Kirsti Jõesalu
Biographic Data
| ID | 210286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsti Jõesalu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsti |
| FAMILY NAME | Jõesalu |
| SIGNATURE | JÕESALU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1756-047X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slow Conflict on Display
Cultural Trauma and Diversity in Museums
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
We were the children of a romantic era
This article focuses on the generational self-understanding of women born in the 1940s in Estonia. Their self-understanding is analyzed through nostalgia and private–public remembering and is based on 21 life stories. The life stories primarily focus on the everyday experiences from the late socialism era. These women are more likely to give examples not in accordance with dominant national discourse, and their voice has not been heard in the pub…
Narrating Surroundings and Suppression
The article explores how people born in Estonia in the 1970s contextualize their memories about their Soviet childhood in the context of school. Focusing on small group of people who grew up in the Soviet Estonia, we argue that in biographical narratives, school is treated as the representative of the Soviet regime. Nostalgic reminiscences from childhood embrace both commitment and resistance to the regime. The hegemonic framework of repression d…
Continuity or Discontinuity
8190 and by the European Union through its European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence of Cultural Theory). Notes 1. The anthropologist Alexei Yurchak has also described these decades as the late socialist period, spanning from 1955 to 1985 (Yurchak 2005 Yurchak, A. 2005. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. The Last Soviet Generation, Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Google Scholar], 31). 2. Our discussion will be li…
The Role of the Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Memory Politics through Examples of Speeches from Estonian Presidents
This article analyses the dynamics of memory politics in post-Soviet Estonia from the 1990s to the present day. It focuses on speeches by Estonian presidents, which are treated as a specific type of commemorative activity and studied in relation to other social memories. The analysis seeks to link the meaning conveyed in the speeches to the presidents’ personal experiences during the Soviet period. The article shows that in these speeches, the pr…
Reproducing Identity through Remembering
This article explores some of the ways in which memories of the Soviet past shape the identities and creative work of six Estonian intellectuals born in the 1970s. Based on analysis of the four cultural texts they have produced (an exhibition, a feature film, a novel and a documentary) and biographical interviews with them, it is argued that the authors' birth frame has had an impact on how they interpret the late Soviet period. They share discur…
Privaatne ja avalik nõukogude aja mõistmises ühe keskastme juhi eluloo näitel. Private and Public in the Soviet Era
The focus of our analysis is the question of how the complex world of Soviet everyday life – which was characterised by a tension between public and private – has manifested itself in the recounting of life stories. In the article we first take a look at the problem of public and private, and the possibilities of using this theoretical model when researching everyday life in the Soviet Union. In approaching the subject, we support ourselves with …
Continuity or Discontinuity
8190 and by the European Union through its European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence of Cultural Theory). Notes 1. The anthropologist Alexei Yurchak has also described these decades as the late socialist period, spanning from 1955 to 1985 (Yurchak 2005 Yurchak, A. 2005. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. The Last Soviet Generation, Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Google Scholar], 31). 2. Our discussion will be li…
The Role of the Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Memory Politics through Examples of Speeches from Estonian Presidents
This article analyses the dynamics of memory politics in post-Soviet Estonia from the 1990s to the present day. It focuses on speeches by Estonian presidents, which are treated as a specific type of commemorative activity and studied in relation to other social memories. The analysis seeks to link the meaning conveyed in the speeches to the presidents’ personal experiences during the Soviet period. The article shows that in these speeches, the pr…
Reproducing Identity through Remembering
This article explores some of the ways in which memories of the Soviet past shape the identities and creative work of six Estonian intellectuals born in the 1970s. Based on analysis of the four cultural texts they have produced (an exhibition, a feature film, a novel and a documentary) and biographical interviews with them, it is argued that the authors' birth frame has had an impact on how they interpret the late Soviet period. They share discur…
Narrating Surroundings and Suppression
The article explores how people born in Estonia in the 1970s contextualize their memories about their Soviet childhood in the context of school. Focusing on small group of people who grew up in the Soviet Estonia, we argue that in biographical narratives, school is treated as the representative of the Soviet regime. Nostalgic reminiscences from childhood embrace both commitment and resistance to the regime. The hegemonic framework of repression d…
Privaatne ja avalik nõukogude aja mõistmises ühe keskastme juhi eluloo näitel. Private and Public in the Soviet Era
The focus of our analysis is the question of how the complex world of Soviet everyday life – which was characterised by a tension between public and private – has manifested itself in the recounting of life stories. In the article we first take a look at the problem of public and private, and the possibilities of using this theoretical model when researching everyday life in the Soviet Union. In approaching the subject, we support ourselves with …
The Role of the Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Memory Politics through Examples of Speeches from Estonian Presidents
This article analyses the dynamics of memory politics in post-Soviet Estonia from the 1990s to the present day. It focuses on speeches by Estonian presidents, which are treated as a specific type of commemorative activity and studied in relation to other social memories. The analysis seeks to link the meaning conveyed in the speeches to the presidents’ personal experiences during the Soviet period. The article shows that in these speeches, the pr…
Reproducing Identity through Remembering
This article explores some of the ways in which memories of the Soviet past shape the identities and creative work of six Estonian intellectuals born in the 1970s. Based on analysis of the four cultural texts they have produced (an exhibition, a feature film, a novel and a documentary) and biographical interviews with them, it is argued that the authors' birth frame has had an impact on how they interpret the late Soviet period. They share discur…
Continuity or Discontinuity
8190 and by the European Union through its European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence of Cultural Theory). Notes 1. The anthropologist Alexei Yurchak has also described these decades as the late socialist period, spanning from 1955 to 1985 (Yurchak 2005 Yurchak, A. 2005. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. The Last Soviet Generation, Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Google Scholar], 31). 2. Our discussion will be li…
We were the children of a romantic era
This article focuses on the generational self-understanding of women born in the 1940s in Estonia. Their self-understanding is analyzed through nostalgia and private–public remembering and is based on 21 life stories. The life stories primarily focus on the everyday experiences from the late socialism era. These women are more likely to give examples not in accordance with dominant national discourse, and their voice has not been heard in the pub…
Narrating Surroundings and Suppression
The article explores how people born in Estonia in the 1970s contextualize their memories about their Soviet childhood in the context of school. Focusing on small group of people who grew up in the Soviet Estonia, we argue that in biographical narratives, school is treated as the representative of the Soviet regime. Nostalgic reminiscences from childhood embrace both commitment and resistance to the regime. The hegemonic framework of repression d…
Cultural Trauma and Diversity in Museums
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
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Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)