https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/6 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:54:52 GMT 2026-04-19T15:54:52Z https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109383 Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered Woodworth, Bradley D.; Davoliute, Violeta; Staliunas, Darius This collected volume offers an original perspective on the Baltic region by examining the intricate relationships between its diverse ethnic groups from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Rather than focusing solely on national narratives or comparisons of historical development, the book analyzes ethnic relations through the lenses of identity, governance, empire, and violence. The nearly constant redrawing of geographic borders and boundaries among communities during this period destabilized fixed identities, generating novel, hybrid ways of self-identification along with a hardening of oppositions. Innovative forms of coexistence came with violent, sometimes genocidal conflicts. The contributors explore topics such as evolving senses of belonging, the impact of imperial and Soviet rule, instances of cooperation and conflict, and the legacies of historical trauma. By incorporating new sources and interdisciplinary approaches, they update traditional understandings of nations and nationalism in the Baltic region and provide insights relevant to similar regions. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109383 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109382 Willem de Rooij - Dirk Valkenburg Fatah-Black, Karwan; de Rooij, Willem Amsterdam painter Dirk Valkenburg (1675–1721) created early depictions of Indigenous and enslaved people on Surinamese sugar plantations, as well as ornate hunting still lifes and portraits of colonial elites. Edited by Willem de Rooij and Karwan Fatah Black, this volume combines a catalogue raisonné developed in collaboration with the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague – and a critical reader featuring newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars. It is conceived as a pendant to De Rooij’s installation Valkenburg, which opened at the Centraal Museum Utrecht in September 2025. This book and the exhibition together invite reflection on how 18th-century visual culture helped normalize colonial ideology. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109382 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109381 Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives De Jong, Sara This volume invites teachers and students in gender and women’s studies to engage with the library not as an instrument for knowledge, but as a subject and object of knowledge in its own right. The authors and editors had three specific aims. Firstly, to highlight how Gender Studies and the institutions and practices that preserve and disseminate feminist knowledge are historically and systematically intertwined. Secondly, the necessity to reflect on the symbolic meaning and practical institutionalization of libraries and archives as they are undergoing profound transformations under the influence of new (technological) developments; finally, to engage with the question of how these transformations give way to new ways of producing, preserving and disseminating feminist knowledge through practices situated between the force fields of cultural and academic institutions, material and virtual culture, and the collective imaginary.This book is a part of the series Teaching with Gender, European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms, jointly published with ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109381 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109363 Speculative Cartographies Czemiel, Grzegorz Grzegorz Czemiel examines ways in which cartography has been imaginatively reclaimed in philosophy, literature and art to develop new ontologies that challenge unreflective anthropocentrism and capitalist-driven globalization. Speculative cartographies strive to account for material processes occurring across various spatiotemporal scales. In effect, they open alternative visions of the global, situating humanity in the planetary context and responding to today’s environmental crises. Exploratory map-makers enquire about the relationship between people and Earth, transforming notions of humanism and nature in the process. Such efforts contribute to the development of a materialist cartographical imagination necessary to interrogate capitalist realism and envision sustainable futures. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://oapen-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12657/109363 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z