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Tlostanova, M., Koobak, R. & Thapar-Björkert, S. (2021). Introduction: uneasy affinities between the postcolonial and the postsocialist (1ed.). In: Koobak, Tlostanova, Thapar-Björkert (Ed.), Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist THeorizing and Practice (pp. 1-10). London, New York: Routledge
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2021 (English)In: Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist THeorizing and Practice / [ed] Koobak, Tlostanova, Thapar-Björkert, London, New York: Routledge, 2021, 1, p. 1-10Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London, New York: Routledge, 2021 Edition: 1
Series
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Keywords
postcolonial and postsocialist feminisms
National Category
Other Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-174057 (URN)9780367434403 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-03-11 Created: 2021-03-11 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Koobak, R., Tlostanova, M. & Thapar-Björkert, S. (Eds.). (2021). Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues: intersections, opacities, challenges in feminist theorizing and practice (1ed.). London: Routledge
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2021 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition - historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2021. p. 265 Edition: 1
Series
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Keywords
postcolonial, postsocialist, feminism, Feminism - historia, Könsroller - historia, 2000-talet, Nyliberalism - historia, Rasrelationer - politiska aspekter, Postkolonialism - sociala aspekter, Postkommunism - sociala aspekter
National Category
Other Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-174056 (URN)10.4324/9781003003199 (DOI)9780367434403 (ISBN)9781003003199 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-03-11 Created: 2021-03-11 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Tlostanova, M., Thapar-Bjorkert, S. & Koobak, R. (2019). The Postsocialist ‘Missing Other’ of Transnational Feminism?. Feminist Review (121), 81-87
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2019 (English)In: Feminist Review, ISSN 0141-7789, E-ISSN 1466-4380, no 121, p. 81-87Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019
Keywords
postsocialist feminism, transnational feminism, postcolonial feminism
National Category
Other Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-155665 (URN)10.1177/0141778918816946 (DOI)000461764700007 ()
Available from: 2019-03-22 Created: 2019-03-22 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Koobak, R. & Thapar-Björkert, S. (2015). Transversal dialogue: intersections of postcolonial and postsocialist analytics in transnational feminist studies. In: : . Paper presented at Transversal Dialogues seminar series. Örebro University, Sweden
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2015 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Örebro University, Sweden: , 2015
Keywords
gender, feminist studies, transnational feminism, postsocialism, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, race
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-115079 (URN)
Conference
Transversal Dialogues seminar series
Available from: 2015-03-06 Created: 2015-03-06 Last updated: 2015-03-16
Koobak, R. (2014). Affective histories: Woman in the Corner of Mutsu’s Drawings. In: : . Paper presented at Yale conference on Baltic and Scandinavian Studies. Yale University, New Haven, USA
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2014 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Yale University, New Haven, USA: , 2014
Keywords
gender, feminist theory, postsocialism, Eastern Europe, Estonia, visual arts, queer, Anna-Stina Treumund, Marju Mutsu
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-115067 (URN)
Conference
Yale conference on Baltic and Scandinavian Studies
Available from: 2015-03-06 Created: 2015-03-06 Last updated: 2015-03-16
Lykke, N., Brewster, A., Davis, K., Koobak, R., Lie, S. & Petö, A. (2014). Editorial Introduction. In: Nina Lykke (Ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (pp. 1-13). New York: Routledge
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2014 (English)In: Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing / [ed] Nina Lykke, New York: Routledge, 2014, p. 1-13Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book offers theories, methodologies, political and ethical considerations, as well as reflections on writing strategies. Suggestions for writing exercises, developed against the background of the contributors' individual and joint teaching practices, will inspire readers to engage in alternative writing practices themselves.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2014
Series
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality ; 16
Keywords
Academic writing ´-Social aspects, Feminist theory, Feminism, Feminism and literature, Creative writing, Feminism, Authorship, Women authors, Feminist theory, Feminism, Författarskap, Kvinnliga författare, Feminism och litteratur, Kreativt skrivande, Vetenskapligt skrivande, Feministisk teori, Forskningsmetodik- feministisk teori -intersektionalitet, Vetenskap -skrivande, Etik
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-74708 (URN)978-0-415-50225-2 (ISBN)0-415-50225-X (ISBN)978-1-315-81856-6 (e-book) (ISBN)
Available from: 2012-02-05 Created: 2012-02-05 Last updated: 2015-06-02Bibliographically approved
Koobak, R. (2014). Six impossible things before breakfast: How I came across my research topic and what happened next (1ed.). In: Nina Lykke (Ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (pp. 95-110). New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Six impossible things before breakfast: How I came across my research topic and what happened next
