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- Title
WHO IS TELLING IT TO WHOM? ECONOMICAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS FOR NATIONAL NARATIVE IN AFTER-POST-COMMUNIST LITHUANIA.
- Authors
ŠVARPLYS, ANDRIUS
- Abstract
It seems the need to explore the transformation of post-communist Lithuania is expired since the achieved membership in the EU and NATO is considered to be the firm evidence of successful post-communist transition. At the same time, Lithuania has seemingly entrenched its geopolitical orientation that has been based on the national narrative of "belonging to Europe". Nevertheless, some socio-economical, political and cultural tendencies that have emerged in the last decade newly let to raise the question of national narrative. The elites' consolidation in apparently consolidated democracy that produce the socio-economical discrepancies, a low political confidence of citizens and huge rate of emigration a normal condition in after-post-communist period? Or whether some features of postmodern society like consumerism, political skepticism, or simulation of social contract do not contribute to the natural fragmentation of the national narrative? Anyway, this is not without consequences for the success or failure of the national narrative, because since Sąjūdis times, both the "narrator" (the state, elites) and the "listener" (society, citizens) have changed significantly.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; NARRATIVES; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; COMMUNISM; DEMOCRACY; POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Darbai ir Dienos, 2013, Issue 60, p265
- ISSN
1392-0588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2335-8769.60.13