| title: | Places of Memory and Cultures of Remembrance in the 21st Century Estonia |
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| reg no: | ETF6687 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
5.9. Social Anthropology and Ethnology |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | TU Faculty of Philosophy |
| head of project: | Ene Kõresaar |
| duration: | 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2009 |
| description: | The study focuses on places of memory and cultures of remembrance in the 21th century Estonia. Places of memory are broadly understood as cultural phenomena that are collectively and consciously or unconsciously linked to the national past and identity. The places of memory selected for this research are: 1.events of national significance (the IIWW, ESSR), 2. culture phenomena (tradition), 3. institutions (museum). The main question posed in this study is about practices, system and logic of re-creating these places of memory as well as their interrelatedness through national history, (political) culture and contemporary global conceptual network. Simultaneously, it is a question of cultures of remembrance, i.e. plurality of relations and representations of the past. The study of specific cultures of remembrance focuses on questions of how society is “charged with memory”, what are the interests of different groups, what are the techniques and ways of representation of the past. Memory and culture are discoursively understood in this study. Methodologically the study proceeds from the theory of communicative and cultural memory of A.&J. Assmann as well as its elaborations within cultural and social studies. The main sources of this study are ethnographic and biographical material collected by the ENM, EOAM and ECHA as well as printed public texts. New sources are to be created via ethnographic fieldwork using methods of biographical and thematic interviews, unobtrusive observation of museum visitors etc. The source material created during the project will be delivered over to the archives of ENM, EOAM and ECHA to make them available for the wider circle of researchers. Interim results will be presented at conferences and seminars. Articles resulting from the project are published in Estonian and international publications. In the middle of the project a collection of articles will be published that introduces current results of this research project and its international cooperation. The project results with the publication of doctoral dissertations and a monograph. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Kirsti Jõesalu | |||
| 2. | Ene Kõresaar | Tartu Ülikool | ||
| 3. | Merike Lang | |||
| 4. | Kristel Rattus | |||