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Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads (Paperback)
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Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads (Paperback)
Series: Studies in European Sociology
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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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