Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
220
Utgivningsdatum
2014-01-10
Förlag
Routledge
Illustrationer
9 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
229 x 155 x 15 mm
Vikt
363 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781138019973

Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

av Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Bjrkman
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-01-10
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This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but strategically well located territories have historically found themselves in the middle of many power struggles between larger states, empires and other power-holders: the Teutonic Knights, Swedish kings, Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union. Today, they are once again forced to stand up to the Russian Federation. Biographical interviewing is a field focused on individuals, and on how those individuals choose to re-create and present their lived lives, make meaning of it through the narratives they tell. To interpret the biographical narrations of Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians, shaped by complex and controversial historical background, the authors use Pierre Bourdieus concept of social and cultural capitals, the principles of Erving Goffmans framing analysis and Alessandro Portellis distinction of private and public spheres, Anton Steens investigations of post-Socialist elites and Piotr Sztompkas theory of cultural trauma, etc. Given analyses of particular biographical narrations are supplemented by brief historical and sociological overviews, which allow the reader to better understand the contexts of lived lives, and the mental atmosphere in which the interviews were conducted.
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Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and head of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia. Li Bennich-Bjrkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: On Living through the Twentieth Century in the Baltic States 2. Locating Memory within History: Baltic Lives in their Context 3. Everyday Life, Power and Agency in Soviet Latvia 4. Before we Return Home: The Collective Strategies of Latvian World War II Refugees Adapting to Swedish Society 5. Working through Mature Socialism: Private and Public in the Estonians' Meaning-Making of the Soviet past 6. Tell me Your Story Russians in Independent Estonia 7. Discussing Ethnic Identities with Russian-Speakers in Rural Estonia and Latvia 8. Exit from Communism: Career Decisions of the Lithuanian Young Communist Functionaries 9. Catching up with the West? An Insiders Perspective from Lithuania 10. Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions the Stories of Toomas and Nikolai 11. Basic Human Values Dynamics and Biographical Findings

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