Postcolonial scholarship has made a significant contribution by highlighting and critically assessing the liminal, inbetween positionality of Eastern Europe, which has contributed to the neglect of voices and experiences from the region. Discourses that construct and reproduce the notion of Eastern Europe “catching up” have been examined in historical, anthropological, and sociological contexts, as well as across various fields, including international relations, memory studies, democratization, and European integration. This theme section explores some of these intricacies through the case studies of Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia.
By
Lelde Luika
December 18, 2025
Views of the past are constantly being revised, with the impact of different political and social occurrences generating new narratives and ways of interpreting history. This essay focuses on three cases of recent spatial reconfiguration in Estonia, all demonstrating how contrasting memoryscapes are perceived, especially after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since then, the Soviet memorials, symbols and murals in public space in Estonia have fallen under intense scrutiny as remnants and symbols of the Soviet regime. Russian aggression towards Ukraine seemed to reopen the wound of the most recent trauma. At the same time, the legacies of more remote oppressors, the Baltic Germans, has taken on a new meaning as a more neutral and even positive heritage. With three examples of spatial transformation, the essay examines the choices made on treating the layers of Estonian history and raises questions about how current decisions could shape our perception in the future.
Essay by
Triin Reidla and Anu Soojärv
December 18, 2025
Abstract [en] In the 1790s, many post-Kantian German philosophers attempted to lay a new foundation for the historiography of philosophy. […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] In the classical Western aesthetic tradition, from Aristotle onwards, ’nature’ and ’art’ are conceptualised in relation to each […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This thesis examines the persistent political fragmentation of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the role of the […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This dissertation takes as its focus the question of credibility in sustainable marketing: why it is both necessary […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This thesis unpacks the empirical puzzle that banks suspected of involvement in money laundering may nevertheless be deemed […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This thesis argues that the Baltic Sea region was shaped intellectually, politically and geographically during the period 1914–1945. […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] We, the Expelled is a study of historical experiences communicated by the Polish Jews who came to Sweden as […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] Since its inception in the late 1980s, the Turkish black metal scene has gone through significant changes. Whereas […]
By
Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Issue 2025, 4: 
Baltic Worlds covers; the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, CentralAsia, Caucasus and the Balkan area.