Publications

Books, edited volumes

Refereed academic journal articles

2024 Ukrainian War Humor and Civic Activism in 2022. Nationalities Papers. With Kateryna Yeremieieva. Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2024.

2023 Rožytė—Vilniaus legenda: laisvė, mados estetika ir mistika Vidutės Gumbytės Vilniaus istorijoje. (Rosie as a Vilnius Legend: Freedom, Fashion Aesthetics, and Secrecy in Vidutė Gumbytė’s Vilnius Story). Lietuvos etnologija: socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos 23 (32): 47–79. In Lithuanian.

2022            Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine. Current History 121 (837): 264–270.

2022 Goddess in Disguise: Transsociality and the Aesthetics of Living. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 12 (2): 544–564.

2021           Sovereignty and political belonging in post-Soviet Lithuania: ethnicity, migration, and historical justice. With Kristina Šliavaitė. Journal of Baltic Studies 3.

2019           Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier. Slavic Review 78 (2): 336–347. Part of the Critical Discussion Forum “New War Frontiers and the End of Post-Socialism.”

2017          Bipolinės istorinio teisingumo struktūros ir politinė atskirtis. Lietuvos rusakalbių prisiminimai apie Antrąjį pasaulinį karą Lietuvos ir Rusijos istorijos politikos kontekste (Political Exclusion and Bipolar Structures of Historical Justice. Lithuanian Russian Memories of WWII in the Context of the Politics of History in Lithuania and Russia). Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 2 (41): 136–167. In Lithuanian.

2017          Laiškų institucija ir kritinis pilietiškumas satyros ir humoro žurnale “Šluota” (Letters to The Broom: Laughter and Politics in Soviet Everyday Life). In: “Social Change and Everyday Life in Eastern Europe.” Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 17: 43–76. In Lithuanian.

2014          Of Power and Laughter: Carnivalesque Politics, Political Opposition, and Moral Citizenship in Lithuania. American Ethnologist 3: 473–490.

2014          Communist Propaganda, Artistic Opposition, and Laughter in the Lithuanian Satire and Humor Journal Šluota, 1964–1985. Lituanus 63: 5–30.

2013          Nation and Liberation: Remembering the National Movement for Independence (1987–1991) in Post-Soviet Lithuania. Ab Imperio. 2: 253–277.

2011 Europe and Its Fragments: Europeanization, Nationalism, and the Geopolitics of Provinciality in Lithuania. Slavic Review 70 (4): 844–872.

2011 Political Intimacy: Power, Laughter, and Coexistence in Late Soviet Lithuania. East European Politics and Societies 25 (4): 658–677.

2010          Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies 41 (3): 295–313.

2010          The Soviet Sausage Renaissance. American Anthropologist 112 (1): 22–37.

2009          Post-Socialist Sensations: Nostalgia, the Self, and Alterity in Lithuania. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 9 (18): 93–116.

2004          People at the Margins of History: Memories of Soviet Times and Experiences of the Present in Village Communities. Politologija 3 (35): 63–83. In Lithuanian.

2003          Ethnographic Note on Nation: Narratives and Symbols of the Early Post-Socialist Nationalism in Lithuania. Dialectical Anthropology 27 (3–4): 279–295.

Book chapters

2022          “Soviet Dystopia: Public Spaces and Modern Materialities in Late Soviet Lithuania.” In: Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania: Generational Experiences. Laima Žilinskiene and Melanie Ilic, eds. Routledge.

2020          Sovereign Pain: Liberation and Suffering in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Lithuania. In: Norris, Stephen, ed. Museums of Communism:  New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. Pp. 23–45.

 2019           “Joke” Elections: Satirical Activism and Political Opposition in Lithuania’s Electoral Politics. In: The Politics of Joking: Anthropological Engagements byJana Kopelent-Rehak and Susanna Trnka, eds. New York: Routledge. Pp. 37–51.

