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Nature and National Identity After Communism - Globalizing the Ethnoscape (Paperback)
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Nature and National Identity After Communism - Globalizing the Ethnoscape (Paperback)
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the
intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national
identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based
on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse analysis,
it explores that country's post-Soviet responses to European
assistance and political pressure in nature management,
biodiversity conservation, and rural development. These responses
were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity
articulated as contrasting visions of the "ideal" rural landscape.
The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other
traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and
professionals with divided attitudes toward new European approaches
to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land
management practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras,
confront growing international pressures on a small country to
conform to current (Western) notions of environmental
responsibility--notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds
with local interests. While the case is that of Latvia, the
dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and speak
powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable
development, social constructions of nature, the sources of
nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and regional
integration on the traditional nation-state.
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