Raili Nugin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 809258 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Raili Nugin |
| NOMBRES | Raili |
| APELLIDO | Nugin |
| FIRMA | NUGIN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1428-5724 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 54 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Urgent waiting
This article develops the concept of ‘urgent waiting’ to describe a condition central to temporal bordering in contemporary asylum regimes. We argue that for refugees, delay and urgency are not alternating phases but a single, co-produced governing condition in which stasis and compulsory readiness are simultaneously imposed. To build this theory, we conduct a diachronic analysis of Estonia’s bordering regime, contrasting the attritional ‘slow ti…
Mapping the intangible
This article examines how boundary-making in rural landscapes reflects resilience, power dynamics, community tensions, and broader geopolitical shifts. It explores the interplay between geopolitical borders and local material boundaries—such as fences and walls—demonstrating how large-scale processes are embedded in everyday landscapes. Drawing on the concept of landscape biography, the article treats rural fences as cultural markers shaped by et…
Navigating Margins
This article delves into the experiences of young people facing social exclusion. By analysing qualitative interviews with key stakeholders and at-risk youth, including those incarcerated, we uncover the nuanced interrelations of trust, autonomy and institutional support. The study emphasizes the role of schools in either exacerbating or alleviating exclusion, noting the impact of educational settings on youth development. It highlights issues li…
Invisible Legacies and Rural/Urban Dynamics in Heritagization Process of Soviet-Era Collective Farm Buildings
This article concentrates on the role of social and spatial processes that influence how architectural sites of the past are deemed part of the cultural heritage. It will focus on the contested architecture of collective farms in post-Soviet Estonia. By analyzing urban–rural dynamics and mnemonic processes dealing with controversial historical periods, it will demonstrate the complex negotiations that are involved in heritagization processes. The…
Emergent rural-urban relations in Covid-19 disturbances
The recent Covid-19 pandemic highlighted rural-urban interactions, in particular the fact that cities are dependent on the accessibility of non-metropolitan and rural spaces and vice versa. This article seeks to understand how these interactions contributed to emergent relational spaces of rurality during the Covid-19 crisis. The article analyses politicised mobilities between localities and rural-urban linkages that are tied to the sustainabilit…
Liikuvus maal – läbi kriiside hübriidse võrgustunud ruumi poole
Silence and tranquillity form an integral part of rural life and contribute to our understanding of rurality. Thus, it is generally held that time passes slowly in the countryside, far from the nervous city life. Therefore, it is not surprising that mobility and movement (which are associated with speed and being busy) are associated with urbanity and stillness with rurality. Peace and quiet and the absence of hustle are highlighted even by those…
The landscape approach to planetary urbanization
While the term ‘landscape’ consistently appears in the argumentation of planetary urbanization, it remains an under-conceptualized signifier in this theory. This is a missed opportunity. Written by scholars who study landscape, this paper scrutinizes the planetary urbanization approach by adding the ‘landscape perspective’. The article offers an analytical framework and tools to unpack contemporary processes of extended urbanization in a more nua…
Borderscapes in landscape
This article explores the interrelatedness of ideology and everyday practices, which initiate and shape bordering practices in landscape. By analysing a case study of (re)arranging Estonian land usage borders after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it gives a glance at how the conflicts that arise from bordering practices are reconciled on the individual and collective level. The empirical material of the study is based on the minutes of the E…
Childhood years as generational capital
People born in the 1970s in Estonia spent their childhood during Soviet times and experienced their coming of age during the transition years of the 1990s. Experiencing the Soviet regime as children gave them experiences of that era, but kept them at a distance from involvement in regime’s culpable actions. It also enabled them to start their adult lives during the transition times, adjusting to new transition routes. Remembering the Soviet era a…
Space, Place and Capitals in Rural Youth Mobility
Drawing on fieldwork in six Estonian rural areas from 2010-2019, the article calls for a nuanced understanding of the processes of mobility and migration in rural areas. Based on qualitative in-depth and focus-group interviews with rural youth and key stakeholders, several phenomena are identified as crucial to understanding the dynamics of mobility. Mobility is seen as a negotiated process, intertwined with the social structures of the location,…
Rejecting, re-shaping, rearranging
Constructing a shared past is one of the ways to integrate young people into their communities. In a multicultural post-socialist society like Estonia, different narratives sometimes complement, but often compete with each other. Thus, the conflicting stories need to be negotiated to create a usable past. Based on 14 interviews within 5 families, the article explores the issues of negotiating memory in family contexts. It will be argued that in c…
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Elulood ja põlvkondlikud mustrid
Muistendid, muinasjutud ning rahvajutud on alati ajas teisenenud: sotsiaalses keskkonnas muudetakse nende rõhuasetusi, lisatakse detaile, pööratakse puänte. Rahvajuttude algupärandid kipuvad ajas kaduma, säilivad vaid need, mida vaevutakse kirja panema. Nii teame, et Charles Perrault’ Punamütsike jäigi hundi kõhtu, sest tema ajal oli kombeks rääkida lastele sõnakuulekuse tagamiseks hirmulugusid. Hiljem aga leiti, et laste hirmutamine pole [...]