      2018           Socialinio teisingumo sampratos ir patirtys: saugumas, lygybė, pasitikėjimas.(Ideas and Experiences of Social Justice: Security, Equality, and Trust). In: Socialinis ir istorinis teisingumas daugiaetninėje Lietuvos visuomenėje: sampratos, patirtys ir kontekstai (Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania: Ideas, Experiences, and Contexts). Vilnius: Lithuanian Social Research Center. Pp. 237–273. (co-authored with Kristina Sliavaite and Monika Frejute-Rakauskiene). In Lithuanian.

      2018           Tautybių atskirties ir bendrystės ideologijos istorinio teisingumo politikoje, viešoje ir kasdieninėje erdvėje (Ideologies of Ethnic Exclusion and Coexistence in the Politics of Historical Justice, Public and Everyday Space). In: Socialinis ir istorinis teisingumas daugiaetninėje Lietuvos visuomenėje: sampratos, patirtys ir kontekstai (Social and Historical Justice in Multiethnic Lithuania: Ideas, Experiences, and Contexts). Vilnius: Lithuanian Social Research Center. Pp. 101–139. In Lithuanian.

      2012           Introduction. In: Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85. Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, eds. Lexington Books. Pp. 1–14.

2012           Soviet Ethical Citizenship: Morality, the State, and Laughter in Lithuania. In: Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85. Neringa Klumbytė and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, eds. Lexington Books. Pp. 91–116.

2011           Memory, Identity, and Citizenship in Lithuania. In: Memory and Pluralism in the Baltic States. Routledge. Pp. 19–37.

2009           The Geopolitics of Taste: “Euro” and “Soviet” Sausage Industry in Lithuania. In: Food and Everyday Life in Postsocialist World. Melissa L. Caldwell, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2008          The Post-Soviet Publics and Nostalgia for Soviet Times. In: Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe. Ingo Schroeder and Asta Vonderau, eds. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia. Max Planck Institute. LIT Verlag.

Edited journal volumes

2017            Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija special issue “Extraordinary Everyday: Society, History, and Power.” Co-edited with Kristina Šliavaitė. In Lithuanian and English. 2017 (17): 1–246.

2015           Secrecy, Spectacle, and Power. Co-edited with Cristina Vatulescu. Perspectives on Europe 45 (1): 1–129.

2014           War, Sovereignty, and Social Change in Ukraine. Perspectives on Europe 44 (2): 1–99.

2014           Justice and Unfairness: Ethics of Law and Politics in Europe. Perspectives on Europe 44 (1): 1–89.

2013           Humor and Politics in Europe. Perspectives on Europe 43 (2): i–76.

Edited journal forums

2019           Slavic Review Critical Discussion Forum “New War Frontiers and the End of Post-Socialism.” 78 (2): 325–367.

2015           Ab Imperio Forum “Sovereign Futures: Politics of Justice and Governance in Lithuania, Kyrgystan, and Russia” (2): 155–251.

Editor reviewed articles

2017            Память об антисоветском сопротивлении в жизни одного литовского села. “Уроки Истории” (Memory of anti-Soviet resistance in the life of a village community) an online journal-website of the International Memorial, the international historical, educational, charitable and human rights society. Moscow, Russia. Translated into Russian by Семен Шешенин. Published August 3, 2017.

Republished by Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian online media sites:

https://urokiistorii.ru/article/54023

http://argumentua.com/stati/vozvrashchenie-sebya-pamyat-ob-antisovetskom-soprotivlenii-v-zhizni-odnogo-litovskogo-sela

2017           Įvadas. Nekasdieniškos kasdienybės: visuomenė, istorija, galia (Introduction: Extraordinary Everyday: Society, History, and Power). Co-authored with Kristina Šliavaitė. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija, special issue “Extraordinary Everyday: Society, History, and Power.” Co-edited with Kristina Šliavaitė. 2017 (17): 711. In Lithuanian.

