Victory Day: Interview with Prof. Paul Goode
Is death near? Interesting interview technique. We are talking on the eve of Victory Day in Russia. What can researchers of Russian patriotism find new in the study of commemorating practices relevant to the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945? Highly ritualized occasions like Victory Day can be deceptively routine, but (as the saying goes) […]
Transnational Death: Project Update
Project Update: Transnational death: practices of death and remembrance in the transnational everyday on the Finnish-Russian border (TraDeBo) “The death is getting nearer day by day” – Paraphrase of the song by Boris Grebenshtshikov The Sky is getting nearer Death in everyday transnational reality. Photo by Kimmo Brandt Following the massive scale invasion of Russian […]