10 research outputs found
Range expansion of Kuhl’s Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) into Belarus
No full textThe history and directions of the expansion of Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) in Russia, Ukraine and Central Europe from the second half of the 20th century to the present time is analyzed. Data on records of Kuhl’s pipistrelle in Belarus are presented. It is assumed that, initially, the invasion of P. kuhlii into Belarus occurred from the eastern center of its distribution (Azerbaijan) and range expansion will take place in northwest direction along the rivers of the Dnipro and Prypiat basins. Colonization of the western part of Belarus from northwestern Ukraine is highly expected
Специальное обследование репродуктивного здоровья населения: анализ и результаты
No full textThe results of the mini-survey on reproductive health of population in Minsk held by the author are presented. Output data is analyzed, main directions for using of the information obtained while developing state social programmes are reviewed.Представлены результаты авторского мини-обследования репродуктивного здоровья населения в г. Минске. Проанализированы результаты мини-обследования, рассмотрены основные направления использования полученной информации при разработке государственных социальных программ
Reproductive health survey in Belarus
No full textIn this paper the author combines available national statistics with the spe-
cialized sampling frames construction. The author also suggests the ways of
improvement of reproductive health estimation in Belarus
Reproductive health survey in Belarus
No full textIn this paper the author combines available national statistics with the spe-
cialized sampling frames construction. The author also suggests the ways of
improvement of reproductive health estimation in Belarus
The Mothers’ Index As An Indicator Of Demographic Security
No full textThe Mothers’ Index was developed in 1998 and has been in use for ranking countries since 2000. The author advocates that this indicator should not only be used for cross-country analysis of maternal and child health but also as be part of the demographic indicators of national security in Belarus. A grouping of more developed countries in terms of the Mothers’ Index is proposed. The Mothers’, the Women’s and the Children’s Indices from 2007 to 2009 are calculated for Belarus, the post-Soviet countries and some EU countries
Digitalized Branded Speaking Subject or New Media Consumption Culture Politics to Change Communication
No full textThe paper is dedicated to the digitalized branded speaking subject who is the product of powerful new media politics within the frameworks of postmod299
ern communication change in its digital and brand constituents. This subject is simultaneously a consumer and a co-creator of a digital product, i. e. a prosumer. The following tasks are realized in the paper: 1) to show that the postmodern speaking subject has gained a new status in the postmodern communication space — digitalized branded; 2) to prove that this status is acquired with the help of new media; 3) to analyze the digitalized branded speaking subject as whether the new status is an advancement of his/her identity or submission to new media powerful politics, so it is the latter to give false feeling of free, true and everywhere-presence communication via social networking for the postmodern digitalized speaking subject. The research core terms «new media» and «the digitalized branded speaking subject» are defined by the author as «a new type of communication for the speaking subject in the digital era incorporated within new technologies’ and «the e-communication subject under brand power politics influence» respectively. Nike Company is taken as an example of the digitalized-branded-subject-of-new-media-consumption-politics emergence by analyzing Nike Company website trough e-communication between the company and its customer from registration, finding the company in social networks, buying Nike goods online with the possible comment giving and evaluation to becoming a company member by creating a free Nike+ account that gives belonging to the brand and this brand loyalty and also Nike tips-advice-and-recommendation expert live chat with non-English-speaking subject exclusion politics. Nevertheless, the speaking subject is the company product prosumer, though he/she is still under new media powerful politics as it is the company that offers the very e-communication to the speaking subject.
