The project will explore from the background of overall transformation processes in Lithuania from a Soviet Socialist Republic to an independent state, the dynamics of implementing a new postsocialist legal order and practice on a local scale. Taking the example of the Curonian Lagoon region, a borderland area politically divided between Lithuania and Kaliningrad Oblast (an enclave of the Russian Federation), the project examines recent political, socio-economic and legal transitions in the context of broader historical changes in the southeastern Baltic (see map). The study aims to contribute to the understandings of complex social processes of change and continuity in a specific locality over time, through the interrelated domains of legal pluralism, cultural property and social security.
General location map
A reconstructed Curonian fishing boat. Lithuanian tourist agents use it for tourist trips over the Curonian Lagoon
Old photo of a Curonian fishing boats before 1945