Generations in Estonia
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their construction is interdependent, the authors have each chose…
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…
I think that they should go. Let them see something”. The context of rural youth's out-migration in post-socialist Estonia
Individualism and its different faces
This article aims to show the different faces of individualism as a phenomenon among different age groups. Relying on several authors dealing with individualism, it is argued that individualism is a paradoxical phenomenon and can involve controversial characteristics. Drawing on ethnographic study of a youth seminar and in-depth and focus group interviews, it demonstrates that among different age cohorts the traits of individualism can vary, depe…
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…
Defining Success in a Changing Society
The term ‘success’ characterizes the social status of individuals and groups in a society, yet its meaning is subject to the continuous processes of reconstruction in public and academic discourse. Who is labeled successful is rapidly changing in transitional societies such as those of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In these contexts, sociologists have identified age as one of the factors influencing success or failure in socie…
Constructing adulthood in a world of uncertainties
Rapid changes in the society have surrounded the lives of young people with uncertainties, resulting in the construction of flexible identities. Since traditional values are undergoing a process of change as well, crucial age concepts have become obscure, and have come to depend on a given context. However, in a transitional society, like post-Communist Estonia, these uncertainties are constantly changing and different age cohorts face different …
I think that they should go. Let them see something”. The context of rural youth's out-migration in post-socialist Estonia
The landscape approach to planetary urbanization
While the term ‘landscape’ consistently appears in the argumentation of planetary urbanization, it remains an under-conceptualized signifier in this theory. This is a missed opportunity. Written by scholars who study landscape, this paper scrutinizes the planetary urbanization approach by adding the ‘landscape perspective’. The article offers an analytical framework and tools to unpack contemporary processes of extended urbanization in a more nua…
Space, Place and Capitals in Rural Youth Mobility
Drawing on fieldwork in six Estonian rural areas from 2010-2019, the article calls for a nuanced understanding of the processes of mobility and migration in rural areas. Based on qualitative in-depth and focus-group interviews with rural youth and key stakeholders, several phenomena are identified as crucial to understanding the dynamics of mobility. Mobility is seen as a negotiated process, intertwined with the social structures of the location,…
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…
Defining Success in a Changing Society
The term ‘success’ characterizes the social status of individuals and groups in a society, yet its meaning is subject to the continuous processes of reconstruction in public and academic discourse. Who is labeled successful is rapidly changing in transitional societies such as those of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In these contexts, sociologists have identified age as one of the factors influencing success or failure in socie…
Constructing adulthood in a world of uncertainties
Rapid changes in the society have surrounded the lives of young people with uncertainties, resulting in the construction of flexible identities. Since traditional values are undergoing a process of change as well, crucial age concepts have become obscure, and have come to depend on a given context. However, in a transitional society, like post-Communist Estonia, these uncertainties are constantly changing and different age cohorts face different …
Emergent rural-urban relations in Covid-19 disturbances
The recent Covid-19 pandemic highlighted rural-urban interactions, in particular the fact that cities are dependent on the accessibility of non-metropolitan and rural spaces and vice versa. This article seeks to understand how these interactions contributed to emergent relational spaces of rurality during the Covid-19 crisis. The article analyses politicised mobilities between localities and rural-urban linkages that are tied to the sustainabilit…
Rejecting, re-shaping, rearranging
Constructing a shared past is one of the ways to integrate young people into their communities. In a multicultural post-socialist society like Estonia, different narratives sometimes complement, but often compete with each other. Thus, the conflicting stories need to be negotiated to create a usable past. Based on 14 interviews within 5 families, the article explores the issues of negotiating memory in family contexts. It will be argued that in c…
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…
Individualism and its different faces
This article aims to show the different faces of individualism as a phenomenon among different age groups. Relying on several authors dealing with individualism, it is argued that individualism is a paradoxical phenomenon and can involve controversial characteristics. Drawing on ethnographic study of a youth seminar and in-depth and focus group interviews, it demonstrates that among different age cohorts the traits of individualism can vary, depe…
Constructing adulthood in a world of uncertainties
Rapid changes in the society have surrounded the lives of young people with uncertainties, resulting in the construction of flexible identities. Since traditional values are undergoing a process of change as well, crucial age concepts have become obscure, and have come to depend on a given context. However, in a transitional society, like post-Communist Estonia, these uncertainties are constantly changing and different age cohorts face different …
Defining Success in a Changing Society
The term ‘success’ characterizes the social status of individuals and groups in a society, yet its meaning is subject to the continuous processes of reconstruction in public and academic discourse. Who is labeled successful is rapidly changing in transitional societies such as those of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In these contexts, sociologists have identified age as one of the factors influencing success or failure in socie…
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…
Individualism and its different faces
This article aims to show the different faces of individualism as a phenomenon among different age groups. Relying on several authors dealing with individualism, it is argued that individualism is a paradoxical phenomenon and can involve controversial characteristics. Drawing on ethnographic study of a youth seminar and in-depth and focus group interviews, it demonstrates that among different age cohorts the traits of individualism can vary, depe…
I think that they should go. Let them see something”. The context of rural youth's out-migration in post-socialist Estonia
Generations in Estonia
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their construction is interdependent, the authors have each chose…
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…
Elulood ja põlvkondlikud mustrid
Muistendid, muinasjutud ning rahvajutud on alati ajas teisenenud: sotsiaalses keskkonnas muudetakse nende rõhuasetusi, lisatakse detaile, pööratakse puänte. Rahvajuttude algupärandid kipuvad ajas kaduma, säilivad vaid need, mida vaevutakse kirja panema. Nii teame, et Charles Perrault’ Punamütsike jäigi hundi kõhtu, sest tema ajal oli kombeks rääkida lastele sõnakuulekuse tagamiseks hirmulugusid. Hiljem aga leiti, et laste hirmutamine pole [...]
