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Subject: New open access book: Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia: An
Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces
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UCL Press is delighted to announce a brand new open access book that may be
of interest to members of this list: Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia:
An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces by Francisco
Martínez. Download it free from: https://goo.gl/p9qxiC
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Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia: An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair
and Urban Traces
Francisco Martínez
Free download: https://goo.gl/p9qxiC
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What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a
new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to
global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory
in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, allowing for
new opportunities for recuperation.
Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore
the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: a street market in Tallinn
where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly
different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a multi-purpose venue,
whose Soviet heritage now poses difficult questions of how to present the
building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and
temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city
that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European
Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation; and the new Estonian
National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has
avoided promoting a single narrative of the past.
By exploring these places of cultural and historical significance, which all
contribute to our understanding of how the new generation in Estonia is not
following the expectations and values of its predecessor, the book also
demonstrates how we can understand generational change in a material sense.
Free download: https://goo.gl/p9qxiC
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