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The book, based on research results from a three-year study of parliamentary and media debates in Latvia, analyses the discourses of Latvian politicians and the media about nation, citizenship, cultural diversity, history and the nation-state. This is the first large-scale study of political debates in a Baltic State from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Separate chapters, by researchers from Canada, Latvia, Lithuania and the UK, analyse the intersections between national identity construction, national mythmaking, concepts of citizenship, journalistic action, press ownership and questions of control of political and media discourses. All of these have impact on the fundamental questions of the relationship between individuals and the state. The authors conclude that even after the accession to the European Union in 2004, political pressures in Latvia, as also frequently on the political Right in other EU countries, promote ethnic membership as the guiding factor of state-building.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Shrinking Citizenship
• Subtitle: Discursive Practices that Limit Democratic Participation in Latvian Politics
• Author: Maria Golubeva, Robert Gould
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 197
• EAN: 9789042031333
• ISBN: 9789042031333
• ID: 09012474
• Publisher: Brill
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 147 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2010

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