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Abstract
The paper studies how former military landscapes can be socially restored. It focuses on two former Soviet military bases in Estonia, Pärispea and Kangru. Since the Soviet Army left in 1994, most of the military installations have been abandoned and destroyed; some are used by the Estonian military, some have been turned into different kinds of development projects. We focus on two installations, one that has been unused and one that has been developed into a residential neighbourhood. By interviewing the locals, we explore how the military past is handled by the present inhabitants. In one case the community has tried to ‘re-domesticate’ the once lost grounds; in the other the community believes the future lies in ignoring the past. Both cases show that the continuation of a place as a material-discursive phenomenon depends on the interaction of its two components.