A Lorraine Kaljund
Biographic Data
| ID | 121645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Lorraine Kaljund |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Lorraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaljund |
| SIGNATURE | KALJUND A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The answers you seek will never be found at home
On the Material Semiotics of the Bates Stamp
Ethnographic studies of legal materiality and the bureaucratic mundanities of law often juxtapose their richly empirical approach to the material assemblages of law with the ‘grand talk’ and conceptual abstractions of law. This article considers the intersection of formal legal discourse and the mundanity of bureaucratic practice through an examination of two judicial opinions concerning the legal significance of the Bates number, a sequential di…
Orientalism Against Empire
In this article, I show how the same pernicious Eurocentric discourses and ethnic value hierarchies, which are so often mobilized to validate empirebuilding, can be used as tools of resistance against imperial domination. Weaving evidence from interviews and historical sources together with two vignettes of Estonians performing temporal and ethnic others at themed costume parties, I show how the belief that Estonians are more civilized and better…
Restoration Doctrine Rebooted
In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the semantic and legal terms of Estonia's emergence as an independent state were dictated by what scholars have called the "restoration doctrine." This doctrine held that Estonia was not a newly independent state, but a restored version of the same republic that was founded in 1918. The highly politicized "restorationist geopolitics" that followed had profound effects on Estonian statecraft and policy i…
Orientalism Against Empire
In this article, I show how the same pernicious Eurocentric discourses and ethnic value hierarchies, which are so often mobilized to validate empirebuilding, can be used as tools of resistance against imperial domination. Weaving evidence from interviews and historical sources together with two vignettes of Estonians performing temporal and ethnic others at themed costume parties, I show how the belief that Estonians are more civilized and better…
Restoration Doctrine Rebooted
In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the semantic and legal terms of Estonia's emergence as an independent state were dictated by what scholars have called the "restoration doctrine." This doctrine held that Estonia was not a newly independent state, but a restored version of the same republic that was founded in 1918. The highly politicized "restorationist geopolitics" that followed had profound effects on Estonian statecraft and policy i…
On the Material Semiotics of the Bates Stamp
Ethnographic studies of legal materiality and the bureaucratic mundanities of law often juxtapose their richly empirical approach to the material assemblages of law with the ‘grand talk’ and conceptual abstractions of law. This article considers the intersection of formal legal discourse and the mundanity of bureaucratic practice through an examination of two judicial opinions concerning the legal significance of the Bates number, a sequential di…
Orientalism Against Empire
In this article, I show how the same pernicious Eurocentric discourses and ethnic value hierarchies, which are so often mobilized to validate empirebuilding, can be used as tools of resistance against imperial domination. Weaving evidence from interviews and historical sources together with two vignettes of Estonians performing temporal and ethnic others at themed costume parties, I show how the belief that Estonians are more civilized and better…
Restoration Doctrine Rebooted
In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the semantic and legal terms of Estonia's emergence as an independent state were dictated by what scholars have called the "restoration doctrine." This doctrine held that Estonia was not a newly independent state, but a restored version of the same republic that was founded in 1918. The highly politicized "restorationist geopolitics" that followed had profound effects on Estonian statecraft and policy i…
The answers you seek will never be found at home
Anthropology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 works)