BALTIC WORLDSBALTIC A scholarly journal and news magazine. May 2017. Vol. X:1–2. From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. Hungarian researchers on the CEU May Vol. 2017. X:1–2 BALTIC WORLDSbalticworlds.com Special section: Bakhtinian Theory The postcolonial & postsocialist perspective Sweden’s The Sami –telling their own story indigenous people, the Sami: Special section: Special Telling their Bakhtian theory Bakhtian own story also in this issue Illustration: Tomas Colbengtson MACEDONIAN ART / e-ESTONIA / BORDERING POMERANIA / FATHERHOOD IN RUSSIA / BELARUS PROTESTS Sponsored by the Foundation BALTIC for Baltic and East European Studies contents 3 colophon WORLDSbalticworlds.com Baltic Worlds is published by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, Sweden. Editor-in-chief editorial in this issue Ninna Mörner Publisher feature story Joakim Ekman 4 Breaking the silence. The Sami and 110 Muslims in the Soviet Scholarly advisory council The culture of opposites Sweden’s colonial past. Påhl Ruin Petrograd-Leningrad. Thomas Andrén, Södertörn Portraits on varying fates. University; Sari Autio-Sarasmo, peer-reviewed articles n this issue, we devote a special section to not walls. It is precisely that dia- Renat Bekkin Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki; 11 Resistance in Macedonia. Subversiveness Bakhtinian theory. A culture in which ten- logue that Central European Uni- Sofie Bedford, UCRS, Uppsala in the visual arts. Tihomir Topuzovski reviews sions between opposites can be dissolved versity (CEU) has in fact been able University; Michael Gentile, 32 The story of e-Estonia. The discourses 114 An innovative guidebook to by laughter, comedy, and the staging of to create — the very CEU that now Helsinki University; Markus Huss behind the idea. Rene Mäe St. Petersburg. Iroles, reversing “we” and “them” in order to has been a target of the Hungarian (chair), Södertörn University; Yulia Gradskova create chaos, and finally resulting in new order: government’s attempt to silence essays Katarina Leppänen, CERGU, 116 Serfdom in Russia 150 years this is a simple description of the theories of and shut down free speech, free 20 Fatherhood in Soviet Russia. Emotions University of Gothenburg; later. Maxim Grigoriev the Russian twentieth-century thinker Michael thought, and transnational aca- and role models. Helene Carlbäck Thomas Lundén, CBEES; 117 Imagining the Åland Islands. Bakhtin concerning the importance of a dia- demic exchange. Perhaps it is fear 100 Borders on the move. Change and conflict Kazimierz Musiał, University Sweden is Francesco Zavatti logue in which the relation between opposing that should be combated the most, in Pomerania. Thomas Lundén of Gdańsk; Barbara Törnquist- 120 The Belarusian Maidan. poles creates new meaning, using such means in this upside-down world, in order stepping out of Plewa, Centre for European #IstandwithCEU Sofie Bedford as laughter. In Per-Arne Bodin’s article on the to find balance and negotiate a cul- the colonial closet Studies, Lund University 30 A common dream. Revoked solidarity. 123 Russian literature since 1991. witch trials in Northern Sweden during the ture strong enough to encompass Art, theater, film, and Corresponding members Andrea Petö Tora Lane 1600s, it is shown that the culture of opposites oppositions? music — we use them Aija Lulle, University of Latvia; 31 Power concentration cannot remain. more and more to increase the Michael North, Ernst Moritz can also result in violence: ridicule can trans- Evoked selfcritic. Péter Balogh conference report form to brutality. Viktoriya Sukovata in her turn MEANWHILE, Baltic Worlds will con- knowledge of our Sami culture, 126 Geopolitical themes in Arndt University Greifswald; investigates the Ukrainian TV comedies. Carni- tinue to contribute to the publica- “of our history, of our pain. commentaries Post-Soviet science fiction Andrzei Nowak, Jagiellonian valization is a way to negotiate, she argues. It is tion of multidisciplinary research Page 4 91 Sharing food. Lessons learned from literature. Kåre Johan Mjør University, Kraków; Andrea Petö, a tool to dissolve the differences between the within and about our expanded, Eastern Europe. Natalya Yakusheva Central European University, misc. actors of the shows and the political elite. transborder, post-1989 Europe. 