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{"title":"Nuclear waste management in Lithuania and Sweden: responses to contingent historical and political circumstances","authors":"A. Stsiapanau","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2096655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2096655","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Baltic Sea region is the site of a considerable number of nuclear power stations. Although predominantly operational, several have been decommissioned and new ones are in the planning stage. The volume of nuclear waste in the region continues to increase, while the development of national nuclear waste programs differs in each country. This article investigates national framings of nuclear waste issues in Lithuania and Sweden in order to understand their articulation in response to particular historical and political circumstances. Following the technopolitical framework, this article engages with the argument that nuclear industry developments create both incentives and constraints for nuclear waste programs that foster various forms of legacies; historical, technological, or political. Firstly, this article sets out the relation between the nuclear industry and nuclear waste issues in each country. Secondly, it reveals how decommissioning policies in both countries streamed nuclear waste programs developed in dissimilar sociopolitical contexts. The final section presents empirical details about constraints and incentives that become visible through analysis of the impact of nuclear policy legacies and continuities on waste regimes, including regulatory, licensing and participation practices, research programs, and technology innovation.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"459 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41541367","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":"Aivars Karlovs, J. Paleckis, istorijos dramoje, A. Toots","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2097793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097793","url":null,"abstract":"Aivars Karlovs: nepakļaušanās un uzbūves spēks tēlniecībā, by Ruta Čaupova, Riga, Neputns, 2022, 128 pp., €25.00, ISBN 978-9934-601-37-8 Ameerika sajand: USA ja Eesti suhete sada aastat, edited by Kaarel Piirimäe and Mart Kuldkepp, Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2022, 312 pp., €19.00, ISBN 978-9949-03900-5 Antanas Smetona ir Justas Paleckis istorijos dramoje: prezidento vairuotojo užrašai, by Alfonsas Eidintas, Vilnius, Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras, 2022, 632 pp., €34.00, ISBN 978-5-420-01847-7 Aspazija. Rainis. Nams, by Gaida Jablovska, Riga, Madris, 2022, 264 pp., €16.00, ISBN 978-9984-31-221-7 Balancing between national unity and “multiculturalism”: national minorities in Lithuania and Finland 1918–1939, by Kari Alenius and Saulius Kaubrys, Leiden, Brill, 2022, 264 pp., €92.00, ISBN 978-3-506-79278-5 (hbk), 978-3-657-79278-8 (ebook) Defining Latvia: recent explorations in history, culture, and politics, edited by Michael Loader, Siobhán Hearne, and Matthew Kott, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022, 270 pp., €71.00, ISBN 978-963-386-445-6 Eesti ajalugu: kronoloogia, by Ain Mäesalu et al., Tallinn, Tänapäev, 2021, 531 pp., €30.00, ISBN 978-9916-17-166-0 Eesti kalaluule antoloogia, edited by Vladislav Koržets, Tallinn, Sõnavald, 2021, 728 pp., €40.00, ISBN 978-9949-9843-5-0 Eesti ohvitser Saksamaal ja Ungaris 1936–1940: Eesti ohvitser Euroopas, edited by Merike Jürjo, Tallinn, Nornberg, 2022, 176 pp., €23.00, ISBN 978-9916-9782-0-7 Euroopa Liidu mõjuka välispoliitika võimalikkusest, by Urmas Paet, Tallinn, Varrak, 2021, 288 pp., €27.00, ISBN 978-9985-3-5339-4 Finno-ugorskii martirolog zhertv gosudarstvennogo terrora v SSSR, Vol 7: Ėstontsy, Pt. 2: N–Ya, edited by Nikolai Antonov, Tallinn, Eesti Mälu Instituut, 2021, 467 pp., €22.00, ISBN 978-9949-9-6875-6 Holokaustas Lietuvos provincijoje 1941 metais, by Arūnas Bubnys, Vilnius, Margi raštai, 2021, 624 pp., €14.00, ISBN 978-9986-09-516-3 Jehudit: pasaulis galėtų būti toks gražus, by Aneta Anra, Vilnius, Odilė, 2021, 240 pp., €9.00, ISBN 978-609-8222-37-1 Kirjandus ja alkeemia, by Paavo Matsin, Viljandi, Lepp ja Nagel, 2021, 152 pp., €16.00, ISBN 978-9916-9719-0-1 Kultūra čia ir dabar: penkios esė, by Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius, Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2021, 192 pp., €10.00, ISBN 978-609-8231-29-8 Latvian Displaced Persons in WWII Germany, by Gunars Fricsons, Riga, Vesta LK, 2022, 176 pp., €27.00, ISBN 978-9934-511-94-3 Latvijas kultūras vesture, edited by Ojārs Spārītis, Riga, Jumava, 2021, 752 pp., €53.00, ISBN 978-9934-20-479-1 JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES 2022, VOL. 53, NO. 3, 491–493 https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097793","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"491 - 493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43226098","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":"Negotiating post-nuclear identities through tourism development in the ‘atomic town’ Visaginas","authors":"N. Mažeikienė, Eglė Gerulaitienė","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2092163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2092163","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers how, by applying participatory approaches and involving stakeholders in tourism development as a process of interpretation of the nuclear past, present, and post-nuclear future, variant forms of tourism (energy, nuclear, Soviet industrial heritage, recreational) promoting different narratives might stimulate change and negotiation around local identity in the ‘atomic’ town Visaginas in Lithuania. This paper presents the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology that was employed to elaborate on the virtual nuclear tourism route in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant region in an attempt to empower local communities through tourism development. The researchers have been collaborating with a variety of tourism stakeholders and endeavor to play a mediating role in complex negotiations around identity development through tourism. The authors pose the question as to how dissonance between practicing authentic identities and self-exoticization, community empowerment and commodification, participatory approach to heritagization and critical approach to negative legacy could be resolved.