N Klumbyte
Biographic Data
| ID | 9747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Klumbyte |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Klumbyte |
| SIGNATURE | KLUMBYTE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1758-7023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ukrainian War Humor and Civic Activism in 2022
The 2022 war in Ukraine has produced the biggest virtual humor archive in the history of wars. We argue that Ukrainian war humor is a form of civic activism in the name of Ukraine’s sovereignty. This civic activism is defined by resistance, solidarity, vigilance, and dedication to victory. The war humor circulates locally as well as on a global stage. It expresses the government’s positions and the people’s voices and empowers those affected by t…
Rožytė – Vilniaus legenda: Laisvė, mados estetika ir mistika Vidutės Gumbytės Vilniaus istorijoje
Vidutė Gumbytė (1949–2021), who was known as Rožytė (Rosie) by residents of the city, strolled the streets of Vilnius for almost five decades. Her story was unique, her style of fashion was eccentric, her lifestyle was idiosyncratic. In this article, I analyse Vidutė Gumbytė-Rožytė’s story as a Vilnius legend. I argue that Vilnius residents were fascinated by her freedom from social norms, her unusual sense of fashion, and the mystique that surro…
Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine
In the 1990s, Lithuania’s sovereignty politics was defined by its departure from the Soviet authoritarian regime and the transition to democracy, culminating in its integration into the European Union and NATO in 2004. Since Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, Lithuania’s sovereignty has been threatened by Russia’s revisionist politics. Lithuania espoused strong support for Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 invasion, voicing the most radical positio…
Goddess in disguise: Transsociality and the aesthetics of living
Rosie used to say that there was nobody else like her. Her idiosyncratic way of living was an aesthetic recreation of the social that was partly informed by normative sociality while transgressing many aspects of it. She was an eccentric street fashion artist of Vilnius whose world and home were populated by animals and beautiful things. She spent a lot of time on the road. I introduce the concept of transsociality to analyze an idiosyncratic way…
Sovereignty and political belonging in post-Soviet Lithuania: Ethnicity, migration, and historical justice
In this article, we review the history of building a post-Soviet sovereign state in Lithuania by institutionalizing social and political difference of some groups in laws, policy, and public discourse. We argue that an exclusive inclusion of national (ethnic) minorities and migrants have played an important role in defining political belonging to a post-Soviet sovereign state. Language and citizenship laws and policies have been the major sites t…
Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier
A war frontier in Lithuania was engendered by the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March of 2014 and the beginning of the undeclared war in eastern Ukraine. This essay explores how the new war frontier emerged in Lithuania, becoming an integral part of the public sphere and civic life. I argue that the war frontier is a social institution of sovereign uncertainty, which engenders divisive politics of historical justice, protectio…
Bipolinio istorinio teisingumo struktūros ir politinė atskirtis. Lietuvos rusakalbių prisiminimai apie Antrąjį pasaulinį karą Lietuvos ir Rusijos istorijos politikos kontekste
only abstract in English; full article and abstract in Lithuanian] In Lithuania, the politics of history center on Lithuania's Soviet occupation and post-war resistance, while in Russia the focus is on the USSR's victory in WWII and the USSR's role in the liberation of Europe from fascism. I argue that the politics of history in Lithuania and Russia create mutually exclusive, institutionalized, bipolar historical structures, according to which ju…
Of power and laughter: Carnivalesque politics and moral citizenship in Lithuania
During Lithuania's 2008 parliamentary elections, National Resurrection Party members dressed up as vampires, insane people, criminals, and prostitutes to gain people's votes. They mocked the state and laughed at political elites and electoral politics. I argue that the 2008 electoral carnivalesque was a politics of becoming, a fluid and open-ended process that engaged communities of despair and promoted moral citizenship through laughter. It was …
Political Intimacy: Power, Laughter, and Coexistence in Late Soviet Lithuania
This article explores intersections between power, subjectivity, and laughter by focusing on Šluota ( The Broom), a humor and satire journal published by the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party during late socialism (1970s to mid-1980s). In Lithuania, while the official newspapers and journals were commonly distrusted, The Broom was perceived as a grassroots media. In this article, the author asks how officially sanctioned sociali…
Europe and Its Fragments: Europeanization, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Provinciality in Lithuania
With a focus on Gintaras Beresnevičius's book The Making of an Empire (2003) and the marketing and consumption of "Soviet" sausages, this article explores the rise of national ideologies that promote an "eastern" and "Soviet" identity in Lithuania. Both during the nationalist movement against the Soviet Union and later in the 1990s and 2000s, the west and Europe were seen as sites of prestige, power, and goodness. Recently the reinvented "east" a…
Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania
Keywords: nostalgiapost-Sovietpolitical historyalterityworkmoney Notes Notes 1 Goodbye, Lenin! at the same time is an ironic and utopian film. See Boyer (2006 Boyer, D. 2006. Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany. Public Culture, 18(2): 361–81. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). 2 Nostalgia for socialism and for Tito is different in former Yugoslav states. Tanja Petrović holds that the Slovenes express their …
The Soviet Sausage Renaissance
In Lithuania, the first country to secede from the Soviet Union, the termSoviethas been used in public space to refer to the vanished Soviet empire and to experiences of colonization and resistance. However, in 1998, the "Soviet" symbol was successfully revived in the Lithuanian consumer food market as a brand name for meat products-primarily sausages. In this article, I argue that the market is a political arena in which values, ideologies, iden…
Ethnographic Note on Nation: Narratives and Symbols of the Early Post-socialist Nationalism in Lithuania
Tautos naracija ir simbolinis konstravimas Lietuvoje 1988-1991 metais
The aim of the article is to analyze the narratives and the symbols of Lithuanian Sąjūdis (1988-1991). The narratives and the symbols played an important role in building the nation, defined through the symbols such as the 'West' and the 'East', 'democracy', 'civil society' on the one hand and the historical memory on the other. The article discusses their role on the level mobilizing the movement, constructing the idea of the nation and justifyi…
Tradicinės etnografijos mokslinės paradigmos dekonstravimas pomodernioje antropologijoje
The aim of the article is to discuss the historical development of anthropology and to analyze the relationship between the postmodern and modern paradigms of ethnographic study. The author grounds the analysis on a view of postmodern ethnography as a deconstruction of the earlier studies and suggests a notion of creative imagination for understanding the changes in anthropology. The author argues that the postmodern ethnographic study is best un…
The Soviet Sausage Renaissance
In Lithuania, the first country to secede from the Soviet Union, the termSoviethas been used in public space to refer to the vanished Soviet empire and to experiences of colonization and resistance. However, in 1998, the "Soviet" symbol was successfully revived in the Lithuanian consumer food market as a brand name for meat products-primarily sausages. In this article, I argue that the market is a political arena in which values, ideologies, iden…
Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania
Keywords: nostalgiapost-Sovietpolitical historyalterityworkmoney Notes Notes 1 Goodbye, Lenin! at the same time is an ironic and utopian film. See Boyer (2006 Boyer, D. 2006. Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany. Public Culture, 18(2): 361–81. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). 2 Nostalgia for socialism and for Tito is different in former Yugoslav states. Tanja Petrović holds that the Slovenes express their …
Of power and laughter: Carnivalesque politics and moral citizenship in Lithuania
During Lithuania's 2008 parliamentary elections, National Resurrection Party members dressed up as vampires, insane people, criminals, and prostitutes to gain people's votes. They mocked the state and laughed at political elites and electoral politics. I argue that the 2008 electoral carnivalesque was a politics of becoming, a fluid and open-ended process that engaged communities of despair and promoted moral citizenship through laughter. It was …
Political Intimacy: Power, Laughter, and Coexistence in Late Soviet Lithuania
This article explores intersections between power, subjectivity, and laughter by focusing on Šluota ( The Broom), a humor and satire journal published by the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party during late socialism (1970s to mid-1980s). In Lithuania, while the official newspapers and journals were commonly distrusted, The Broom was perceived as a grassroots media. In this article, the author asks how officially sanctioned sociali…
Europe and Its Fragments: Europeanization, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Provinciality in Lithuania
With a focus on Gintaras Beresnevičius's book The Making of an Empire (2003) and the marketing and consumption of "Soviet" sausages, this article explores the rise of national ideologies that promote an "eastern" and "Soviet" identity in Lithuania. Both during the nationalist movement against the Soviet Union and later in the 1990s and 2000s, the west and Europe were seen as sites of prestige, power, and goodness. Recently the reinvented "east" a…
Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier
A war frontier in Lithuania was engendered by the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March of 2014 and the beginning of the undeclared war in eastern Ukraine. This essay explores how the new war frontier emerged in Lithuania, becoming an integral part of the public sphere and civic life. I argue that the war frontier is a social institution of sovereign uncertainty, which engenders divisive politics of historical justice, protectio…
Ethnographic Note on Nation: Narratives and Symbols of the Early Post-socialist Nationalism in Lithuania
Sovereignty and political belonging in post-Soviet Lithuania: Ethnicity, migration, and historical justice
In this article, we review the history of building a post-Soviet sovereign state in Lithuania by institutionalizing social and political difference of some groups in laws, policy, and public discourse. We argue that an exclusive inclusion of national (ethnic) minorities and migrants have played an important role in defining political belonging to a post-Soviet sovereign state. Language and citizenship laws and policies have been the major sites t…
Tradicinės etnografijos mokslinės paradigmos dekonstravimas pomodernioje antropologijoje
The aim of the article is to discuss the historical development of anthropology and to analyze the relationship between the postmodern and modern paradigms of ethnographic study. The author grounds the analysis on a view of postmodern ethnography as a deconstruction of the earlier studies and suggests a notion of creative imagination for understanding the changes in anthropology. The author argues that the postmodern ethnographic study is best un…
Tautos naracija ir simbolinis konstravimas Lietuvoje 1988-1991 metais
The aim of the article is to analyze the narratives and the symbols of Lithuanian Sąjūdis (1988-1991). The narratives and the symbols played an important role in building the nation, defined through the symbols such as the 'West' and the 'East', 'democracy', 'civil society' on the one hand and the historical memory on the other. The article discusses their role on the level mobilizing the movement, constructing the idea of the nation and justifyi…
Ethnographic Note on Nation: Narratives and Symbols of the Early Post-socialist Nationalism in Lithuania
Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania
Keywords: nostalgiapost-Sovietpolitical historyalterityworkmoney Notes Notes 1 Goodbye, Lenin! at the same time is an ironic and utopian film. See Boyer (2006 Boyer, D. 2006. Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany. Public Culture, 18(2): 361–81. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). 2 Nostalgia for socialism and for Tito is different in former Yugoslav states. Tanja Petrović holds that the Slovenes express their …
The Soviet Sausage Renaissance
In Lithuania, the first country to secede from the Soviet Union, the termSoviethas been used in public space to refer to the vanished Soviet empire and to experiences of colonization and resistance. However, in 1998, the "Soviet" symbol was successfully revived in the Lithuanian consumer food market as a brand name for meat products-primarily sausages. In this article, I argue that the market is a political arena in which values, ideologies, iden…
Political Intimacy: Power, Laughter, and Coexistence in Late Soviet Lithuania
This article explores intersections between power, subjectivity, and laughter by focusing on Šluota ( The Broom), a humor and satire journal published by the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party during late socialism (1970s to mid-1980s). In Lithuania, while the official newspapers and journals were commonly distrusted, The Broom was perceived as a grassroots media. In this article, the author asks how officially sanctioned sociali…
Europe and Its Fragments: Europeanization, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Provinciality in Lithuania
With a focus on Gintaras Beresnevičius's book The Making of an Empire (2003) and the marketing and consumption of "Soviet" sausages, this article explores the rise of national ideologies that promote an "eastern" and "Soviet" identity in Lithuania. Both during the nationalist movement against the Soviet Union and later in the 1990s and 2000s, the west and Europe were seen as sites of prestige, power, and goodness. Recently the reinvented "east" a…
Of power and laughter: Carnivalesque politics and moral citizenship in Lithuania
During Lithuania's 2008 parliamentary elections, National Resurrection Party members dressed up as vampires, insane people, criminals, and prostitutes to gain people's votes. They mocked the state and laughed at political elites and electoral politics. I argue that the 2008 electoral carnivalesque was a politics of becoming, a fluid and open-ended process that engaged communities of despair and promoted moral citizenship through laughter. It was …
Bipolinio istorinio teisingumo struktūros ir politinė atskirtis. Lietuvos rusakalbių prisiminimai apie Antrąjį pasaulinį karą Lietuvos ir Rusijos istorijos politikos kontekste
only abstract in English; full article and abstract in Lithuanian] In Lithuania, the politics of history center on Lithuania's Soviet occupation and post-war resistance, while in Russia the focus is on the USSR's victory in WWII and the USSR's role in the liberation of Europe from fascism. I argue that the politics of history in Lithuania and Russia create mutually exclusive, institutionalized, bipolar historical structures, according to which ju…
Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier
A war frontier in Lithuania was engendered by the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March of 2014 and the beginning of the undeclared war in eastern Ukraine. This essay explores how the new war frontier emerged in Lithuania, becoming an integral part of the public sphere and civic life. I argue that the war frontier is a social institution of sovereign uncertainty, which engenders divisive politics of historical justice, protectio…
Sovereignty and political belonging in post-Soviet Lithuania: Ethnicity, migration, and historical justice
In this article, we review the history of building a post-Soviet sovereign state in Lithuania by institutionalizing social and political difference of some groups in laws, policy, and public discourse. We argue that an exclusive inclusion of national (ethnic) minorities and migrants have played an important role in defining political belonging to a post-Soviet sovereign state. Language and citizenship laws and policies have been the major sites t…
Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine
In the 1990s, Lithuania’s sovereignty politics was defined by its departure from the Soviet authoritarian regime and the transition to democracy, culminating in its integration into the European Union and NATO in 2004. Since Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, Lithuania’s sovereignty has been threatened by Russia’s revisionist politics. Lithuania espoused strong support for Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 invasion, voicing the most radical positio…
Goddess in disguise: Transsociality and the aesthetics of living
Rosie used to say that there was nobody else like her. Her idiosyncratic way of living was an aesthetic recreation of the social that was partly informed by normative sociality while transgressing many aspects of it. She was an eccentric street fashion artist of Vilnius whose world and home were populated by animals and beautiful things. She spent a lot of time on the road. I introduce the concept of transsociality to analyze an idiosyncratic way…
Ukrainian War Humor and Civic Activism in 2022
The 2022 war in Ukraine has produced the biggest virtual humor archive in the history of wars. We argue that Ukrainian war humor is a form of civic activism in the name of Ukraine’s sovereignty. This civic activism is defined by resistance, solidarity, vigilance, and dedication to victory. The war humor circulates locally as well as on a global stage. It expresses the government’s positions and the people’s voices and empowers those affected by t…
Rožytė – Vilniaus legenda: Laisvė, mados estetika ir mistika Vidutės Gumbytės Vilniaus istorijoje
Vidutė Gumbytė (1949–2021), who was known as Rožytė (Rosie) by residents of the city, strolled the streets of Vilnius for almost five decades. Her story was unique, her style of fashion was eccentric, her lifestyle was idiosyncratic. In this article, I analyse Vidutė Gumbytė-Rožytė’s story as a Vilnius legend. I argue that Vilnius residents were fascinated by her freedom from social norms, her unusual sense of fashion, and the mystique that surro…
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