Artūrs Pokšāns
Biographic Data
| ID | 187046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artūrs Pokšāns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artūrs |
| FAMILY NAME | Pokšāns |
| SIGNATURE | POKŠĀNS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Latvia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0616-8739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Encounters Between Kindness and Digitalization
The current drive towards digitalization means that more services in Latvia are becoming centralized and moving online. This changes the relationship between the state and its older citizens as the accessibility of services shifts towards those who can engage with these digital tools or live close to centers of local or state government. Using participatory action research (PAR) with older people as co-researchers, we explore how challenges arisi…
Ethical Citizenship and Contested Notions of Aging During the Covid-19 State of Emergency in Latvia
COVID-19 governance and its related forms of risk perception produced tensions between emergent and pre-existing understandings and practices of aging. This has resulted both in novel forms of biopolitical control and creative forms of resistance and practices of intergenerational care. This paper uses the concept of ethical citizenship to explain how older adults saw their role in the collective project of defeating COVID-19 despite partly being…
A Post-Socialist Residential School and the Continuum of Violence
This article* discusses the tolerance of violence. Specifically, it explores the way violence is enacted and perpetuated in residential education in Latvia. The article explores the perception and experience of violence in these schools by combining ethnographic fieldwork and autoethnographic data. Violence within the institution coalesces around three main aspects of experience: violence as necessary for regulating relationships, the embodiment …
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Ethical Citizenship and Contested Notions of Aging During the Covid-19 State of Emergency in Latvia
COVID-19 governance and its related forms of risk perception produced tensions between emergent and pre-existing understandings and practices of aging. This has resulted both in novel forms of biopolitical control and creative forms of resistance and practices of intergenerational care. This paper uses the concept of ethical citizenship to explain how older adults saw their role in the collective project of defeating COVID-19 despite partly being…
A Post-Socialist Residential School and the Continuum of Violence
This article* discusses the tolerance of violence. Specifically, it explores the way violence is enacted and perpetuated in residential education in Latvia. The article explores the perception and experience of violence in these schools by combining ethnographic fieldwork and autoethnographic data. Violence within the institution coalesces around three main aspects of experience: violence as necessary for regulating relationships, the embodiment …
Encounters Between Kindness and Digitalization
The current drive towards digitalization means that more services in Latvia are becoming centralized and moving online. This changes the relationship between the state and its older citizens as the accessibility of services shifts towards those who can engage with these digital tools or live close to centers of local or state government. Using participatory action research (PAR) with older people as co-researchers, we explore how challenges arisi…
Psychology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work)