Ilze Kačāne
Biographic Data
| ID | 72494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilze Kačāne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilze |
| FAMILY NAME | Kačāne |
| SIGNATURE | KAČĀNE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Daugavpils University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2754-158X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Coping with Trauma through Christian Holiday Observances in the Testimonies of Latvian Deportees
This qualitative research aims to analyse testimonies collected by Daugavpils University (DU) between 2003 and 2024 and stored at the Oral History Centre of DU Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (Latvia). This collection of more than 1,200 records includes 193 life stories of Latvian deportees who in the 1940s were arrested and transported to the most remote and disadvantaged regions of the Soviet Union. Because many deportees were not d…
Transformations in Midsummer’s Eve Celebrations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Latvia
Celebrations are constantly exposed to gradual transformation processes promoted by diverse historical, political and social factors. This qualitative study is based on data from semi-structured interviews conducted in the southeastern region of Latvia, Latgale. It analyses transformations in the celebration of the summer solstice festival -Midsummer's Eve (Ji) -from the synchronic (at a specific point in time) and diachronic (through different p…
Youth and Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Intelligence in Latvia, Spain and Turkey
The article is based on the data obtained from the qualitative research on intergenerational dynamics of cultural socialization representing 31 family cases in Latvia, Catalonia (Spain), and Turkey. It is aimed at exploring in what ways young people’s (age range 14–25) cultural intelligence is shaped and how the degrees of openness to inter-group communication are developed. The article focuses on the everyday interactions of young people around …
Social Connection when Physically Isolated
Digital (video) calls have become a significant tool during the challenging times marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The article focuses on the perceived functionality of video calls for maintaining social contacts and overcoming loneliness in celebrating family festivities limited by physical distance policies. The qualitative study conducted at the end of 2021 in Latvia and Spain examines families’ cultural socialisation via digital tools and, ba…
The Family as a Site of Consocial Learning
This article explores the family as an educational environment and space for the intergenerational exchange of knowledge. Focusing on the process of cultural socialization as viewed against the currently popular “culture wars” it employs the concept of consociality, which is aimed at grasping the diversity and unpredictability of human interactions, and has been recently rejuvenated by Ulf Hannerz. Investigating the consocial character of learnin…
Transformations of Old Believer Wedding Rites in Latvia
The wedding 2 is an integral part of family life. The ways in which it is organised can differ not only between representatives of different religious groups, but also between members of the same denomination. By applying cultural-historical, ethnographic and qualitative data processing method, the paper focuses on transformations in Old Believer wedding rites between the first half of the 20th century and the present. Analysis of interviews cond…
Ethno-Religious Minority in the Borderland
Territorially scattered or dispersed minorities have been representing certain realities of political geography, therefore the risk of ethnic or religious conflicts due to rapid globalization and cosmopolitanism tendencies demands a search for new conflict-reducing mechanisms. The Old Believersâ community of Latvia, an ethnic-denominational group within the Russian ethnos, presents a sustainable form of the countryâ s political, ethnic, cultural,…
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Ethno-Religious Minority in the Borderland
Territorially scattered or dispersed minorities have been representing certain realities of political geography, therefore the risk of ethnic or religious conflicts due to rapid globalization and cosmopolitanism tendencies demands a search for new conflict-reducing mechanisms. The Old Believersâ community of Latvia, an ethnic-denominational group within the Russian ethnos, presents a sustainable form of the countryâ s political, ethnic, cultural,…
The Family as a Site of Consocial Learning
This article explores the family as an educational environment and space for the intergenerational exchange of knowledge. Focusing on the process of cultural socialization as viewed against the currently popular “culture wars” it employs the concept of consociality, which is aimed at grasping the diversity and unpredictability of human interactions, and has been recently rejuvenated by Ulf Hannerz. Investigating the consocial character of learnin…
Transformations of Old Believer Wedding Rites in Latvia
The wedding 2 is an integral part of family life. The ways in which it is organised can differ not only between representatives of different religious groups, but also between members of the same denomination. By applying cultural-historical, ethnographic and qualitative data processing method, the paper focuses on transformations in Old Believer wedding rites between the first half of the 20th century and the present. Analysis of interviews cond…
Transformations in Midsummer’s Eve Celebrations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Latvia
Celebrations are constantly exposed to gradual transformation processes promoted by diverse historical, political and social factors. This qualitative study is based on data from semi-structured interviews conducted in the southeastern region of Latvia, Latgale. It analyses transformations in the celebration of the summer solstice festival -Midsummer's Eve (Ji) -from the synchronic (at a specific point in time) and diachronic (through different p…
Youth and Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Intelligence in Latvia, Spain and Turkey
The article is based on the data obtained from the qualitative research on intergenerational dynamics of cultural socialization representing 31 family cases in Latvia, Catalonia (Spain), and Turkey. It is aimed at exploring in what ways young people’s (age range 14–25) cultural intelligence is shaped and how the degrees of openness to inter-group communication are developed. The article focuses on the everyday interactions of young people around …
Social Connection when Physically Isolated
Digital (video) calls have become a significant tool during the challenging times marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The article focuses on the perceived functionality of video calls for maintaining social contacts and overcoming loneliness in celebrating family festivities limited by physical distance policies. The qualitative study conducted at the end of 2021 in Latvia and Spain examines families’ cultural socialisation via digital tools and, ba…
Coping with Trauma through Christian Holiday Observances in the Testimonies of Latvian Deportees
This qualitative research aims to analyse testimonies collected by Daugavpils University (DU) between 2003 and 2024 and stored at the Oral History Centre of DU Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (Latvia). This collection of more than 1,200 records includes 193 life stories of Latvian deportees who in the 1940s were arrested and transported to the most remote and disadvantaged regions of the Soviet Union. Because many deportees were not d…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Cultural diversity (2 works)