On the Chemistry of Liberty  

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Mincyte, Diana

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 2 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 40-46.
Topik: Chemistry; Liberty; small lives
Fulltext: 40CS21.pdf (202.76KB)

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This essay is an autoethnographic attempt to bring together personal experiences, memories, and historical accounts about the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1944 and the overthrow of the regime by the nationalist movement in 1990. It weaves together visions, recollections, and stories in search for how such abstract notions as freedom, progress, and democracy intersect with "small lives." Its central concern is to understand why social movements, state institutions, and new technologies grow to reproduce social inequalities and, by doing so, fail in their promise to bring freedom to the general population. This essay arrives at the conclusion that there is no universal definition of liberty nor a single institutional means to free the public. It places the agency in the hands of the individual and argues that freedom as such exists only when we negotiate, search, and believe in the possibility for a better world.

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