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Humanities and Social Sciences. Latvia: Vol. 28, N 1 (Spring-Summer 2020) 

2020

Juridiskās zinātnes, Nr.14

2021

Mazumtirdzniecības nozares raksturojums un nozares līderu SIA “Rimi Latvia” un SIA “Maxima Latvija darbības finanšu analīze

2019

Mazumtirdzniecības nozare sniedz būtisku ieguldījumu tautsaimniecībā. Katru gadu mazumtirdzniecības nozare attīstās, nozares apgrozījums pieaug, tirgū ienāk jauni spēlētāji, kas liek mainīt uzņēmuma stratēģiju esošajiem uzņēmumiem. Tāpat mazumtirdzniecībā lielveikalos Latvijas tirgū dominē divi lieli spēlētāji – SIA “Rimi Latvia” un SIA “Maxima Latvija”, šie uzņēmumi ir darba autora pētāmie uzņēmumi. SIA “Rimi Latvia” un SIA “Maxima Latvija” veikalu tīkliem ir dažādu formātu veikali, kuri tiek bāzēti visā Latvijā. SIA “Rimi Latvia” atrodas ICA Gruppen pārstāvniecībā, pārstāvniecība bāzējās Zviedrijā. Šī uzņēmuma veikalu tīkli ir bāzēti arī Igaunijā un Lietuvā. SIA “Maxima Latvija” atrodas U…

The Complex Identities of Latvians Abroad: What Shapes a Migrant’s Sense of Belonging?

2019

AbstractBuilding on the data from The Emigrant Communities of Latvia survey, this chapter aims to reveal and describe the complex nature of the sense of geographic and social belonging of those who became emigrants. It will explore the factors affecting the maintenance of their identity and consider transformation processes among migrants. The starting point of this chapter is the assumption that the ‘sense of belonging’ is affected by a variety of different objective and subjective factors, and that identity is multi-faceted. Instead of facing a trade-off between feeling close to the home country or host country, or developing a supranational identity, different combinations of types of a …

Happy Birthday, Mr. Ulmanis! Reflections on the Construction of an Authoritarian Regime in Latvia

2014

AbstractThe authors of the article analyse the ideology of the authoritarian regime which lasted in Latvia from the coup d'etat on 15 May 1934 until the beginning of the Soviet occupation on 17 June 1940. A variety of sources (newspapers and books of the analysed period) are used for the article. The birthday celebrations of authoritarian leader Kārlis Ulmanis are used as a case study to show the performative elements of the regime. The authors argue that during the short period of authoritarian rule in Latvia, the new political culture known as authoritarianism was widely supported and popular due to the dominance of the performative and festive practices used by the political elite to est…

Representations of Woman’s Body in Prose by Latvian Women Writers

2013

Feminism has been deeply concerned with female body either as something to be rejected in the pursuit of intellectual equality or as something to be reclaimed as the very essence of women. Another alternative, associated with feminist postmodernism, seeks to emphasize the importance and inescapability of embodiment rather as a differential and fluid construct than as a fixed given. Different female body representations are inscribed in Latvian women’s prose from 1960s to 2010. As it was common for Soviet literature, also in prose of Latvian women writers of the period body and sexuality, especially the female one, was left beyond the discussion, mostly figuring as the unspoken. If woman’s b…

Advertising in Latvia

2002

Latvia is one of the three Baltic States, and recovered its independence in 1991. The development of an advertising industry in Latvia started with the decay of the Soviet Union. The recovery of independence and the transition period to the market economy, as in all of the former USSR, required rapid development of the advertising industry. The birth and development of this field was inescapable, and was dictated by the competitive principles of the market economy. As with individual advertisements, the whole advertising market in Latvia is specific, and it is slowly developing its own character. Many foreign companies have entered the Latvian advertising market, each of them bringing its u…

The Influence of Civic and Citizenship Education Achievements on the Development of Students' Citizenship Attitudes

2013

Civic skills, knowledge and attitudes are the elements forming the citizenship concept. How do they suit multicultural societies? What are the mutual links among civic attitudes, knowledge and skills of different ethnic groups? The aim of the research is to establish the model of students’ civic competence and to find out factors which explain the influence of civic achievements on civic attitudes. IEA (the International Association for the Evolution of Educational Achievement) ICCS 2009 (the International Civic and Citizenship Studies 2009) are used for the analysis. SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) is used for data processing. The authors used multi-modelling to compare Latvian and Est…

The Great Departure: Rethinking National(ist) Common Sense

2012

This article argues that, in order to overcome the national(ist) common sense that continues to haunt everyday political and scholarly interpretations of mobility, scholars need not diagnose nationalism with greater vigour, but should rather move beyond facile diagnoses of nationalism. The article calls for a meticulous tracing of relations and practices of emplacement and displacement that ubiquitous national(ist) interpretive frames both co-opt and exceed simultaneously. The argument is elaborated on the basis of an analysis of historical articulations of emplacement and displacement in Latvian understandings of ‘the good life’. The article pays particular attention to the ways in which t…

Brief History of Computer Art and New Media Art in Latvia

2011

The Soviet and particularly Latvian computer art is not a well-known topic of digital art history. This paper attempts to analyze this computer art in context of the 20th century art, considering the political circumstances in Soviet Union. At the turn of the 21st century after gaining the independence new media art examples and collaboration between scientists, computer scientists, software programmers and the artists are to be found in Latvia. Some recent media art events are mentioned from this viewpoint.