{"title":"Introduction to Fucking Solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective","authors":"","doi":"10.52323/567892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/567892","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces some of the questions, activist and theoretical concepts featured in the special issue “Fucking solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a post-Soviet Perspective”. It reflects on the usage and applicability of the term queer and queer concepts within post-Soviet and postsocialist spaces, by playfully using the “fucking” as critical term, to emphasize queer’s original potential to offend and disrupt within English language. It reflects on the possibilities of queer and feminist solidarities across the East/West divide that do not fall into the trap of (Western) hegemony or anti-Western sentiments. Framing queer solidarity as “working together,” it looks for the possibilities of egalitarian mutual support across national and cultural borders. Finally, it gives an overview of the texts collected in the special issue.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121298819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After August 2020: Stories of LGBT+ People in Belarus","authors":"Anonymous.","doi":"10.52323/993862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/993862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133572663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Жизнь женщины» – очень размытое понятие","authors":"Мариам Агамян","doi":"10.52323/626703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/626703","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125416383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queering Bratislava: On Borders, Otherness and Public Space","authors":"Myrto Tsilimpounidi","doi":"10.52323/4187322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/4187322","url":null,"abstract":"This paper follows the multiple layers of an urban fabric that is stereotypically characterised as ‘post-socialist’, yet in essence, it is subject to ongoing transitions – much like the notion of being queer. What can we learn from queer theory in relation to post-socialist urban theory? What are the methodological advancements that derive from a queer approach to research? In this light, the presentation breaks the usually logocentric academic discourse as it engages with the premises of visual sociology. Using visual material from Bratislava focusing on urban inscriptions (street art, urban interventions), it opens up a discussion about the changes in the city and the struggles of different groups.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130701133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Наші Дикі»: естетика та політика в музиці незалежної України","authors":"Ганна Гнедкова","doi":"10.52323/498151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/498151","url":null,"abstract":"Монографія «Дика музика» є результатом тривалого етномузикознавчого дослідження, яке почалося 2004 року, коли Руслана Лижичко виборола для України перемогу на «Євробаченні» з піснею «Wild Dances». Книжка наголошує, що музика не лише робить естетичний внесок у культуру, а й витворює «візії суверенності»; може транслювати не тільки бажання, а й політичні вимоги. Важливим концептом, характерним для української музики, і зокрема етномузики, є «дикість» – полісемантичне слово, яке дістає дедалі більше нових переосмислень у різних історико-політичних і культурних контекстах.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124237111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Жити феміністично","authors":"О. Ю. Гусєва","doi":"10.52323/492391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/492391","url":null,"abstract":"Дев’ята книга феміністки та незалежної дослідниці Сари Ахмед «Жити феміністично» – текст, що поєднанує епізоди з особистого життя і професійної діяльності авторки, діалоги з видатними теоретикинями фемінізму, приклади з фольклору, художньої літератури та кінематографу, а також роздуми про розвиток і перспективи феміністичного руху. Спираючись на рефлексивно-аналітичний підхід, авторка демонструє, що життя за принципами фемінізму, як і саме поняття фемінізму, полягає в постійному критичному ставленні до навколишньої дійсності та в порушенні гострих і часто незручних питань.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116477691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Стигматизація аналітичної концепції ґендеру як ідеології","authors":"Ержебет Борат","doi":"10.52323/499451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/499451","url":null,"abstract":"Звідколи 1989 року в Угорщині змінився політичний режим, авторка визначає три смислові вузли, які виникли та кристалізувалися в дискурси «ґендерної ідеології» та «ґендероманії». Таке переприсвоєння ключової категорії феміністичного аналізу – серйозний наступ, що має на меті не лише стигматизувати й огудити критичний потенціал «ґендеру», а й підважити саме його існування. У тексті Ержебет Борат розмірковує про особливості цих змін та пропонує полівокальну модель значення, яка завжди відкрита до критики. Така соціально обумовлена модель потрібна, аби повернути собі ґендер як критичну категорію аналізу, створену для розвінчування ідеологічної потреби патріархальних інституцій ре/продукувати нерівні владні відносини як даність.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125311797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Манифест Черного феминизма","authors":"Коллектив реки Комбахи","doi":"10.52323/509433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/509433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115780285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Між колоніальністю і націоналізмом: генеалогії феміністичного активізму в Україні","authors":"Ольга Плахотнік, Марія Маєрчик","doi":"10.52323/079441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/079441","url":null,"abstract":"У цій статті ми пропонуємо нарис генеалогії фемінізмів в Україні 2007–2017 років, з особливою увагою до тих фемінізмів, які встановлюють множинні зв’язки між нацією, державою, неолібералізмом, колоніальністю, війною, сексуальністю, циснормативністю. Цей текст — приклад ситуйованого знання, продукованого зсередини досліджуваного поля. Він базується на нашій залученості в активізм і віддзеркалює наш тривалий пошук мови для аналізу фемінізмів в Україні як простору, який заведено означувати через геотемпоральні категорії східноєвропейськости, пострадянськости, постсоціалізму чи глобального півдня.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130351772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hegemony in Post-Soviet Georgia: Types of Nationalisms and Masculinities","authors":"A. Beraia","doi":"10.52323/FC4-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52323/FC4-5","url":null,"abstract":"The article concerns the political history of the post-Soviet Georgian state. The new post-Soviet nation-state is being created and gradually transformed into a political economy of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism. In this transformation, Georgia moves away from the Soviet Union and its successor Russia and acquires European identity via the discourse and practices of national political and economic elites. The discursive production of this hegemonic pro-Western nationalism is intertwined with the production of hegemonic masculinities. This article analyzes the discourses of these elites and reveals three types of hegemonic masculinity, which acquire their meaning alongside and through the processes of national independence, militarization, and/or neoliberal reforms and policies. These new masculinities aim to replace old, Soviet, hegemonic masculinities in Georgia and thus, a new kind of hegemonic culture and patriarchy is being created. Further, the historical domination of pro-Western nationalism can be interpreted variously: while Georgia is open, nearly from the outset, to the Western-style political system (liberal democracy), one can also look to certain historical moments as the turning points when an active neoliberal transformation and (discursive) attainment of European identity began in Georgia. \u0000Keywords: nationalism; masculinities; hegemony; post-Soviet Georgia.","PeriodicalId":175752,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127382850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}