MAPS OF DECOLONIZATION
The Post-Soviet Disintegration of Lithuanian Criminal Prosecution System
The website you are visiting is created as a part of the research project “Maps of Decolonization: the Post-Soviet Disintegration of Lithuanian Criminal Prosecution System”.
The research project was implemented from October, 2020 to May, 2023 at the Lithuanian institute of History.
This research was funded by the European Social Fund under the No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 “Development of Competences of Scientists, other Researchers and Students through Practical Research Activities” measure.
Project No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0199. Number of Contract Dotsut-210.
In Lithuanian: projektas finansuojamas Europos Sąjungos fondų investicijų veiksmų programos 9 prioriteto „Visuomenės švietimas ir žmogiškųjų išteklių potencialo didinimas“ 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 priemonės „Mokslininkų, kitų tyrėjų, studentų mokslinės kompetencijos ugdymas per praktinę mokslinę veiklą“ lėšomis).
The objective of the research project is to investigate the transformation of the Lithuanian criminal prosecution system after the restoration ofLithuania’s independence before joining the European Union. An additional objective is to learn the methodology and techniques of digital humanities.
The project combines historical research with the acquisition of new skills by the researcher. The new skills in the field of digital humanities have been developed and applied to the project itself (data collection, archiving, systematization and analysis). These new skills were also used in the development of the final product, which you are seeing on this website (virtual digital map that represents the decolonization of law in the former Soviet Union).
The tasks of the research presented here were to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the Lithuanian criminal prosecution system since 1990 within the paradigm of decolonization, combining traditional methods of history with new digital humanities tools, thus generating such results of the planned research:
1) academic article – publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal;
2) academic book – monograph;
3) new website based on the combined software programs: digital map with possibility to perform supplemental or extended data analysis, enhancement of the database and visualize the research results.