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Rejecting, re-shaping, rearranging
Constructing a shared past is one of the ways to integrate young people into their communities. In a multicultural post-socialist society like Estonia, different narratives sometimes complement, but often compete with each other. Thus, the conflicting stories need to be negotiated to create a usable past. Based on 14 interviews within 5 families, the article explores the issues of negotiating memory in family contexts. It will be argued that in c…
Space, Place and Capitals in Rural Youth Mobility
Drawing on fieldwork in six Estonian rural areas from 2010-2019, the article calls for a nuanced understanding of the processes of mobility and migration in rural areas. Based on qualitative in-depth and focus-group interviews with rural youth and key stakeholders, several phenomena are identified as crucial to understanding the dynamics of mobility. Mobility is seen as a negotiated process, intertwined with the social structures of the location,…
Borderscapes in landscape
This article explores the interrelatedness of ideology and everyday practices, which initiate and shape bordering practices in landscape. By analysing a case study of (re)arranging Estonian land usage borders after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it gives a glance at how the conflicts that arise from bordering practices are reconciled on the individual and collective level. The empirical material of the study is based on the minutes of the E…
Childhood years as generational capital
People born in the 1970s in Estonia spent their childhood during Soviet times and experienced their coming of age during the transition years of the 1990s. Experiencing the Soviet regime as children gave them experiences of that era, but kept them at a distance from involvement in regime’s culpable actions. It also enabled them to start their adult lives during the transition times, adjusting to new transition routes. Remembering the Soviet era a…
Liikuvus maal – läbi kriiside hübriidse võrgustunud ruumi poole
Silence and tranquillity form an integral part of rural life and contribute to our understanding of rurality. Thus, it is generally held that time passes slowly in the countryside, far from the nervous city life. Therefore, it is not surprising that mobility and movement (which are associated with speed and being busy) are associated with urbanity and stillness with rurality. Peace and quiet and the absence of hustle are highlighted even by those…
The landscape approach to planetary urbanization
While the term ‘landscape’ consistently appears in the argumentation of planetary urbanization, it remains an under-conceptualized signifier in this theory. This is a missed opportunity. Written by scholars who study landscape, this paper scrutinizes the planetary urbanization approach by adding the ‘landscape perspective’. The article offers an analytical framework and tools to unpack contemporary processes of extended urbanization in a more nua…
Invisible Legacies and Rural/Urban Dynamics in Heritagization Process of Soviet-Era Collective Farm Buildings
This article concentrates on the role of social and spatial processes that influence how architectural sites of the past are deemed part of the cultural heritage. It will focus on the contested architecture of collective farms in post-Soviet Estonia. By analyzing urban–rural dynamics and mnemonic processes dealing with controversial historical periods, it will demonstrate the complex negotiations that are involved in heritagization processes. The…
Emergent rural-urban relations in Covid-19 disturbances
The recent Covid-19 pandemic highlighted rural-urban interactions, in particular the fact that cities are dependent on the accessibility of non-metropolitan and rural spaces and vice versa. This article seeks to understand how these interactions contributed to emergent relational spaces of rurality during the Covid-19 crisis. The article analyses politicised mobilities between localities and rural-urban linkages that are tied to the sustainabilit…
Mapping the intangible
This article examines how boundary-making in rural landscapes reflects resilience, power dynamics, community tensions, and broader geopolitical shifts. It explores the interplay between geopolitical borders and local material boundaries—such as fences and walls—demonstrating how large-scale processes are embedded in everyday landscapes. Drawing on the concept of landscape biography, the article treats rural fences as cultural markers shaped by et…
Navigating Margins
This article delves into the experiences of young people facing social exclusion. By analysing qualitative interviews with key stakeholders and at-risk youth, including those incarcerated, we uncover the nuanced interrelations of trust, autonomy and institutional support. The study emphasizes the role of schools in either exacerbating or alleviating exclusion, noting the impact of educational settings on youth development. It highlights issues li…
Urgent waiting
This article develops the concept of ‘urgent waiting’ to describe a condition central to temporal bordering in contemporary asylum regimes. We argue that for refugees, delay and urgency are not alternating phases but a single, co-produced governing condition in which stasis and compulsory readiness are simultaneously imposed. To build this theory, we conduct a diachronic analysis of Estonia’s bordering regime, contrasting the attritional ‘slow ti…
Political science (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Social science (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Rural development and sustainability (6 obras)