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{"title":"“We” versus “others” in Estonian fiction: the question of national identity in the works of contemporary women writers","authors":"Elena Pavlova, Maili Vilson","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2271890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2271890","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article uses a postcolonial approach and the concept of Orientalization to uncover hierarchies in Estonian national identity construction. We examine the change in the articulation of the ‘other’ in the context of identity discourses of Estonians and Estonian Russian-speakers using literature by women authors in Estonia. We show how the interest of Estonian writers in the Russian community changed over time and then practically disappeared. We also demonstrate how, reflecting on their new post-imperial status, Estonian Russian-language literature eventually came to see Russians from Russia, rather than Estonians, as the key significant ‘other.’KEYWORDS: Estonianational identityRussian-speaking communitypostcolonial approachothernessOrientalizationliterature Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The issue concerns predominantly Estonia and Latvia, where the Russian-speaking minorities make up about 25% of the overall population.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Estonian Research Council, Grant No. PRG 1052.Notes on contributorsElena PavlovaElena Pavlova obtained her PhD degree from St. Petersburg State University in 2000 and MA in International Relations from the University Complutense, Madrid, Spain. Currently, she works as a Research Fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include theories of international relations, cultural studies, and postcolonial approach.Maili VilsonMaili Vilson is a PhD researcher at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her dissertation project focuses on the Europeanization of national foreign policy of EU member states, based on the example of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. She has served as an expert for several international think tanks, as well the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. Her previous publications have focused on the Eastern Partnership and on the Europeanization of national foreign policy.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136032698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tales of transformation: (re)injecting Latvia’s coastlands with temporality","authors":"Valdis Bērziņš","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2268078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2268078","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article explores the potential for a broader, more integrated treatment of the long-term development of Latvia’s coastal landscape, seeking avenues for conveying its dynamism. Various transformational processes are considered, with a particular focus on dune migration – formerly a major issue in Latvia but nowadays essentially resolved and forgotten. Relief features of the sandy, forested areas, as well as old pine trees, serve as cues to temporality in the present terrain, while historical and folkloric sources provide insights into past perceptions of the landscape and the experiences and imaginings of landscape change.KEYWORDS: Landscape perceptioncoastdunesforestarcheologyhistoryfolklore AcknowledgmentsThe author is most grateful to dendrochronologist Māris Zunde for making available his unpublished data on the Pūsēnkalns pines and his collection of digitized press articles, to archaeologist Egita Lūsēna for the photograph from her excavation at Piedāgi, and to the anonymous reviewers for a great many insightful comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Referring to the erstwhile duchy that encompassed the southwestern regions of present-day Latvia (Figure 1).2. The Courland mile was a distance measure comparable to the Scandinavian mile (approx. 10–11 km) – much longer than the present-day statute mile. Its precise length is not known (Zemzaris Citation1981); however, I can verify independently that Balanda lies 11 km from the present-day coast.3. Quotations are the author’s own translations.4. The Baltic Ice Lake stage, ca. 14000–9700 BCE, when the present Baltic Sea basin was occupied by an immense ice-dammed lake (Rosentau et al. Citation2017).5. The Soviet occupation period of 1945–1991 brought rapid and far-reaching ecological, land-use, and social changes in Latvia’s coastal belt (Nitavska and Zigmunde Citation2013), but these are not the focus of the present article, which instead offers a longue durée perspective.6. The soil conditions in the area behind the advancing dune are not described but were evidently suitable only for potatoes, the hardiest subsistence crop, which would likely have been fertilized with seaweed. There is an 1834 map of part of the Nīca estate that appears to show the described situation (Stūre Citation2009, Figure 5).7. As described in an e-mail to the author from Māris Zunde (Dendrochronological Laboratory, Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia) on 30 November 2021, he obtained core samples from the trunks of 10 living pines on Pūsēnkalns in 2020. The cores of the two oldest trees, growing on the dune summit, had 169 and 171 rings. Taking into account that the cores did not quite reach the center of the trunk, so that the very first growth rings are missing, and that some more years need to be added to take into account the time before the trees reached the height at which they were sampled, these two pines are estimated to ","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136063830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing bi- and multilingual occasional poetry in the seventeenth century <i>Academia Dorpatensis</i> – a rather acceptable practice at the time?","authors":"Kaidi Hõbejõgi","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2264280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2264280","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The early modern Academia Dorpatensis provides over 2,300 printed academic occasional poems within the period of 1632–1710. Among them there are as many as 58 occasional poems printed within the period of 1636–1705, which could be considered as bi- or even multilingual. In terms of sub-genres, wedding poems (epithalamia), funeral poems (epicedia), valedictory poems (propemptica), and gratulatory poems (gratulatoria) all comprise several examples in which poems are written in both classical and vernacular languages. The focal point of this article, however, are those poems in which either classical languages, classical language(s) and vernacular(s), or vernaculars appear together in the same poem. These bi- and multilingual poems will be analyzed in terms of linguistics, also providing the criteria and methodology for studying these poems.