined normality.The ethnographic location for these discussions is a particular former collective farm, now subject to economic decline, the Estonian nation-building ideological project, and new relationships of dependency with Sweden. One of the author's central arguments is that these changes reflect a consciousattempt to 'reform habitus' so as to match that of the local image of the West, but that the location of ethnic culture and many of the operative concepts still reflect the tropes of the Soviet era.
Shadowlands
Shadowlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadowlands write by Meike Wulf. This book was released on 2016-01-01. Shadowlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis extending from the Great War to the present day. At its heart is the enduring anguish of World War Two and the subsequent half-century of Soviet rule. Shadowlands tells this story by foregrounding the experiences of the country’s intellectuals, who were instrumental in sustaining Estonian historical memory, but who until fairly recently could not openly grapple with their nation’s complex, difficult past.
Historical Culture, Conflicting Memories and Identities in Post-Soviet Estonia
Historical Culture, Conflicting Memories and Identities in Post-Soviet Estonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Culture, Conflicting Memories and Identities in Post-Soviet Estonia write by . This book was released on 2006. Historical Culture, Conflicting Memories and Identities in Post-Soviet Estonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia write by Francisco Martinez. This book was released on 2018-07-06. Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field. The anthropological study of all these places shows that national identity and historical representations can be constructed in relation to waste and disrepair too, also demonstrating how we can understand generational change in a material sense. Praise for Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia 'By adopting the tropes of ‘repair’ and ‘waste’, this book innovatively manages to link various material registers from architecture, intergenerational relations, affect and museums with ways of making the past present. Through a rigorous yet transdisciplinary method, Martínez brings together different scales and contexts that would often be segregated out. In this respect, the ethnography unfolds a deep and nuanced analysis, providing a useful comparative and insightful account of the processes of repair and waste making in all their material, social and ontological dimensions.' Victor Buchli, Professor of Material Culture at UCL 'This book comprises an endearingly transdisciplinary ethnography of postsocialist material culture and social change in Estonia. Martínez creatively draws on a number of critical and cultural theorists, together with additional research on memory and political studies scholarship and the classics of anthropology. Grappling concurrently with time and space, the book offers a delightfully thick description of the material effects generated by the accelerated post-Soviet transformation in Estonia, inquiring into the generational specificities in experiencing and relating to the postsocialist condition through the conceptual anchors of wasted legacies and repair. This book defies disciplinary boundaries and shows how an attention to material relations and affective infrastructures might reinvigorate political theory.' Maria Mälksoo, Senior Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies at the University of Kent
Memory and History in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories
Memory and History in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and History in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories write by Ene Kõresaar. This book was released on 2004. Memory and History in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
