In the late 1980s the Latvian Culture Foundation began to collect and publish people’s diaries. After the restoration of independence idea about collecting people’s life stories was transferred, together with its initiators, to the Institute of …
«A family-type environment» in welfare policy of Latvia has been a guiding principle of organizing care for out-of-family-care children. Within the framework of deinstitutionalization commenced in 2015, it is also the main target for reforms in the …
This paper approaches Romany memory culture through life stories and is based on results and conceptualizations from the study of biographical narratives and life experiences obtained within various ethnic and cultural settings in Latvia. It explores …
Life history method gives the voice to the individual, offers an opportunity to express their interpretation of individual and social events. The study identify the main reasons why Latvia people choose to make their homes in Sweden.
Latviešu folkloras kā ieražu tiesību avota pētniecība ir visai komplicēta. Latvijā ieražu tiesības nekad nav tikušas pilnībā kodificētas. Arī latviešu folkloras materiāls neļauj spriest par kādu vienotu tiesību sistēmu senatnē. No apjomīgā krājuma …
Biographies demonstrate a variety of trajectories, resources and opportunities, choices and acting strategies. It may be reflected through life stories, which are studied like personal experience narratives developed along the master scripts and …
From June 25 to 29, four researchers of the project «Narrative perspectives on intergenerational transmission of memory» (finansed by the Latvian Science Council) participated in the 13th Baltic Studies Conference in Europe «Baltic Solidarity», which took place in Gdansk, Poland.
Rīkotāji - Centre for Work and Employment, The University of Greenwich/ Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London / Feminist Research Group, University of East London / Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education.
Ieskats simpozija norisē. Diskusijas. No kreisās: Edmunds Šūpulis, Maija Krūmiņa, Ginta Elksne, Kaspars Zellis