2015           Sovereignty and Justice: Introduction to the Forum. Ab Imperio 2: 156–161.

2006           The Alchemy of Cynicism: Authority, Power, and the Post-Socialist State in Lithuania. In:  Defining Region: Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Part 2. Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis XIII, Studia Anthropologica II. Klaipėda: University of Klaipėda. 2006. Pp. 31–46.

Reviews and encyclopedia entries

Review of Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands. Epp Annus. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Slavic Review 78 (2). 2019.

Review of Sovietinis ,,generalgubernatorius”: Komunistų partijų antrieji sekretoriai Sovietų Sąjungos respublikose. Saulius Grybkauskas. Vilnius: Lietuvos istorijos institutas, 2016. Lithuanian Historical Studies 2017 (21): 204–208.

Review of The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania. Gediminas Lankauskas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Lietuvos etnologija: socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos 2017 (17): 215–218.

Review of Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era. Ideology and Exchange. Dina Fainberg and Artemy M. Kalinovsky, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. The Russian Review 2017 76 (3): 581–582.

Review of Sąjūdžio ištakų beieškant: Nepaklusniųjų tinklaveikos galia (In Search of Sąjūdis Orignis: The Networking Power of the Dissobedient). Jūratė Kavaliauskaitė and Ainė Ramonaitė, eds. Baltos lankos, 2011. Lithuanian Historical Studies 2014 (19): 221–225.

Review of After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia. Jessica Greenberg. Stanford University Press, 2014. Anthropology of East Europe Review 2014, 32 (2): 91–92.

Review of Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. Timothy de Waal Malefyt and Robert J. Morais. London: Berg, 2012. 186 pp. American Ethnologist 2012, 41 (4): 785–786.

Review of A Death Transformed: The Political and Social Consequences of Romas Kalanta’s Self Immolation, Soviet Lithuania, 1972. Amanda Jeanne Swain. Russian Studies Dissertation Reviews. 2014. http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6235.

Review of Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow. Jarrett Zigon. Leiden: Brill, 2010. East Central Europe 2013 (40): 381–382.

Review of Re-visioning Europe: Frontiers, Place Identities and Journeys in Debatable Lands. Ullrich Kockel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 2011, 11 (20): 182. In Lithuanian.

Review of Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class. Jennifer Patico. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Anthropology of East Europe Review 2009, 27 (3): 258–259.

“Socialism.” Entry for Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Vincent N. Parrillo et al., eds. SAGE Publications, Inc. 2008.

Review of Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia. Buckley, Cynthia J., Ruble, Blair A., with Erin Trouth Hofmann, eds. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Perspectives on Politics.

Review of From Pioneers to Target Group: Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community. Kristina Sliavaite. Lund, Sweden: Department of Sociology, Lund University, 2005. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 2008, 8 (17): 163–167. In Lithuanian.

Review of Baltic Postcolonialism. Kelertas, Violeta, ed. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006 East European Politics and Societies. 2007, 21 (2): 382–392.

Review of Baltic Postcolonialism. Kelertas, Violeta, ed. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. Published in the Chicago daily Draugas. 2006. June 17. No. 117. Pp. 6–8.

Public media contributions

Nation, Freedom, and Strong Feelings. Daily Bernardinai.lt. March 21, 2011. In Lithuanian. Reprinted from Draugas.

Genealogies of Liberation: Nation, Freedom, and Subject in Post-Soviet Lithuania. Akiračiai. 2005. November. No.10. Pp.10–12. In Lithuanian.

Margins of History: Memories of Socialism and Experiences of Change in three Villages of Lithuania. Akiračiai. 2004. October. No. 9 (363). Pp. 11–14. In Lithuanian.

Interview with Neringa Klumbytė by Tomas Vaiseta “Lietuvos, bet teisingesnės” (“[Towards] more just Lithuania”). Naujasis Židinys-Aidai 2017 (1): 22–26.

