Eglė Rindzevičiūtė
Biographic Data
| ID | 168420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eglė Rindzevičiūtė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eglė |
| FAMILY NAME | Rindzevičiūtė |
| SIGNATURE | RINDZEVIČIŪTĖ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1050-4873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
De-centring the history of the internet in the Soviet Union: Computers, networks and the infrastructural politics of digitality in Lithuania
This article proposes de-centring the Russia-focused history of the Soviet computer networks by engaging with the developments in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Although in Lithuania the computer industry and digital connectivity developed as part of the Soviet big science and large systems, its politics took a different shape locally and regionally through incremental and situated practices. I argue that the national politics of digitality in…
The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: Layering the past
This article explores nuclear cultural heritage-making as a spatial activity in the context of nuclear secrecy and restricted access. It focuses on the closed city Sarov, formerly Arzamas-16, the birthplace of Soviet nuclear weapons. Since the end of the Cold War, Sarov has cultivated its image as a heritage site, opening a Museum of Nuclear Weapons, pioneering nuclear scientists and local history, as well as reconstructing religious sites. Based…
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation
This article explores the practice of pre-empting controversy as an example of the wicked problem of cultural participation in the digital media.Drawing on science and technology studies (STS), research into the history of cybernetics, artificial intelligence (AI), and policy studies, it argues that the ongoing digital transformation and the expansion of the algorithmic public sphere does not solve but amplifies the problem of cultural participat…
Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: The endless frontier
The title of this special issue borrows from Vannevar Bush’s book Science: The Endless Frontier (1945), an influential treatise on the role of science in national welfare that paved the way for bot
Nuclear Power as Cultural Heritage in Russia
This article maps the presentation of nuclear power as valuable cultural heritage in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Drawing on the analysis of archival documents, exhibitions, site visits and interviews, it argues that the nuclear cultural heritage-making that is taking place in Russia is not limited to self-promotion by the nuclear industry but is shaped by different professional and societal groups seeking to define their identity and gain reco…
Chernobyl as Technoscience
This essay considers the TV miniseries Chernobyl (HBO, 2019) to engage in a wider debate on the social and institutional production of techno-science. It explores whether the series resonates with the existing narratives and interpretations of Soviet technoscience in scholarly historiography. The author argues that although the series downplays important aspects of Soviet history, such as international knowledge transfer, it successfully demonstr…
Culture Unbound Vol. 12 Editorial
Scenescapes: How qualities of place shape social life
In Scenescapes Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark have set an ambitious goal. The book seeks to analytically capture the complexity of the way in which concrete localities shape different
Systems Analysis as Infrastructural Knowledge
This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of "infrastructural knowledge"-that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge-that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific experts in the Soviet Union. Systems expertise is largely missing from existing work on the history of Soviet infrastructure. The article analyzes the development of govern…
Soviet Policy Sciences and Earth System Governmentality
This article introduces non-Western policy sciences into the burgeoning field of the intellectual history of Earth system governmentality, a field that studies the ideas, institutions and material systems that enable action at the global scale. It outlines the rise of debates on the idea of the governability of the global biosphere in late Soviet Russia (1970s–1980s), focusing particularly on the extension of Vladimir Vernadskii's famous theory o…
Boundary Objects of Communism. Assembling the Soviet Past in Lithuanian Museums
Dans cet article, je défends l'idée que la perspective théorique de l'objet-frontière peut utilement enrichir les études concernant la présentation du passé soviétique dans les musées. Je m'appuie sur ce concept développé par Susan Lei Star et James R. Griesemer pour montrer comment différents objets et structures matérielles sont attribués à l'ère communiste, et assemblés à la façon d'un patrimoine culturel puis mis en scène grâce à l'expertise …
Policy change as institutional work: Introducing cultural and creative industries into cultural policy
Purpose Policy change is frequently framed as resulting from governmental strategy based on explicit preferences, rational decision making and consecutive and aligned implementation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical perspective of institutional work as an alternative approach to understanding policy change, and investigates the construction of resources needed to perform such work. Design/methodology/approach The paper is b…
Cold War modernists: Art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy
Greg Barnhisel’s new book Cold War Modernists is an important contribution to several academic fields, ranging from cultural diplomacy studies and cultural history to Cold War history. Cold War Mod
