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Please Download Issue 1 2013 Here A quarterly scholarly journal and news magazine. April 2013. Vol. VI:1. 1 From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) The economic Södertörn University, Stockholm projects of Linnaeus The return of the Nordic model BALTIC Urban spaces: comparing Riga, Belgrade, Prague & Tirana WORLDSbalticworlds.com Modern archeology in the Baltic states Childhood in a country that no longer exists History is present in Romania T he role of culture in the Russian drama also in this issue Illustration: Ragni Svensson YURI LOTMAn’S SEMIOTICS / GRASS’S FLOUNDER / TOURISM IN ALBANIA / POVERTY IN POLAND / IKEA IN GERMAN / SOVIET DESIGN news short takes Welcome aboard, Joakim Ekman! “On Identity – No Identity” JOAKIM EKMAN, Profes- I am certainly no stranger to editorial work, SINCE THE END OF the East-West conflict, a regional “Baltic sor of political science at having served for a number of years now Sea Identity” has been claimed by a variety of people. At CBEES, has now taken as the Swedish editor for the Scandinavian first glance, the case for a (common) regional identity is not on the position known in journal Nordisk Østforum (NUPI, Oslo). I obvious, since the history of the Baltic Sea region (BSR) is Swedish as ansvarig utgi- am constantly involved in conventional one of cooperation and conflict, notes Bernd Henningsen vare, which is usually trans- editorial tasks such as proofreading and (see also page 44 in this issue) in a detailed paper “On lated with the somewhat assigning peer reviewers. Since 2012, I Identity – No Identity: An Essay on the Constructions, Pos- inelegant, though correct have also been part of the editorial board of sibilities and Necessities for Understanding a European term “legally responsible the Swedish journal Utbildning & Demokrati Macro Region, The Baltic Sea”. publisher”. The position is [Education and democracy] (Örebro He asks: “How can a region like the Baltic Sea region unique to Sweden and a University), which focuses on education have an ‘identity’ or be regarded as homogeneous, when few other countries. Joakim Ekman. science, civic education, and democracy; nine different languages (at least!) are spoken within it, it and as of April this year, I am a member of contains more than nine ethnici ties, uses eight different What will you the board of Södertörn University’s Publications Committee.” currencies, practices three different forms of Christianity – do in your Joakim Ekman’s research interests include democratization, public and where Judaism was once a powerful force – and, last capacity as Baltic opinion, and political participation. He has recently put the finishing but not least, it fosters different political cultures?“ Worlds’ legally touches on a book that analyzes the development of political party sys- Could it be that a BSR identity is rooted in contradictory responsible tems in nineteen countries in Central and Eastern Europe, and in particular experiences? Bernd Henningsen asks. publisher? highlights party–voter alignments and political cleavages. The third edition “What commonalities exist in this diversity? Are there “Basically, I will make sure of his Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe was published in shared values? The starting point for these reflections that the contents of each 2013 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar). “The book continues to expand as we must be the concept of identity itself – an invention of Ger- issue of Baltic Worlds have more countries, more elections, and a longer history to monitor.” man idealistic philosophy from the turn of the 19th century. do not contravene the In 2013, Joakim Ekman received funding from the Foundation for Baltic Is it possible to apply this concept to a nation or a region? Freedom of the Press Act. and East European Studies for the project “European Values under At- “Two developments have had a decisive impact on In Sweden, the law requires tack? Democracy, Disaffection and Minority Rights in the Baltic States”. ≈ European collective identities in the past two decades: that for all major periodicals the end of the Cold War and the accelerated process of a physical person fulfill globalization. In the wake of the dissolution of the Eastern the function of a legally Bloc, renewed nationalism swept over Central and Eastern responsible publisher. It is Europe. That dissolution also triggered the search for thus a formal position, not new and overarching identities that would distance these an editorial one. That said, parts of Europe from their recent Soviet-dominated past. Simultaneously, the process of globalization reduced the ability of nation-states to govern and thus increased the likelihood that they would identify benefits from larger- scale multilateral and transnational units – for example, the Changes on Agreement Baltic Sea region.” the editorial board with EBSCO HENNINGSEN ALSO ARgues that the Baltic Sea region identity is almost identical to the concept of Hansa, a league that had the city of Lübeck as its center (Lübeck SINCE jaNuaRY 2013 Anders BALTIC WORLDS and was founded