Other

“In Lieu of an Introduction” and prepared for publication and translated interview with Kęstutis Šiaulytis “Graphic Satire in the Lithuanian Satire and Humor Magazine Broom.” Ab Imperio 2021 (1): 241–250.

Laiškų institucija ir kritinis pilietiškumas satyros ir humoro žurnale “Šluota” (Letters to The Broom: Laughter and Politics in Soviet Everyday Life). The Union of Journalists of Lithuania webpage, published on June 29, 2019. Republished from Laiškų institucija ir kritinis pilietiškumas satyros ir humoro žurnale “Šluota.” Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija 17: 43–76. In Lithuanian. At http://www.lzs.lt/lt/naujienos/zurnalistikos_istorija/archive/neringa_klumbyte_laisku_institucija_ir_kritinis_pilietiskumas_satyros_ir_humoro_zurnale_sluota.html.

Introduction to the Forum “Sovereign Uncertainty and the Dangers to Liberalism at the Baltic Frontier.” Slavic Review 2019, 78 (2): 325–327.

Preface to an edited collection The Politics of Joking: Anthropological Engagements byJana Kopelent-Rehak and Susanna Trnka, eds. New York: Routledge. 2019. P. xiii-xiv.

Geopolitics of (In)security on Europe’s Baltic Frontier. Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots, Fieldsights, 2018, April 25. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/geopolitics-of-insecurity-on-europes-baltic-frontier

Pratarmė. Editorial. Co-authored with Kristina Šliavaitė. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija special issue “Extraordinary Everyday: Society, History, and Power.” Co-edited with Kristina Šliavaitė. In Lithuanian and English. 2017 (17): 5–6.

Editors’ Note. With Cristina Vatulescu. Perspectives on Europe 2015.45 (1): 6–11. In: Secrecy, Spectacle, and Power. Co-edited with Cristina Vatulescu. Perspectives on Europe 45 (1): 1–129.

Conversations on Government Secrecy and Surveillance withAndreas Glaeser, Kristie Macrakis, Timothy Melley, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Katherine Verdery, and Amir Weiner. Perspectives on Europe 2015.45 (1): 61–70. In: Secrecy, Spectacle, and Power. Co-edited with Cristina Vatulescu. Perspectives on Europe 45 (1): 1–129.

European Association of Social Anthropologists 13^th Biennial Conference, Tallinn, Estonia. Anthropology News. 2014. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2014/09/11/european-association-of-social-anthropologists-13th-biennial-conference/

Editor’s Note, special issue “War, Sovereignty, and Social Change in Ukraine.” 2014. Perspectives on Europe 44 (2): 1–99.

Editor’s Note, special issue “Justice and Unfairness: Ethics of Law and Politics in Europe.” 2014. Perspectives on Europe 44: 1. Pp.5–7.

Editor’s Note, special issue “Humor and Politics in Europe.” Perspectives on Europe 43:2. Autumn, 2013. Pp. 4–6.

Anthropology, Culture, and Critical Issues at the American Anthropological Association Conference. San Jose. November 15–19, 2006. Lietuvos Etnologija: Etnologija ir Socialinė Antropologija. 2008. 8 (17): 183–186. In Lithuanian.

Politics of Laughter and Antagonistic Democracy in Lithuania. 2010. Anthropology News 51 (3): 39.

Village Communities and Remembering Socialism in Lithuania. In: The New Central and East European Culture. Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, Andras, Carmen, and Magdalena Marsovszky, eds. Herzogenrath: Shaker Verlag. 2006. ISBN 3-8322-5143-X.

“Tradicinės” ir “šiuolaikinės” lietuvių vertybės: kaita ir tęstinumas. In: Vertybės: konfliktas ar koegzistencija? 1999. Vilnius. In Lithuanian.

The Critique of the Scientific Discourse in Cultural Anthropology. In: Mokslas kultūros kontekste. 1999. Kaunas: Technologija.