Representations on the Margins of Europe: Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States

ISBN-13: 9783593382418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 350 str.

Tsypylma Darieva; Wolfgang Kaschuba

Opis

Since the first Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. How do citizens in the Baltic and South Caucasian statescope with EU expansion and the feeling of existing simultaneously inside and outside Europe? Based on ethnographies and archival work, "Representations on the Margins of Europe" offers new insights into shifts in the national identity, cultural geography, and symbolic boundaries. This exploration of local responses to Europe s new hegemony will appeal to anyone interested in anthropology, history, and politics."

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Politics and Identities on the "Margins"
of New Europe
Tsypylma Darieva and Wolfgang Kaschuba

Old and New Europe: Representations, Imaginations, Stagings
Wolfgang Kaschuba

Icons

"Windows" Project Ad Marginem or a "Divided History"
of Divided Cities? A Case Study of the RussianEstonian
Borderland
Olga Brednikova

From Silenced to Voiced: Changing Politics of Memory
of Loss in Armenia
Tsypylma Darieva

Iconography of Historical Memory and Armenian National
Identity at the End of the 1980s
Harutyun Marutyan

Neoliberal Imaginations, Subject Formation, and
Other National Things in Latvia, the Land that Sings
Dace Dzenovska

Narratives

Estonia and its Escape from the East: The Relevance of
the Past in RussianEstonian
Relations
Karsten Brüggemann

Bargaining Armenianness: National Politics of Identity
in the Soviet Union after 1945
Maike Lehmann

Armenian Statehood and the Problems of European
Integration as Reflected in School Education
Artur Mkrtychian

Soviet Armenian Identity and Cultural Representation
Hrach Bayadyan

Yet Another Europe? Constructing and Representing Identities
in Lithuania Two Years after the EU Accession
Asta Vonderau

Histories of Violence: National Identity and Public
Memory of Occupation and Terror in Estonia
David Feest

Rites

Troubles and Hopes - Armenian Family, Home and Nation
Levon Abrahamian

Celebrating Identities in PostSoviet
Georgia
Florian Mühlfried

Barth, "Yeraz", and PostSoviet Azerbaijan: Inventing
a New SubEthnic Identity
Bahodir Sidikov

The Staging of Politics and the "Folklorization" of
Political Discourse
Ashot Voskanian

Afterword: Representations of the National on the
Fringes of Europe
Jörg Baberowski

Notes on the Contributors

Index of Geographical and Political Names
List of Figures

O autorze

Tsypylma Darieva ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie an der Humboldt Universität Berlin. Wolfgang Kaschuba ist dort Professor.