Publications
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Generations in Estonia: Contemporary Perspectives on Turbulent Times
(2016)
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the ...
The Dynamics of Cultural Borders
(2016)
This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and ...
Синтактические исследования [Sintaktičeskie issledovanija]
(2015)
Studies in Syntactics. The purpose of this book is to explore the structure of the text as such using a metalanguage derived from quantitative poetics. Grigori Utgof’s thesis is that texts should be studied statistically. ...
Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives
(2016)
The book raises semiotic questions of human–animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with ...
Estonian Approaches to Culture Theory
(2014)
The fourth volume in the Approaches to Culture Theory series is a contemporary Estonian anthology in culture theory. Most of the authors are members of the research groups of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory: ...
Historical Memory versus Communist Identity
(2014)
This collection consists of articles on the subjects addressed by the research conference “The Shaping of Identity and Personality under Communist Rule: History in the Service of Totalitarian Regimes in Eastern Europe”, ...
Things in Culture, Culture in Things
(2013)
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, ...
The Curving Mirror of Time
(2013)
This volume attempts to create a ‘relief map’ of temporalities in Estonian newspapers over different periods of time. The special focus is on binding the empirical analysis to the theoretical and methodological discussions ...
Archaeological Research in Estonia 1865–2005
(2006)
This volume is dedicated to the historiography and analysis of the present state of Estonian archaeology. Part I (articles by Valter Lang and Marge Konsa) provides a review of the general development of archaeological ...
Eesti ühiskond kiirenevas ajas = Estonian society in an accelerating time
(2017)
The book examines the transformation of the life-world in the context of the rapidly changing Estonian society. The authors pose three main questions to be discussed throughout the book: What has happened in the Estonian ...
Researching Estonian Transformation
(2020)
This collective monograph offers a reflexive review of the transformations in Estonian society, particularly by using the lens of social morphogenetic analysis developed by Margaret Archer and her co-workers. Based on ...
Hortus Floridus
(2024)
Classical studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia) have had several beginnings. As a separate academic discipline, classical philology was introduced to the university curriculum by Professor Karl Morgenstern right ...
Quattuor Lustra
(2012)
The papers in this volume have been gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of classical studies at the University of Tartu (1990). The subjects pursued range from Hittite and Homeric etymology ...
The Paradox of Power
(2024)
This volume interrogates the paradox of Russian power, revealing how Russia’s war against Ukraine has simultaneously exposed and concealed elements of strategic fragility and systemic resilience. Russia’s failure to achieve ...
Perpetual Conflict: Russia and the Struggle for European Security
(2026)
The 2026 edition of the BALTDEFCOL’s Conference on Russia Papers examines the structural confrontation between Russia and Europe and its implications for the continent’s political order and capacity for strategic action. ...
Baltic Orthodoxy
(2025)
This edited volume that examines Orthodox Christianity in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, with additional perspectives from Finland and Belarus. The book adopts a microhistorical approach, focusing on everyday religious ...