A Struggle for the Soviet Future: The Birth of Scientific Forecasting in the Soviet Union
This article analyzes the development of Soviet scientific future studies after World War II, arguing that the field's theory and methods undermined the certainty of the communist future and laid the foundations for a new Soviet governmentality that acknowledged the intrinsic uncertainty of future development. The emphasis on uncertainty-but also the need for more data that could freely circulate between different branches of government and hence…
The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future
This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and post-colonial regimes after the Second World War. It highlights the emergence of new forms of predictive scientific expertise in this period, and shows how such…
The future as an intellectual technology in the Soviet Union: From Centralised Planning to Reflexive Management
This article examines the ways in which the future as a dimension of goal‐oriented behaviour was used to organise and legitimise informal practices of management and planning in the Soviet Union. This study introduces the hitherto unexplored history of reflexive management under an authoritarian regime, focusing on the work of Russian philosopher and management guru Georgii Shchedrovitskii. Drawing on the cybernetic notion of teleology, which pos…
Making culture, changing society
What is left for culture when its ‘others’, such as nature and the social, are gone? In his new book Tony Bennett offers an answer to this question by redefining the fundamental conceptual conditio
The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea
This article examines the transfer of creative industries as a policy idea to Lithuania. Tracing the stages of the transfer and analysing its consequences in the local cultural policy field, this paper argues for the importance of studying cultural policy process. The findings reveal that the process of the international transfer of creative industries mattered, because it generated wider transformations in cultural policy field by having ambiguo…
The Overflow of Secrets: The Disclosure of Soviet Repression in Museums as an Excess
This article uses the metaphor of overflow to understand the role played by the revelation of previously secret experience in the controversial Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, Lithuania. It shows how efforts to disclose Soviet repression and to consolidate and sustain a particular community of survivors, the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, produced an "excess" of revelation in a context of radical political change that in the p…
Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: The meanings of democratisation
This paper presents a general overview of the process of the democratisation of cultural policy in Lithuania by exploring explicit arguments about democratisation in debates and policy documents in Lithuania (1988–2011). At the early stage of transformation (1988–1992), democratisation was envisaged as the administrative decentralisation of political institutions, particularly the Ministry of Culture, and as the introduction of democratic princip…
Annotations
The history of Soviet architecture and design has been steadily evolving in the interstices of social history and main stream history of art.Being a node that brings together artists and industrial and political decisionmakers, architecture is an object par excellence that lends itself to the study of attempts at rational planning and absurd failures, aspirations to beauty and the starkly evident poverty in Soviet society.This monograph, 'Archite…
Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain
Book review of Emma Waterton, Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan 2010
When Formal Organisations Meet Informal Relations in Soviet Lithuania: Action Nets, Networks and Boundary Objects in the Construction of the Lithuanian Sea Museum
This study considers organisation in countries under the Soviet regime. The focus is on the creation of the Sea Museum in Klaipėda from the 1960s to the 1980s, a massive undertaking that required huge capital investments, use of rare foreign materials, cooperation between many different sectors (Soviet military, heritage preservation, seaport management, seagoing fishing vessels and zoos in Eastern bloc countries), and many innovations in designi…
Soviet Lithuanians, Amber and the 'New Balts: Historical Narratives of National and Regional Identities in Lithuanian Museums, 1940-2009
In the twentieth century Lithuania emerged from the crumbling Russian Empire as a post-colonial nationalising state. Its short-lived independence (1918-1940) featured attempts to assemble the material foundations for an imagined community of Lithuanians, however in 1940 this nationalist project was disrupted by Soviet occupation. However, this article argues that regardless of the measures taken against political nationalism by the Soviets, the m…
Nation” and “Europe”: Re-approaching the debates about Lithuanian national identity
The article explores the historical roots of the contemporary debate about Lithuanian national identity. The analysis of the development of two major traditions of defining and positioning Lithuanian national identity in the international context sets out to introduce and explain the co-existing conservative and constructionist concepts of national identity that have been persisted throughout the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid to…
A Struggle for the Soviet Future: The Birth of Scientific Forecasting in the Soviet Union
