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Literary history and popular enlightenment in Latvian culture
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ISBN: 1443892556 9781443892551 1443855170 9781443855174 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,


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Russian speakers in post-Soviet Latvia : discursive identity strategies
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ISBN: 1474418538 0748697446 9780748697441 9781474418539 9780748697434 0748697438 9781474409995 1474409997 Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book provides a fresh methodological approach to the study of discourses and discursive strategies, especially within post-Soviet contexts. What makes this project distinctive from a number of other studies of discourse is that it is concerned with the temporally contingent nature of discourses. As such, it outlines a coherent methodology to study the evolution of discourses over time, rather than a single de-contextualised and static time period.


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School of Europeanness : tolerance and other lessons in political liberalism in Latvia
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ISBN: 1501716832 1501716867 9781501716850 1501716859 9781501716867 9781501716836 9781501716836 9781501711152 1501711156 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press,

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In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe's political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics.Using Latvia as a representative case, School of Europeanness is a historical ethnography of the tolerance work undertaken in that country as part of postsocialist democratization efforts. Dzenovska contends that the collapse of socialism and the resurgence of Latvian nationalism gave this Europe-wide logic new life, simultaneously reproducing and challenging it. Her work makes explicit what is only implied in the 1977 Kraftwerk song, "Europe Endless": hierarchies prevail in European public and political life even as tolerance is touted by politicians and pundits as one of Europe's chief virtues.School of Europeanness shows how post-Cold War liberalization projects in Latvia contributed to the current crisis of political liberalism in Europe, providing deep ethnographic analysis of the power relations in Latvia and the rest of Europe, and identifying the tension between exclusive polities and inclusive values as foundational of Europe's political landscape.


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Zkušenosti a vztahy
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ISBN: 9788073086152 8073086158 9788073084752 8073084759 Year: 2013 Publisher: Praha

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Doing business with Latvia
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ISBN: 1905050615 9781905050611 9786610251308 1280251301 Year: 2005 Publisher: London GMB Pub.

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Originally published in the pre-EU-accession period, this E-Book edition of Doing Business with Latvia has been updated to take account of the post-accession changes to the legal and fiscal environment. It remains a definitive appraisal of the economic system and investment climate, including an examination of the legal structure and business regulation, information on the financial sector and unique best practice on all aspects of trading with and investing in Latvia.


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The Emigrant Communities of Latvia : National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics
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ISBN: 3030120929 3030120910 9783030120917 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham Springer Nature

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This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration in their home country. In the context of European migration, the book describes the case of Latvia, which is interesting due to the multiple waves of excessive emigration, continuously high migration potential among European Union member states, and diverse migrant characteristics. It provides a fascinating insight into the social and psychological aspects linked to migration in a comparative context. The data in this volume is rich in providing individual level perspectives of contemporary Latvian migrants by addressing issues such as emigrants’ economic, social and cultural inclusion in the host country, ties with the home country and culture, interaction with public authorities both in the host and home country, political views, and perspectives on the permanent settlement in migration or return. Through topics such as assimilation of children, relationships between emigrants representing different emigration waves, the complex identities and attachments of minority emigrants, and the role of culture and media in identity formation and presentation, this book addresses topics that any contemporary emigrant community is faced with.

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Migration. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Psychology, Comparative. --- Political science. --- Diaspora. --- Comparative Psychology. --- Sociology, general. --- Political Science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Behavior, Comparative --- Comparative behavior --- Comparative psychology --- Ethology, Comparative --- Intelligence of animals --- Zoology --- Animal behavior --- Animal intelligence --- Animal psychology --- Human behavior --- Instinct --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Latvians --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Letts --- Balts (Indo-European people) --- Ethnology --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Latvia --- L.P.S.R. --- Läti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik --- Latvian S.S.R. --- Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic --- Latvian SSR --- Latvii︠a︡ --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Sovetskai︠a︡ Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ SSR --- Latvija --- Latvijas Padomju Socialistiska Republika --- Latvijas PSR --- Latvijas Republika --- Laṭviyah --- Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika --- Leṭland --- Letònia --- Lettland --- Lettonie --- Łotwa --- LPSR --- Repubblica Socialista Sovietica della Lettonia --- Republic of Latvia --- Латвия --- Lifli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) --- Ostland --- Emigration and immigration --- Psychology, Comparative --- Sociology --- Political science


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Politics of waiting : workfare, post-soviet austerity and the ethics of freedom
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ISBN: 1526126265 9781526126269 9781526126276 1526126273 1526126257 9781526126252 Year: 2019 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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"This book is an ethnography of the politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, Ozolina's book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logic of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia. This site not only grants the author unique access to observing everyday implementation of social assistance programmes that use acceleration and waiting as forms of control, but also serves as a vantage point from which to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book thus contributes to current debates across sociology and anthropology around the increasingly coercive forms of social control, by examining ethnographic forms of statecraft that have emerged over several decades of neoliberalism. The ethnographic perspective reveals how time shapes a nation's identity, as well as one's sense of self, in culturally specific ways. The book traces how both the Soviet past, with its narratives of building communism at an accelerated speed while waiting patiently for a better future, as well as the post-Soviet nationalist narratives of waiting as a sacrifice for freedom, come to play a role in this particular case of the politics of waiting. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in contemporary forms of state power, temporal politics, and political subjectivity formation, as well as comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare reforms." -- Back cover. This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, this book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logics of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia, serving as a vantage point from which to observe how welfare programmes use acceleration and waiting as forms of control as well as to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book is therefore a timely sociological critique of the forms of statecraft that have emerged in the aftermath of neoliberalism. The key audiences for this book are students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, and social and political theory, as well as policymakers and activists with an interest in welfare reforms and comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare designs.

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Unemployment. --- Joblessness --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Full employment policies --- Labor supply --- Manpower policy --- Underemployment --- Unemployment --- Public welfare --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- E-books --- Polittics. --- Public welfare. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics. --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography. --- Political aspects. --- Latvia. --- Lifli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) --- Ostland --- L.P.S.R. --- Läti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik --- Latvian S.S.R. --- Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic --- Latvian SSR --- Latvii︠a︡ --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Sovetskai︠a︡ Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ SSR --- Latvija --- Latvijas Padomju Socialistiska Republika --- Latvijas PSR --- Latvijas Republika --- Laṭviyah --- Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika --- Leṭland --- Letònia --- Lettland --- Lettonie --- Łotwa --- LPSR --- Repubblica Socialista Sovietica della Lettonia --- Republic of Latvia --- Латвия --- Latvii͡ --- Latviĭskai͡a Respublika --- Latviĭskai͡a Sovetskai͡a Sot͡sialisticheskai͡a Respublika --- Latviĭskai͡a SSR --- Russia (Federation) --- Europe --- Polittics --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics --- Austerity. --- Ethics. --- Ethnography. --- Post-Soviet. --- Waiting. --- Workfare.

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