Dace Bula
Biographic Data
| ID | 4047975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dace Bula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dace |
| FAMILY NAME | Bula |
| SIGNATURE | BULA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Latvia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5418-4648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sola(no)stalgic Suburbs: Transcorporeality of Narrated Dwelling
The article draws on personal narratives as a substantial source for the study of subjective emotionalities involved in the experience of dwelling. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the neighborhoods bordering the Port of Riga, this study situates oral eco-narratives at the intersection of perspectives derived from posthumanism, post-phenomenology, and affective ecocriticism. It focuses on the centrality of sensory impressions – sounds, smells, …
Flood Stories: Agency of Water and Relationality of Narrative
Based on flood stories from the lower Daugava neighborhoods in Riga, this article seeks to explore the relational capacity of environmental narrative. Reverberating ideas of recent posthumanist and new materialist origin, it aims to bring to the fore personal oral accounts as a source for phenomenological inquiry into how people experience the agency of matter and how they narratively build relationships with their environment. I argue that perso…
Celebrating March 8: A failed attempt at de-Sovietization
Despite its international history of gender equality activism, Women’s Day in the independent Baltic states in the twenty-first century resembles the way in which the day was celebrated in the Soviet past. The ‘festival of gender’ continues its existence, only slowly giving way to sporadic expressions of emancipatory ideas. It survives despite efforts in the three Baltic states to get rid of ‘everything Soviet’ during the process of regaining fre…
A Complete Edition of an Oral Tradition: Text Selection Practices in the History of Publishing Latvian Folk Songs
This article addresses the history of publishing folklore texts—particularly the attempts at creating all-inclusive publications that would represent an oral tradition in its entirety. Despite the quest for comprehensiveness, these attempts have always entailed the need to be selective in order to draw textual boundaries within the unbounded, diverse folk singing repertory. The focus of this study is on the text selection principles applied by tw…
Narratives of Unwanted Change: Nostalgia in a Latvian Former Fishing Village
Like authenticity or identity, nostalgia may be claimed to be a founding notion of folklore studies. Yet, the uneasy legacy of romanticizing the past, critiqued as the epistemological bias of the discipline, seems to hinder folklorists from participating in current interdisciplinary trends that seek to redeem nostalgia as a critical, creative, and productive mode of thought rather than a sentimental, distorted, and conservative spatiotemporal per…
Flood Stories: Agency of Water and Relationality of Narrative
Based on flood stories from the lower Daugava neighborhoods in Riga, this article seeks to explore the relational capacity of environmental narrative. Reverberating ideas of recent posthumanist and new materialist origin, it aims to bring to the fore personal oral accounts as a source for phenomenological inquiry into how people experience the agency of matter and how they narratively build relationships with their environment. I argue that perso…
Narratives of Unwanted Change: Nostalgia in a Latvian Former Fishing Village
Like authenticity or identity, nostalgia may be claimed to be a founding notion of folklore studies. Yet, the uneasy legacy of romanticizing the past, critiqued as the epistemological bias of the discipline, seems to hinder folklorists from participating in current interdisciplinary trends that seek to redeem nostalgia as a critical, creative, and productive mode of thought rather than a sentimental, distorted, and conservative spatiotemporal per…
A Complete Edition of an Oral Tradition: Text Selection Practices in the History of Publishing Latvian Folk Songs
This article addresses the history of publishing folklore texts—particularly the attempts at creating all-inclusive publications that would represent an oral tradition in its entirety. Despite the quest for comprehensiveness, these attempts have always entailed the need to be selective in order to draw textual boundaries within the unbounded, diverse folk singing repertory. The focus of this study is on the text selection principles applied by tw…
Celebrating March 8: A failed attempt at de-Sovietization
Despite its international history of gender equality activism, Women’s Day in the independent Baltic states in the twenty-first century resembles the way in which the day was celebrated in the Soviet past. The ‘festival of gender’ continues its existence, only slowly giving way to sporadic expressions of emancipatory ideas. It survives despite efforts in the three Baltic states to get rid of ‘everything Soviet’ during the process of regaining fre…
Flood Stories: Agency of Water and Relationality of Narrative
Based on flood stories from the lower Daugava neighborhoods in Riga, this article seeks to explore the relational capacity of environmental narrative. Reverberating ideas of recent posthumanist and new materialist origin, it aims to bring to the fore personal oral accounts as a source for phenomenological inquiry into how people experience the agency of matter and how they narratively build relationships with their environment. I argue that perso…
Sola(no)stalgic Suburbs: Transcorporeality of Narrated Dwelling
The article draws on personal narratives as a substantial source for the study of subjective emotionalities involved in the experience of dwelling. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the neighborhoods bordering the Port of Riga, this study situates oral eco-narratives at the intersection of perspectives derived from posthumanism, post-phenomenology, and affective ecocriticism. It focuses on the centrality of sensory impressions – sounds, smells, …
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