Academic Journal for New Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in the Baltic States

ATSLĒGVĀRDI / KEYWORDS is a interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal for historians and social scientists in the Baltic States. The goal of the journal is to involve young researchers from the Baltic States in international intellectual exchanges and to foster critical academic discourse in Humanities and Social Sciences. Such a discourse is expected to not only to draw upon contemporary academic theories, but to also critically engage with them, thus improving old or developing new analytical approaches.

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MULTIPLE PASTS, UNCERTAIN FUTURES: FOCUS ON LATVIA

Maria Golubeva, member of the Editorial Board

The second issue of Atslēgvārdi/ Keywords continues the theme of the narratives of the past and the future, this time with a focus on Latvia. The year 2009 has seen the commemoration of the ‘Baltic Way’ of 1989, the human chain that stretched from Tallinn all the way to Vilnius in commemoration of the devastating consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. The Pact itself is still a focal point of the Latvian culture of remembrance. This year has also seen continued efforts by political actors both in Latvia and elsewhere to make the interpretation of twentieth-century history more universal, sometimes by substituting simplified ideological or geopolitical explanations for critical analysis and meaningful discussion.

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ARTICLES

Latvia’s Soviet Story. Transitional Justice and the Politics of Commemoration
Katja Welzel, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg

Then and now: Comparing the Soviet and Post-Soviet experience in Latvian autobiographies.
Mārtiņš Kaprāns, University of Latvia, Department of Communication Studies

Breakdown of parliamentary deliberations on societal diversity in Latvia (Discussion paper)
Iveta Kažoka ,Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS, Latvia

At Sea in Vilnius
Dace Dzenovska, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Review of Vilnius: The City of Strangers. By Laimonas Briedis. Central European University Press. 2009.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE AUTHORS

RAKSTU KOPSAVILKUMI LATVIEŠU VALODĀ
(SUMMARY IN LATVIAN)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Atslēgvārdi / Keywords, a new interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal for historians and social scientists in the Baltic States, invites researchers to submit proposals for articles for the second issue of the journal.

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CONTACTS

To contact the Editorial Board, write to beroald@gmail.com.
Paper correspondence can be sent to Maria Golubeva, PROVIDUS, Alberta 13, Riga LV 1010