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Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads: Studies in European Sociology

Editat de Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2011
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 Bourdieu’s concept of social and cultural capitals, the principles of Erving Goffman’s framing analysis and Alessandro Portelli’s distinction of private and public spheres, Anton Steen’s investigations of post-Socialist elites and Piotr Sztompka’s 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415681100
ISBN-10: 0415681103
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 1 b/w image, 9 tables and 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Studies in European Sociology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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 Insider’s Perspective from Lithuania  10. Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions – the Stories of Toomas and Nikolai  11. Basic Human Values’ Dynamics and Biographical Findings

Descriere

Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, the small but strategically well located Baltic territories have historically found themselves in the middle of many power struggles between larger states, empires and other power-holders. This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the 20th century; occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy.