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Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Russian Federation's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories and transferred to Russia. On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court officially recognized these actions as a war crime.
Ayşegül Aydıngün   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
wiley   +1 more source

Metarepresentation, tense, aspect and narratives: the case of Behdini-Kurdish and Estonian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper looks at three sets of data, two from Behdini-Kurdish and one from Estonian, where a metarepresentational use analysis enhances the linguistic analysis of certain linguistic forms.
Unger, Christoph
core  

Studies in Baltic and other languages

open access: yes, 2021
Preface -- Tabula gratulatoria -- List of selected publications by Axel Holvoet -- Is Lithuanian a polysynthetic language? / Peter Arkadiev -- Connective negation and negative concord in Balto-Slavic / Johan van der Auwera, Motoki Nomachi and Olga Krasnoukhova -- Adjacent vs.
openaire   +1 more source

The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

Book Translations As Idea Flows: The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations, we show that while translations between Communist languages ...
Isabelle Sin, Ran Abramitzky
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Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Extensive multilingualism is one of the most important and fundamental principles of the European Union. However, a large number of official languages (currently 23) hinders communication and imposes substantial financial and legal costs.
Fidrmuc, Jan   +2 more
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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

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