2014 (English)In: Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing / [ed] Nina Lykke, New York: Routledge, 2014, 1, p. 95-110Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book offers theories, methodologies, political and ethical considerations, as well as reflections on writing strategies. Suggestions for writing exercises, developed against the background of the contributors' individual and joint teaching practices, will inspire readers to engage in alternative writing practices themselves.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2014 Edition: 1
Series
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality ; 16
Keywords
Academic writing Social aspects, Feminist theory., Authorship, eminism, Academic writing, Women authors, Creative writing, Feminism and literature, Feminism, örfattarskap, Kvinnliga författare, Feminism och litteratur, Kreativt skrivande, Vetenskapligt skrivande, Feministisk teori
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-91025 (URN)978-0-415-50225-2 (ISBN)0-4155-0-225-X (ISBN)
Available from: 2013-04-11 Created: 2013-04-11 Last updated: 2015-06-02Bibliographically approved
Koobak, R. & Marling, R. (2014). The decolonial challenge: Framing post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe within transnational feminist studies. The European Journal of Women's Studies, 21(4), 330-343
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2014 (English)In: The European Journal of Women's Studies, ISSN 1350-5068, E-ISSN 1461-7420, Vol. 21, no 4, p. 330-343Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The article explores the location of Central and Eastern Europe in transnational feminist studies. Despite the acknowledgement of the situatedness of knowledge, feminist theorising nevertheless seems to continue to be organised around a limited number of central axes and internalised progress narratives. The authors argue that there is a pressing need for theories which can approach the near absence of Central and Eastern European perspectives from transnational feminist theorising, and challenge the limited number of discursive tropes associated with post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe – especially that of a ‘lag’, where difference is translated into a temporal distance. Instead, the authors suggest that a more inclusive vision of transnational feminist studies can be achieved by applying the decolonial framework to the post-socialist context, as explicated in the work of Madina Tlostanova.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2014
Keywords
gender, transnational feminist studies, Central and Eastern Europe, decolonial approach, postcolonial theory, post-socialism
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-109699 (URN)10.1177/1350506814542882 (DOI)000342980400002 ()
Available from: 2014-08-25 Created: 2014-08-25 Last updated: 2017-12-05
Koobak, R. (2014). Touching across time: The geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the visual arts. ЛИЧНОСТЬ, КУЛЬТУРА, ОБЩЕСТВО [Lichnost', Kultura, Obshchestvo], 81-82(1-2), 97-109
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Touching across time: The geopolitics of feminist knowledge and the visual arts
2014 (English)In: ЛИЧНОСТЬ, КУЛЬТУРА, ОБЩЕСТВО [Lichnost', Kultura, Obshchestvo], ISSN 1606-951X, Vol. 81-82, no 1-2, p. 97-109Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, I explore the question of geopolitics of knowledge in feminist studies together with the notion that the visual arts are an important starting point for the decolonization of knowledge and imagination. In particular, I discuss a series of self-portrait photographs by AnnaStina Treumund, a feminist and lesbian identified artist from postsocialist Estonia, and see if and how her work helps to reconfigure the lag discourse often associated with the former Eastern Europe within feminist theorizing. I zoom in on the artwork entitled Woman in the Corner of Mutsu’s Drawings (2010), an homage to Estonian graphic artist Marju Mutsu’s three ink drawings from 1972, and its connections with the recent turn towards history and reconceptualizing normative models of time in queer theory. Through Elizabeth Freeman’s concept of “erotohistoriography”, I will argue that Treumund’s impulse to start “making connections across time” [5] reveals a resistance to “chrononormative” models of history [9; 10] and to a tendency to view the present of feminist thought and queer art in Eastern Europe as always already one step behind the West.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Moscow: Nezavisimyi Institut Grazhdanskogo Obshchestva, 2014
Keywords
gender, feminist art, queer time, geopolitics, erotohistoriography, Anna-Stina Treumund, Marju Mutsu, postsocialism, Eastern Europe Estonia
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-109697 (URN)
Available from: 2014-08-25 Created: 2014-08-25 Last updated: 2015-03-06
Koobak, R. & Thapar-Björkert, S. (2014). Transversal dialogues on intersectionality. In: : . Paper presented at Intergender conference "Excitable Writing! trans_forming academia_art_activism", Linköping University, Sweden.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Transversal dialogues on intersectionality
2014 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Keywords
gender, feminist theory, intersectionality, postcolonialism, postsocialism, collaborative writing
National Category
Gender Studies Other Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-115085 (URN)
Conference
Intergender conference "Excitable Writing! trans_forming academia_art_activism", Linköping University, Sweden
Available from: 2015-03-06 Created: 2015-03-06 Last updated: 2015-03-16
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