![]() Jõgi, unpublished data) and 24 additional articles from various newspapers and journals.ģ. 2005, and Peil 2005 for references and discussion), booklets and web pages for tourism promotion, including the home page of Paldiski Town Council (manuscripts at the Estonian History Archives, Tallinn City Archives, Estonian National Museum, and Estonian History Museum, and a review of 280 newspaper articles in national newspapers published between 19 conducted and analysed systematically by Minna Jõgi (Jõgi & Peil 2005, M. Sources included 114 scientific and popular texts on the physical conditions and history of the peninsula published since the 1850s (see Hade et al. The museum is still not among the priorities of the council (but they are not to blame given the many social and environmental issues to tackle) but recently some effort has gone into better storage and cataloguing.Ģ. The unheated space in a 100 year old stone building is obviously not the best for storage. The exhibits (mostly contributions from past and present inhabitants of Paldiski, including some unique photographs and material from the Soviet period, as well as copies of material in other Estonian archives) were packed into boxes and put into the basement of the town council building. The Paldiski Museum was opened in 1996 on a wave of local (Estonian) enthusiasm, but closed due to lack of finances a few years later. The role of individuals in creating landscapes in physical and representational form is a central issue in the case of Paldiski, based on which the more general concerns of ‘laying down the law’ and justice in landscape and society may be examined.ġ. ![]() The article also includes a brief presentation of the history of mapping in Estonia in the confines of the modern state – the Swedish kingdom, Russian empire, military Germany, the Soviet Union, and Estonia. ![]() The real and assumed ties between the physical environment and past and present representations are conveyed in the descriptive form of a map of a walk. The main objective is to examine the meanings given to one limited area in Estonia, Paldiski – covering the Pakri peninsula – by presenting its contemporary content and considering different angles for interpretation. The production and use of maps is seen as part of power relations in society, referred to in Foucault's term as ‘games of strategy’, including dominance and control of the natural environment and the social system, but also resistance to and negotiation of power positions in society. The article explores relationships between representations (maps) and the represented (landscape), focusing on the role of maps in creating places and as devices in the generation and manipulation of knowledge. ![]()
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