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"437 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49119409","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":"From post-socialist transition to the COVID-19 crisis: cycles, drivers, and perspectives of subordinate financialization in Latvia","authors":"Leonardo Pataccini","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2092881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2092881","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the specific features of financialization in peripheral and semi-peripheral contexts. To date, the majority of this research, however, consists of broad studies covering a number of countries, leaving a gap in the analysis of case studies, especially from east-central Europe. Therefore, the present article attempts to address this gap through an in-depth analysis of Latvia. The research shows that subordinate financialization is a changing and heterogeneous phenomenon that goes through uneven cycles of advance and retreat, which can lead to divergent dynamics between and within economies.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"197 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48904404","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":"Understanding the post-Soviet nuclear locality through language policy orientations","authors":"Ineta Dabašinskienė","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2086278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2086278","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focuses on a unique case of Visaginas, a Lithuanian post-Soviet nuclear industry site both geographically and mentally marked by the Soviet mono-industrial past, as reflected in its ethnic composition and linguistic practices. This article examines the concept of nuclear exceptionalism in the domain of language policy and patterns applied to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant case. It discusses exceptions in the state language legislation during the transition period from Soviet to independent Lithuania and nuclear to post-nuclear industry; moreover, it reflects on more recent developments in linguistic practices of locality.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"397 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48556363","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":"Fascist soft power propaganda in the Baltic states during the interwar period: the case of Latvia","authors":"Rosario Napolitano","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2067577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2067577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article, the result of intense archive work, retraces the influence of Italian cultural propaganda in Latvia starting from the de jure recognition in 1921 until the first Soviet occupation in 1940. The cultural relations between Italy and Latvia, could be depicted in two different waves: the first one, from 1921 until 1932, where Italy tries to establish the foundations of its cultural influence, not without a few difficulties, and the second one, from 1933 until 1940, when Fascist propaganda increased in Latvia; undoubtedly, this growth of cultural relations corresponded to Ulmanis’s takeover. Moreover, a more detailed propaganda strategy abroad was outlined, starting from 1932, with the Volta Conference and with the establishment of CAUR (Comitati d’Azione per l’Universalità di Roma/Action Committees for the Universality of Rome) and of the Ministry of Popular Culture in 1937.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"243 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44948752","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":"‘It is so bad to be Estonian:’ parody music videos and remediated sites of national cultural memory on Estonian public broadcasting","authors":"Liina-Ly Roos","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2067578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2067578","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines two Estonian parody music videos that were broadcast in an annual sketch program Tujurikkuja (Mood Spoiler) on Estonian Public Broadcasting. The videos target narratives of exceptionalism and racism in contemporary Estonia. I discuss the role that public broadcasting has in the formation of national cultural memory and argue that the mode of parody music videos has a complex potential to make visible the multi-imaged and multi-voiced discourses present in otherwise homogenous remediations of national cultural memory. Furthermore, the parody, satire, and carnival of the videos is extended as they are made available on YouTube.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"377 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48858038","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":"Threats and opportunities to Baltic socialist architecture in rural decline: the case of collective farm centers","authors":"Laura Ingerpuu","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2061025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2061025","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The administrative-cultural centers of collective farms, which are some of the best examples of the rural architecture of late socialism in the former Baltic Soviet republics, are still there in the Baltic countryside, but their preservation is currently in doubt. This study shows that the greatest threat to this rural built heritage in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is the shrinking and peripheralization of rural areas and small towns. Greater emphasis should be placed on strengthening the community, finding a new function, and on national protection in order to preserve collective farm centers and enhance their value.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"335 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44872515","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":"Slēptā dzīve: homoseksuāļa dienasgrāmata","authors":"Kārlis Vērdiņš","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2063488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2063488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"315 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111115","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":"Latvia in World War I: Latvian women and children in the Russian army (1914–1917)","authors":"Ē. Jēkabsons, Klāvs Zariņš","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2058571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2058571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on the experiences of Latvian women and children in Russian military service during World War I, seeing their involvement as a logical result of the societal developments and a rise in the level of patriotism. It discusses voluntary military service, nursing, and other activities closely connected to the army that women and children participated in right from the beginning of the war. This was the first time in history that women and children took part in warfare in such relatively large numbers.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"271 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43655747","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}