This article analyzes the development of Soviet scientific future studies after World War II, arguing that the field's theory and methods undermined the certainty of the communist future and laid the foundations for a new Soviet governmentality that acknowledged the intrinsic uncertainty of future development. The emphasis on uncertainty-but also the need for more data that could freely circulate between different branches of government and hence…
The Overflow of Secrets: The Disclosure of Soviet Repression in Museums as an Excess
This article uses the metaphor of overflow to understand the role played by the revelation of previously secret experience in the controversial Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, Lithuania. It shows how efforts to disclose Soviet repression and to consolidate and sustain a particular community of survivors, the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, produced an "excess" of revelation in a context of radical political change that in the p…
The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea
This article examines the transfer of creative industries as a policy idea to Lithuania. Tracing the stages of the transfer and analysing its consequences in the local cultural policy field, this paper argues for the importance of studying cultural policy process. The findings reveal that the process of the international transfer of creative industries mattered, because it generated wider transformations in cultural policy field by having ambiguo…
Boundary Objects of Communism. Assembling the Soviet Past in Lithuanian Museums
Dans cet article, je défends l'idée que la perspective théorique de l'objet-frontière peut utilement enrichir les études concernant la présentation du passé soviétique dans les musées. Je m'appuie sur ce concept développé par Susan Lei Star et James R. Griesemer pour montrer comment différents objets et structures matérielles sont attribués à l'ère communiste, et assemblés à la façon d'un patrimoine culturel puis mis en scène grâce à l'expertise …
Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: The meanings of democratisation
This paper presents a general overview of the process of the democratisation of cultural policy in Lithuania by exploring explicit arguments about democratisation in debates and policy documents in Lithuania (1988–2011). At the early stage of transformation (1988–1992), democratisation was envisaged as the administrative decentralisation of political institutions, particularly the Ministry of Culture, and as the introduction of democratic princip…
Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: The endless frontier
The title of this special issue borrows from Vannevar Bush’s book Science: The Endless Frontier (1945), an influential treatise on the role of science in national welfare that paved the way for bot
Nation” and “Europe”: Re-approaching the debates about Lithuanian national identity
The article explores the historical roots of the contemporary debate about Lithuanian national identity. The analysis of the development of two major traditions of defining and positioning Lithuanian national identity in the international context sets out to introduce and explain the co-existing conservative and constructionist concepts of national identity that have been persisted throughout the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid to…
Systems Analysis as Infrastructural Knowledge
This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of "infrastructural knowledge"-that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge-that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific experts in the Soviet Union. Systems expertise is largely missing from existing work on the history of Soviet infrastructure. The article analyzes the development of govern…
Soviet Policy Sciences and Earth System Governmentality
This article introduces non-Western policy sciences into the burgeoning field of the intellectual history of Earth system governmentality, a field that studies the ideas, institutions and material systems that enable action at the global scale. It outlines the rise of debates on the idea of the governability of the global biosphere in late Soviet Russia (1970s–1980s), focusing particularly on the extension of Vladimir Vernadskii's famous theory o…
When Formal Organisations Meet Informal Relations in Soviet Lithuania: Action Nets, Networks and Boundary Objects in the Construction of the Lithuanian Sea Museum
This study considers organisation in countries under the Soviet regime. The focus is on the creation of the Sea Museum in Klaipėda from the 1960s to the 1980s, a massive undertaking that required huge capital investments, use of rare foreign materials, cooperation between many different sectors (Soviet military, heritage preservation, seaport management, seagoing fishing vessels and zoos in Eastern bloc countries), and many innovations in designi…
Soviet Lithuanians, Amber and the 'New Balts: Historical Narratives of National and Regional Identities in Lithuanian Museums, 1940-2009
In the twentieth century Lithuania emerged from the crumbling Russian Empire as a post-colonial nationalising state. Its short-lived independence (1918-1940) featured attempts to assemble the material foundations for an imagined community of Lithuanians, however in 1940 this nationalist project was disrupted by Soviet occupation. However, this article argues that regardless of the measures taken against political nationalism by the Soviets, the m…
Nuclear Power as Cultural Heritage in Russia
This article maps the presentation of nuclear power as valuable cultural heritage in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Drawing on the analysis of archival documents, exhibitions, site visits and interviews, it argues that the nuclear cultural heritage-making that is taking place in Russia is not limited to self-promotion by the nuclear industry but is shaped by different professional and societal groups seeking to define their identity and gain reco…
Chernobyl as Technoscience