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"List of Books Received and Recent Publications","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2268429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2268429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135948261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: entangled languages in the poetry of the Baltic countries","authors":"Liina Lukas","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2265738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2265738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135900767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authoritarian laughter: political humor and Soviet dystopia in Lithuania <b>Authoritarian laughter: political humor and Soviet dystopia in Lithuania</b> , by Neringa Klumbytė, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2022. 306 pp., $125.00 (hbk)/$33.00 (pbk)/$22.00 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-5017-6669-5.","authors":"Anastasiya Astapova","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2265207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2265207","url":null,"abstract":"\"Authoritarian laughter: political humor and Soviet dystopia in Lithuania.\" Journal of Baltic Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic uses of nationalism and ethnic conflict: interest and identity in Russia and the post-Soviet space <b>Strategic uses of nationalism and ethnic conflict: interest and identity in Russia and the post-Soviet space</b> , by Pål Kolstø, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 294 pp., $110.00, ISBN 978-1-4744-9500-4 (hbk),978-1-4744-9503-5 (ebook).","authors":"Kaarel Piirimäe","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2265220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2265220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<b>Risk, emotions, and hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000–1300</b> <b>Risk, emotions, and hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000–1300</b> , by Wojtek Jezierski, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022. 356 pp., €50.00 ISBN 978-2-503-60039-0 (hbk), 978-2-503-60099-4 (ebook).","authors":"Mihkel Mäesalu","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2265219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2265219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135900228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lyrical poetry in funeral literature of the seventeenth century Grand Duchy of Lithuania: a story of one work","authors":"Živilė Nedzinskaite","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2264282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2264282","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn the late sixteenth – early seventeenth century, works of lyrical poetry appeared in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. One of the areas of literature that contained lyrical poetry was funeral literature, works mainly dedicated to the funerals of nobles or church elites. One of the more interesting works is Funebria (1603), written in Latin by Ioannes Kimbar. This work is dedicated to Isabella Bonarelli (1567–1602), the wife of Theodorus Lacki (1554–1610), an officer (rotmistrz) of the Grand Duchy. This article will focus on the lyrical poems that form the concluding part of Funebria, and will also explain how these lyrical poems stand out in the context of the Grand Duchy’s funeral literature of the time.KEYWORDS: Neo-Latin literaturelyrical poetryfunerary works in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, seventeenth centuryIoannes KimbarTheodorus LackiIsabella Bonarelli Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. See Narbutienė and Narbutas (Citation2002). There are 29 mourning works in the catalog (from 1545 to 1600), of which only four commemorate the death of women: No. 84, 324, 53, and 61. The situation was similar at the beginning of the seventeenth century: by 1610, 13 mourning works in Latin were printed in Lithuania, and only two of them (No. 476 and 141) were directly related with the honoring of women (see Narbutienė and Narbutas Citation1998).2. The publication has been digitized and is available here: http://elibrary.mab.lt/handle/1/282143. At that time, Novellara was a dwarf city-state belonging to a branch of the Gonzaga, one of the most powerful Italian aristocratic families.4. The family is derived from William, son of Richard, Duke of Normandy in the eleventh century. More reliable information comes from the late thirteenth – early fourteenth century. There are three main branches of the family, and Isabella’s father belonged to the youngest of them.5. Pietro was a courtier and official of Guidubaldo II, Duke of Urbino, but after his death he was accused of embezzlement and fell out of favor with the latter’s son, Francis Maria, and was forced to flee. Initially, he took refuge in Ferrara and from 1575 settled in Novellara, which belonged to Kamil Gonzaga, a member of the Novellara branch of the Gonzaga family. Pietro had four sons and three daughters. For more on Pietro’s life, see Barilli (Citation2010, 37-55).6. Compare with Threni in exequias Catharinae Radivilae de Teczyn (Citation1592), IV, 13–14: ‘Non praelustre genus, mores, non inclyta virtus/Ulterius poterunt te retinere mihi?’7. Compare with Threni in exequias Catharinae Radivilae de Teczyn (Citation1592), IV, 23–24: ‘Illa recursabit quoties, non ire tepentes/In lachrymas toties coget amore tui.’8. Compare with Threni in exequias Catharinae Radivilae de Teczyn (Citation1592), IV, 27–28: ‘Ora moves, signasque manu, dare verbo marito/Supremumque “vale” dicere forte paras.’Additional informationNotes on contributorsŽivilė Nedzin","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136341591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating chaos online: disinformation and subverted post-publics <b>Creating chaos online: disinformation and subverted post-publics</b> , by Asta Zelenkauskaitė, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2022. 318 pp., $80.00 (hbk)/$35.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-472-07552-2 (hbk), 978-0-472-05552-4 (pbk), 978-0-472-90290-3 (open access).","authors":"Mārtiņš Kaprāns","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2023.2265216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2265216","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the This publication was made with the funding of the Latvian Science Council, project “The archeology of independence: Towards a new conceptual perspective on national resistance in Latvia“, project no. VPPLETONIKA2021/2-0003 [VPPLETONIKA2021/2-0003].","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135246026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}