Author: Auers Daunis
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 1469-9907
Source: National Identities, Vol.15, Iss.2, 2013-06, pp. : 125-137
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Abstract
Since the late 1990s, Latvia has increasingly made claim on the intellectual and cultural heritage of Sir Isaiah Berlin, Mark Rothko, and Sergei Eisenstein. This article adopts a social constructivist approach in comparing and contrasting the role of intellectuals in framing nineteenth-century national identities and their contemporary instrumentalization as tools in the construction of national identity. The article then considers the “seizure of Berlin, Rothko, and Eisenstein as “Latvians, arguing that this process has been undertaken for both international and domestic purposes-to socialize and integrate Latvia with the West, and to promote domestic value change.
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