This essay considers the TV miniseries Chernobyl (HBO, 2019) to engage in a wider debate on the social and institutional production of techno-science. It explores whether the series resonates with the existing narratives and interpretations of Soviet technoscience in scholarly historiography. The author argues that although the series downplays important aspects of Soviet history, such as international knowledge transfer, it successfully demonstr…
Cold War modernists: Art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy
Greg Barnhisel’s new book Cold War Modernists is an important contribution to several academic fields, ranging from cultural diplomacy studies and cultural history to Cold War history. Cold War Mod
Europietiškumo problema diskusijose apie lietuvišką nacionalinį identitetą
We can distinguish different approaches to European identity in contemporary Lithuanian and European discourses. Western scholars, such as Jacque Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Gerard Delanty, Soledad Garcia, Cris Shore and others, stress (and question) the political and economic basis of European identity. This approach is revealed in both normative discussions and actual policies of European identity, and is supported by public opinion surveys, whic…
Nation” and “Europe”: Re-approaching the debates about Lithuanian national identity
The article explores the historical roots of the contemporary debate about Lithuanian national identity. The analysis of the development of two major traditions of defining and positioning Lithuanian national identity in the international context sets out to introduce and explain the co-existing conservative and constructionist concepts of national identity that have been persisted throughout the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid to…
When Formal Organisations Meet Informal Relations in Soviet Lithuania: Action Nets, Networks and Boundary Objects in the Construction of the Lithuanian Sea Museum
This study considers organisation in countries under the Soviet regime. The focus is on the creation of the Sea Museum in Klaipėda from the 1960s to the 1980s, a massive undertaking that required huge capital investments, use of rare foreign materials, cooperation between many different sectors (Soviet military, heritage preservation, seaport management, seagoing fishing vessels and zoos in Eastern bloc countries), and many innovations in designi…
Soviet Lithuanians, Amber and the 'New Balts: Historical Narratives of National and Regional Identities in Lithuanian Museums, 1940-2009
In the twentieth century Lithuania emerged from the crumbling Russian Empire as a post-colonial nationalising state. Its short-lived independence (1918-1940) featured attempts to assemble the material foundations for an imagined community of Lithuanians, however in 1940 this nationalist project was disrupted by Soviet occupation. However, this article argues that regardless of the measures taken against political nationalism by the Soviets, the m…
Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain
Book review of Emma Waterton, Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: The meanings of democratisation
This paper presents a general overview of the process of the democratisation of cultural policy in Lithuania by exploring explicit arguments about democratisation in debates and policy documents in Lithuania (1988–2011). At the early stage of transformation (1988–1992), democratisation was envisaged as the administrative decentralisation of political institutions, particularly the Ministry of Culture, and as the introduction of democratic princip…
Annotations
The history of Soviet architecture and design has been steadily evolving in the interstices of social history and main stream history of art.Being a node that brings together artists and industrial and political decisionmakers, architecture is an object par excellence that lends itself to the study of attempts at rational planning and absurd failures, aspirations to beauty and the starkly evident poverty in Soviet society.This monograph, 'Archite…
The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future
This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and post-colonial regimes after the Second World War. It highlights the emergence of new forms of predictive scientific expertise in this period, and shows how such…
The future as an intellectual technology in the Soviet Union: From Centralised Planning to Reflexive Management
This article examines the ways in which the future as a dimension of goal‐oriented behaviour was used to organise and legitimise informal practices of management and planning in the Soviet Union. This study introduces the hitherto unexplored history of reflexive management under an authoritarian regime, focusing on the work of Russian philosopher and management guru Georgii Shchedrovitskii. Drawing on the cybernetic notion of teleology, which pos…
Making culture, changing society
What is left for culture when its ‘others’, such as nature and the social, are gone? In his new book Tony Bennett offers an answer to this question by redefining the fundamental conceptual conditio
The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea
This article examines the transfer of creative industries as a policy idea to Lithuania. Tracing the stages of the transfer and analysing its consequences in the local cultural policy field, this paper argues for the importance of studying cultural policy process. The findings reveal that the process of the international transfer of creative industries mattered, because it generated wider transformations in cultural policy field by having ambiguo…
The Overflow of Secrets: The Disclosure of Soviet Repression in Museums as an Excess
