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Sylwia Koziel and Ylva Spånberger Weitz

Sylwia Koziel holds a PhD in Social Work, and is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University. Main research areas: Child welfare, participation and
perspectve, and international social work.
Ylva Spånberger Weitz holds a PhD in Social Work, and is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University. Her main research interests are school social work and young people’s participation in welfare services.

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Articles by Sylwia Koziel and Ylva Spånberger Weitz

  1. gender – merely a “social fact” the Construction of Neo-Authoritarian Us/Them Dichotomies

    That gender cannot be reduced to an ahistorical fact is a widely researched insight of multidisciplinary gender studies. In theory as well as in political practice gender is thus generally understood as a post-essentialist, reflexive, and contingent concept. Against this backdrop the essay asks for the German context in what way and with which intentions, neo-authoritarian discourses and movements explicitly not only reject, attack and defame gender as concept, but also reclaim it. I will argue that under the cipher ‘anti-genderism’, a discourse has been formed that can first be described as a neo-fundamentalist discourse and that is secondly explicitly used to construct racist, neo-authoritarian us/them-dichotomies. The so called anti-gender forces become thus identifiable as the element of a dispositif, which is at the core and subject to further clarification of anti-democratic nature.

  2. Czech Republic 2017. The winners were the Anti-Establishment Parties

    The clear winner was – as had been predicted – the ANO movement (29,64%). The other two major winners of the elections were the Pirate Party and the extreme right-wing SPD, that both for the first time ever surpassed the ten percent election threshold and made their way to the parliament. The biggest winners of the elections were thus the Anti-Establishment Parties and their candidates.

  3. Archiv

    2016. Backlash in the East Baltic Worlds publishes comments and opinions on the recent situation in Poland concerning the abortion […]

  4. Serfdom in Russia 150 years later. Structures live on

    Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (NLO) [New Literary Observer] (2016) no. 5–6.

  5. Russian Literature since 1991. The past is part of the future

    Russian Literature since 1991, Eds. Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 320 pages.

  6. The Belarusian Maidan A new social movement

    Vasil Navumau, The Belarusian Maidan in 2006: A New Social Movement Approach to the Tent Camp Protest in Minsk, Polish Studies in Culture, Nations and Politics, vol. 5, edited by Joanna Kurczewska and Yasuko Shibata, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016, 260 pages.

  7. Imagining the Åland Islands. A sea of peace

    Deborah Paci, L’archipelago della pace: Le isole Åland e il Baltico (XIX-XXI secolo) [The Archipelago of Peace: The Åland Islands and the Baltic Sea (19th-21st centuries)], Milan: Unicopli, 2016; 236 pages.

  8. An innovative guidebook to St. Petersburg. Breaking through the invisibility of Muslim history and culture

    Renat Bekkin and Almira Tagirdz-hanova, Musulmanskii St. Peterburg.Istoricheskii putevoditel. [Muslim St. Petersburg: Historical Guidebook; The Life of Muslims in St. Petersburg and Its Suburbs] Renat Bekkin and Almira Tagirdzhanova. Moscow and St. Petersburg, 2016, 639 pages.

  9. Ukrainian popular culture In the context of Bakhtin’s philosophy of laughter & the postcolonial perspective:

    The paper is a study of the Ukrainian popular culture based on the material of the Ukrainian TV comedy shows which emerged after 1991. They are: Maski Show, Gentlemen Show, Verka Serduchka, Fajna Ukrajna, Vital’ka, and Evening Kvartal. These TV shows have not been investigated by Western, nor Ukrainian scholars. The Ukrainian TV comedy shows are examined in the context of Bakhtin’s theory of carnival and of the ideas of the Australian Slavic scholar M. Pavlyshyn who has elaborated the concepts anticolonialsim and postcolonialism in relation to contemporary Ukrainian culture.

  10. A discussion on the Bakhtin Circle

    Paromita Chakrabarti and Yulia Gradskova discuss the Bakhtin Circle with five experts in the field: Caryl Emerson, university professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures, Princeton University; Lakshmi Bandlamudi, professor of psychology at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York; Ken Hirschkop, professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario; Craig Brandist, professor of cultural theory and intellectual history and director of the Bakhtin Centre, at the University of Sheffield; and Galin Tihanov, the George Steiner professor of comparative literature at Queen Mary University of London.

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