93 Protests in Belarus. Minsk fear to go Kiev. Budapest; Jens E. Olesen, 90 Up-coming workshop on It strikes me that Bakhtinian theory can In this rich double issue, we of- Ulyana Kaposhka & Matthew Kott Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Bakhtin. be applied right here and now, in this time of fer a cavalcade of topics: the fight 96 Anti-nuclear movements. A reflection Greifswald; Olga Schihalejev, 125 Election Coverage. increasing polarization, when antidemocratic against repression by the Nordic on the time aspect. Ekaterina Tarasova Tartu University. Turkmenistan & Macedonia forces are dividing Europe and the values that Sami indigenous population; mod- 98 Disinformation from Kremlin. Copyediting/proofreading have been borne by Europe has borne since the els for sustainable food production; Perspectives on the scale. Maksym Kyiak Tony Crawford, Semantix AB; BALTIC 45 128 Russian historian arrested. WORLDS Enlightenment, and when the antidemocratic analysis of e-Estonia’s faith in a balticworlds.com Brian Manning Delaney, English forces seek to sow distrust between groups to digital order; Belarusian protest A call for awareness. Kaa Eneberg Proper; Bridget Schäfer create antagonism, chaos, fear, and collapse, movements; and much more. Layout in order to appear themselves as the speakers Baltic Worlds takes pleasure in this Sara Bergfors, Lena Fredriksson, Bakhtinian of truth, the keepers of order, with the right to rich, chaotic mixture of subjects Fatherly emotions special section theory Serpentin Media The postcolonial single out scapegoats and make decisions that and narrative voices and hopes to in Soviet Russia & postsocialist Illustrators Bakhtinian theory: The postcolonial & postsocialist perspective perspective are contrary to, or change, constitutions estab- nurture new perspectives and ap- A discourse that emerged Guest editors: Yulia Gradskova & Paromita Chakrabarti Baltic Worlds’ special section Tomas Colbengtson, Katrin lished democratically. proaches. strongly in Sem’ia i shkola in the Stenmark, Karin Sunvisson, ≈ Dialogue is too often absent — a dialogue that Ninna Mörner mid-1970s is the importance of 46 Introduction. Yulia Gradskova 66 The grotesque body in Indian Ragni Svensson, Moa Thelander & Paromita Chakrabarti Rajni Mujral can permit differences to thrive, to encounter the father as a role model, espe- comic tradition. Subscription each other in a belief that there are values that ciallyto his sons. interview 73 Witchhunt in northern Sofia Barlind Per-Arne Bodin endure and can be created by building bridges, Page 20 48 A Discussion on the Bakhtin circle. Sweden. Printed by Yulia Gradskova & Paromita Chakrabarti 82 Crisis of the responsible Elanders Sverige AB Word. Paromita Chakrabarti peer-reviewed articles Printed: ISSN 2000-2955 PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES have undergone a double-blind peer review by at least two independent specialists. A peer-reviewed article pub- 57 Ukrainian popular culture. Online: ISSN 2001-7308 lished in Baltic Worlds generates one publication point for the authors and their institutions in the Norwegian bibliometric register (DHB). BW is an Viktoriya Sukovata Contact Baltic Worlds Open Access Journal and all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. More information is available on our website. [email protected] What you read in the footers is the voice of the editor. Not that of the authors. The content expresses the views of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Baltic Worlds. 4 feature peer-reviewed article 5 “SWEDENIS STEPPING OUT OF THE COLONIAL by Påhl Ruin CLOSET” Sweden’s indigenous people, the similarities in the treatment of Sami people and the treatment of indigenous people around the world. But things are happening Sami, have struggled for years to get now, Sweden is about to step out of the colonial closet.” more attention. With little result. But The 20th century abuses against the Sami have not been a secret — so why wasn’t a film like Sami Blood created now something is happening. decades ago? he spectacular success of the Swedish filmSami “It is difficult to say, but I guess that a generation needed to pass Blood says something about this topic in the Swedish before people really had the wish to dig into this, it has been too consciousness in 2017. The film portrays an old Sami painful for so many,” says Åsa Össbo. “Those who are victims Under det heliga fjället “Atoe” [Under the holy mountain “Atoe”], artwork by Sami artist Tomas Colbengtson. woman who returns to her Sami village for the fu- want to get away from that epithet; by raising the issue they neral of her sister. She is somewhat of an outcast since she left would again be victims. And of course, someone has to describe her family some 60 years back when she got sickened by the it in a way that affects us.” difficult to know where to start. Second, in Sweden we have not Sami clothing. “Don’t miss discrimination against the Sami people. The film lets us travel The film has been awarded several international prizes and experienced what’s been called ‘saltwater colonialism’, meaning the chance to learn about in time to the painful years when she realizes that being a Sami the director, Amanda Kernell, has been confronted with many the colonizers travelled over the oceans with the aim of conquer- this unique group of people: person means that you are inferior, that you are weighed and questions. One of them has been repeated several times, she told ing lands. In Sweden it has been a more subtle and slow process spend a night or two in a measured like an animal, and that your chances of getting an the audience during a panel discussion at the Swedish Film In- of domination.” Sami reindeer camp or take a education is almost equal to zero.