This article uses the metaphor of overflow to understand the role played by the revelation of previously secret experience in the controversial Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, Lithuania. It shows how efforts to disclose Soviet repression and to consolidate and sustain a particular community of survivors, the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees, produced an "excess" of revelation in a context of radical political change that in the p…
A Struggle for the Soviet Future: The Birth of Scientific Forecasting in the Soviet Union
This article analyzes the development of Soviet scientific future studies after World War II, arguing that the field's theory and methods undermined the certainty of the communist future and laid the foundations for a new Soviet governmentality that acknowledged the intrinsic uncertainty of future development. The emphasis on uncertainty-but also the need for more data that could freely circulate between different branches of government and hence…
Policy change as institutional work: Introducing cultural and creative industries into cultural policy
Purpose Policy change is frequently framed as resulting from governmental strategy based on explicit preferences, rational decision making and consecutive and aligned implementation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical perspective of institutional work as an alternative approach to understanding policy change, and investigates the construction of resources needed to perform such work. Design/methodology/approach The paper is b…
Cold War modernists: Art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy
Greg Barnhisel’s new book Cold War Modernists is an important contribution to several academic fields, ranging from cultural diplomacy studies and cultural history to Cold War history. Cold War Mod
Soviet Policy Sciences and Earth System Governmentality
This article introduces non-Western policy sciences into the burgeoning field of the intellectual history of Earth system governmentality, a field that studies the ideas, institutions and material systems that enable action at the global scale. It outlines the rise of debates on the idea of the governability of the global biosphere in late Soviet Russia (1970s–1980s), focusing particularly on the extension of Vladimir Vernadskii's famous theory o…
Boundary Objects of Communism. Assembling the Soviet Past in Lithuanian Museums
Dans cet article, je défends l'idée que la perspective théorique de l'objet-frontière peut utilement enrichir les études concernant la présentation du passé soviétique dans les musées. Je m'appuie sur ce concept développé par Susan Lei Star et James R. Griesemer pour montrer comment différents objets et structures matérielles sont attribués à l'ère communiste, et assemblés à la façon d'un patrimoine culturel puis mis en scène grâce à l'expertise …
Scenescapes: How qualities of place shape social life
In Scenescapes Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark have set an ambitious goal. The book seeks to analytically capture the complexity of the way in which concrete localities shape different
Systems Analysis as Infrastructural Knowledge
This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of "infrastructural knowledge"-that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge-that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific experts in the Soviet Union. Systems expertise is largely missing from existing work on the history of Soviet infrastructure. The article analyzes the development of govern…
Chernobyl as Technoscience
This essay considers the TV miniseries Chernobyl (HBO, 2019) to engage in a wider debate on the social and institutional production of techno-science. It explores whether the series resonates with the existing narratives and interpretations of Soviet technoscience in scholarly historiography. The author argues that although the series downplays important aspects of Soviet history, such as international knowledge transfer, it successfully demonstr…
Culture Unbound Vol. 12 Editorial
Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: The endless frontier
The title of this special issue borrows from Vannevar Bush’s book Science: The Endless Frontier (1945), an influential treatise on the role of science in national welfare that paved the way for bot
Nuclear Power as Cultural Heritage in Russia
This article maps the presentation of nuclear power as valuable cultural heritage in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Drawing on the analysis of archival documents, exhibitions, site visits and interviews, it argues that the nuclear cultural heritage-making that is taking place in Russia is not limited to self-promotion by the nuclear industry but is shaped by different professional and societal groups seeking to define their identity and gain reco…
AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation
This article explores the practice of pre-empting controversy as an example of the wicked problem of cultural participation in the digital media.Drawing on science and technology studies (STS), research into the history of cybernetics, artificial intelligence (AI), and policy studies, it argues that the ongoing digital transformation and the expansion of the algorithmic public sphere does not solve but amplifies the problem of cultural participat…
The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: Layering the past
This article explores nuclear cultural heritage-making as a spatial activity in the context of nuclear secrecy and restricted access. It focuses on the closed city Sarov, formerly Arzamas-16, the birthplace of Soviet nuclear weapons. Since the end of the Cold War, Sarov has cultivated its image as a heritage site, opening a Museum of Nuclear Weapons, pioneering nuclear scientists and local history, as well as reconstructing religious sites. Based…
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