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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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The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.
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