Title: Representations on the margins of Europe : politics and identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States /
Authors: Darieva, Tsypylma.; Kaschuba, Wolfgang
Publisher: Campus Verlag,
Year: 2007
Subjects: European Union Baltic States.; European Union Caucasus, South.; European Union Transcaucasia.; Political culture Baltic States.; Political culture Caucasus, South.; Nationalism Baltic States.; Nationalism Caucasus, South.; Political culture Transcaucasia.; Nationalism Transcaucasia.
Abstract: "Based on ethnographies and archival work, Representations on the Margins of Europe, offers new insight into shifts in the national identities, cultural geographies and symbolic boundaries in these states. This exploration of local responses to the new hegemony of Europe will appeal to anyone interested in anthropology, history and politics."--book jacket.
Contents: Introduction : politics and identities on the "margins" of New Europe / Tsypylma Darieva and Wolfgang Kaschuba -- Old and new Europe : representations, imaginations, stagings / Wolfgang Kaschuba -- "Windows" project ad marginem or a "divided history" of divided cities? : a case study of the Russian-Estonian 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 -- Estonia and its escape from the East : the relevance of the past in Russian-Estonian relations / Karsten Brüggemann -- Bargaining Armenian-ness : 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 history and cultural representation / Hrach Bayadyan -- Yet another Europe? : constructing and representing identities in Lithuania two years after EU accession / Asta Vonderau -- Histories of violence : national identity and public memory of occupation and terror in Estonia / David Feest -- Troubles and hopes : Armenian family, home and nation / Levon Abrahamian -- Celebrating identities in post-Soviet Georgia / Florian Mühlfried -- Barth, "Yeraz," and post-Soviet Azerbaijan : inventing a new sub-ethnic 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.