Open AccessNÅR STEDER OPLØSES: Russeres begrebsliggørelse af et Riga under forandring
Author(s) -
Camilla Rosengaard
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i35-36.115281
Subject(s) - latvian , deterritorialization , citizenship , ethnic group , state (computer science) , political science , capital (architecture) , subject (documents) , delegation , ethnology , sociology , humanities , history , law , ancient history , art , library science , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , politics , computer science
Camilla Rosengaard: When Places Disintegrate
This paper focuses on how ethnic Russians
attempt to oppose the processes of deterritorialization
they are subject to in the
newly established Latvian State. The attempt
on behalf of the Latvian State to marginalise
the Russians is - among other things -
expressed in the spatial restructuration of
Latvia’s Capital Riga. Markers and signs
refering to the Russian community and the
Soviet past to a large extern are removed
from the city-scape. In keeping a tour-map
of all the removed places in mind, the
Russians manage to keep track on the Soviet
place and thereby create a continuity with
the past. In creating this discursive place, the
Russians challenge the official Latvian
history and their role in it as foreigners who
are not granted citizenship.