Egle Kesylyte-Allix

• Kesylytė-Alliks, Eglė (2019). State, Nation, and the National Flag in Post-Soviet Lithuania: Legitimating Identities of the State in Institutional and Social Discourses. Nationalities Papers. ISSN 0090-5992. 47(3), p. 445–460. doi: 10.1017/nps.2018.6. Full text in Research Archive
• Kesylytė-Alliks, Eglė (2017). “Locked Up” in Nation States: Perceptions of the Relations between the State and National Community within Political and Social Discourse in Lithuania. Druzboslovne razprave. ISSN 0352-3608. 33(85), p. 73–89. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article examines how the idea of the nation-state is articulated in political and social discourse. In particular, it explores how the national community and the state are positioned vis-a`-vis each other in discourse surrounding national flags. I locate my analysis in Lithuania after the dissolution of the USSR. I explore how the interaction between the state and the nation is discursively represented among politicians and ordinary citizens when they discuss Lithuanian national flag(s). Intriguingly, whereas semi-public discourse could generally be described as “locked up” in thinking in terms of the nation and state as interdependent entities, for political actors the intertwining of the nation and state was a less doxastic state of affairs.

• Kesylytė-Alliks, Eglė (2017). Discursive construction of Lithuania’s “others:” the case of Belarus. Nationalities Papers. ISSN 0090-5992. 45(1), p. 80–95. doi: 10.1080/00905992.2016.1250068. Full text in Research Archive

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• Kesylytė-Alliks, Eglė (2016). National flags and negotiation of collective identities: A study of public and social discourses. Full text in Research Archive
• Kesylyte-Alliks, Egle (2017). (In)visible Power of the State: National Flag, Nation and State in post-1990 Lithuania. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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