in the High Middle Ages). “The influence of Björnsson is no longer the journal’s one of the largest schol- the Hanseatic League was so enormous, and the memory editor-in-chief. Björnsson will now arly databases, EBSCO, of its successes so overwhelming, that the French historian devote himself full-time to writing entered In January 2013, of mental history, Fernand Braudel, in his voluminous inves- books. However, he returns to Baltic into an agreement under tigation of the Mediterranean world, favorably compared Worlds as a contributor, starting with which all peer-reviewed the Baltic Sea region with southern Europe, describing it this issue. articles will be searchable as: ‘the Mediterranean of the North’. But he did not point Anders Björnsson has an honorary doctorate from in EBSCO’s databases and out the fundamental difference: The Mediterranean Sea is the faculty of humanities at Gothenburg University, and thus available in 90 percent the cradle of Western civilization and gave birth to the Ro- is the author of several books. In 2012 he published of the world’s research man Empire. Compared to these achievements, our region Organisationen som skapade en profession: nedslag i libraries. Baltic Worlds’ is a poor one.” ≈ FSA:s och de svenska arbetsterapeuternas historia [The editorial board is pleased organization that created a profession – the impact of to be able to enhance the Note: Read the full paper on the website of the Baltic organization on the history of the FSA and of Swedish opportunities for the work Development Forum: http://www.bdforum.org/cmsystem/ occupational therapists]. The year before, in 2011, he of the journal’s authors to wp-content/uploads/BDF_SoRR_Identity_2011_08.pdf edited a reader of Swedish economic history, Jord- be cited. ≈ päron [Spuds]. Recently he released a Swedish version of Joseph Roth’s short stories, Kejsarbysten och andra noveller [The Bust of the Emperor and other short stories].≈ Theme Issue 3–4: Contemporary Challenges in Food and Agriculture. Separate section with peer-reviewed articles. Sponsored by the Foundation BALTIC for Baltic and East European Studies editor’s column 3 “On Identity – No Identity” WORLDSbalticworlds.com The past leaves many traces, with many colophon contents possible interpretations Editor-in-chief his issue is permeated by nostalgia — for an Ninna Mörner age that does not exist, the artifacts and art Language editor that are no longer produced. In one article Brian Manning Delaney we search for the past quite concretely: Balts Publisher often buried possessions in the earth when they were Joakim Ekman banished into exile by the Soviets. Now treasures are Editorial Advisory Board being dug up — often relatively simple objects. Sari Autio–Sarasmo, Aleksanteri History is both a private matter and a collective cre- Institute, Helsinki, Li Bennich-Björkman, ation, says Romanian curator Lila Passima. Uppsala University, Joakim Ekman, History is contemporary politics, says Vladimir Tis- CBEES, Monica Hammer, CBEES, maneanu who, until May 2012, chaired the Scientific Lars Johannsen, University of Aarhus, Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Com- Ann-Cathrine Jungar, CBEES, Thomas munist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile Lundén, Chair, CBEES, Jens E. Olesen, reports (IICCMER). University of Greifswald, Barbara Modern archeology. Hidden treasures in the Baltic states. 4 Törnquist-Plewa, Lund University Albania. Greed and need behind sell-out of castles. 7 IN THIS issue WE INCLUDE a special cluster of articles Editorial contributors in this issue Everyday poverty in EU. The Polish face. 18 about cultural life in the nascent Soviet state. Rus- Anders Björnsson, Henriette Cederlöf, Museum of Design opens in Moscow. 28 sian futurists were hired to decorate the streets and David Gaunt, Peter Johnson, Rafał squares for the introduction of the First of May cel- Klimkiewicz, Axel Kronholm, Magnus interviews ebrations. The Bolsheviks wanted to find a new form Ljunggren, Carl Marklund, Påhl Ruin, Curator Lila Passima. On childhood as a culture field. 8 for communicating with the people. It didn’t exactly Peter Stadius Vladimir Tismaneanu. On the political importance of history and turn out as intended. Translators historiography. 10 During the 19th and 20th centuries, Russian writers Proper English, Clare Barnes, Södertörn Robert Chandler. On translating the freedom of Russian word and poets sought to depict the melancholy they felt University order. 37 in the face of human suffering. Here, Khlebnikov and Proofreading, copy-editing Vasily Grossman dwell on the encounter with famine Tony Crawford, Semantix lecture and barbarism. Design Linneaus and his apostles meet the economic man. 14 Professor Magnus Ljunggren generously shares his Sara Bergfors, Lena Fredriksson, observations on writers, philosophers, and poets dur- Lars Rodvaldr, Oktavilla essays ing the turbulent time in Russia and the Soviet Union. Illustrators Comparing urban space and development in Riga, Prague, Belgrade His notes get me digging through my own boxes. Katrin Stenmark, Karin Sunvisson, and Tirana.
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