Keywords: digitalized branded speaking subject, powerful politics,Статтю присвячено суб’єктові-мовцю, що є продуктом владних політик нових медіа в межах зміни постмодерної комунікації у її електронної та брендової складових. Цей суб’єкт водночас виступає споживачем та співстворювачем електронного продукту, тобто просюмером
ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT ZONES IN SINGLE-INDUSTRY URBAN SETTLEMENTS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS (THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KARELIA)
No full text<p>The Russian Federation is currently moving to a new model of spatial development of its economy, also by creating areas of advanced social and economic development. The Far Eastern Federal District was the first in establishing of such special regime territories. In 2014, the process spread to single-industry urban settlements. In this case, the main purpose is to develop business enterprises not connected with the townforming enterprise. For the Republic of Karelia, issues related to monotowns cities are relevant. On the territory of the republic there are eleven mononowns, and two of them contain territories of advanced development, i.e. «Nadvoitsy» and «Kondopoga». The purpose of this article is to assess the functioning of the zones of advanced development and their impact on the development of the region, as well as to identify problems<br />and develop proposals for their elimination. The research employed such general scientific methods and techniques as induction and deduction, synthesis, comparative and comparable analysis. The article reveals the features and the role of the territories of advanced social and economic development in the economic development of the country and the region in particular, as exemplified by the Republic of Karelia. The study has identified the problems of the zones and their development. The author proposes a number of specific measures to improve the efficiency of advanced development zones</p></jats:p
Особенности этнополитической ситуации на постсоветском пространстве и, в частности, в независимой Украине
No full textУ даній статті автор ставить за мету прослідкувати динаміку розвитку і можливі перспективи регулювання міжетнічних конфліктів на пострадянському просторі, наявність яких визначає особливості сучасної етнополітичної ситуації. Також акцентується увага на їх потенційних наслідках, що можуть відчутно вплинути на загальнодержавну безпеку.In the article the author intends to trace development dynamics, possible regulation trends for post-soviet area interethnic conflicts, presence of which is an attribute of the current ethno-political environment. There is also an emphasis on their potential outcomes that can significantly influence national security.В данной статье автор прослеживает динамику развития и возможные перспективы регулирования конфликтов на постсоветском пространстве, наличие которых определяет особенности современной этнополитической ситуации. Также акцентируется внимание на их потенциальных последствиях, которые могут существенно повлиять на общегосударственную безопасность
Ethnic stereotypes and their impact on the level of national tolerance
No full textЕтнічні стереотипи являють собою спрощене, емоційне уявлення особи або групи щодо представників тієї або іншої етнічної спільноти. Вони визначають симпатії та антипатії, що виникають в процесі міжетнічної комунікації. У запропонованій статті автор аналізує особливості формування та шляхи розповсюдження негативних етнічних стереотипів, а також наслідки їх впливу на соціальну поведінку. Дослідження цього явища дозволяє також визначити рівень національної толерантності в поліетнічному суспільстві.Ethnic stereotypes show by itself the emotional simplified presentatives of person or groups in relation to there of that or ethnic association. They determine liking and arise up in the process of interethnic communication. In the offered article an author analyses the features of forming and ways of distribution negative ethnic stereotypes, and also possible consequences of their influence on a social behavior. Research of this phenomenon also allows to defines the level of national tolerance in poliethnic society. Formation and mass distribution of negative psychological settings, stereotypes and attitudes complicates communication, facilitating the spread of xenophobia and ethnic bias, causing (or exacerbating existing) conflicts of ethnic violence. Thus, the study of the formation and effects of ethnic stereotypes, the dynamics of national tolerance level, is one of the key scientific problems, especially in multi-ethnic society. The purpose of the article is in learning the basic ways and peculiarities of negative ethnic stereotypes (for example, the field of ethnic states) and the level of their impact on international relations. So, try to determine what factors contribute to the formation, distribution and consolidation in the mass consciousness of negative ethnic stereotypes that, in fact, are the product of interethnic interaction. First, is the action mechanism of historical memory. Another factor, that contributes to the formation of negative stereotypes, a growing number of illegal immigrants. Mean while increased migration of a large number of ethnic diasporas in Ukraine and the lack of effective mechanisms of social and cultural integration generate another problem: the growth of so-called «ethnic crime». More danger is increasing and promoting far-right radical ideas. As you can see, the nature of interethnic relations and the level of their conflictogenic depends not only on the characteristics of political, socio-economic and other systems, but also on the level of intercultural communication. Some ethnic groups are permanently at risk – is the object of xenophobia or discrimination.Этнические стереотипы представляют собой упрощенное, эмоциональное представление индивида или группы по отношению к представителям той или иной этнической общности. Они определяют симпатии и антипатии, которые возникают в процессе межэтнической коммуникации. В предложенной статье автор анализирует особенности формирования и пути распространения негативных этнических стереотипов, а также следствие их влияния на социальное поведение. Исследование данного феномена позволяет также определить уровень национальной толерантности в полиэтническом социуме
CEED (Central & East European Diasporas) Feminisms
No full textThe CEED (Central European and East European Diasporas) Feminisms programme was a collaboration between Sabrina Fuller and Helena Reckitt of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and Jessie Krish and Adomas Narkevičius of Cell Project Space, London.
The project took place from May 2023 - May 2024, at Cell Project Space, Biblioteka, as well as online. A Bibliography stemming from the collective research process was published by Cell Project Space in collaboration with the Feminist Duration Reading Group, and exhibited at 'Hope is a Discipline,' as part of the October Salon, Belgrade.
Comprising three meetings at Cell Project Space, London, two online meetings, and one online film screening, and a Bibliography launch, it was a collaboration with Sabrina Fuller and Helena Reckitt of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and Jessie Krish in collaboration with Adomas Narkevičius at Cell Project Space. The CEED Feminisms: Art Practices and British Central Eastern European Diaspora Research Group was funded by the British Art Network.
This public research group and events programme explored the role of feminist thinking in constructing cultural narratives about Central Eastern Europe and British Central Eastern European diaspora. It responded to cultural blind spots around prejudice and xenophobia in the UK towards the 'Eastern European' immigrant, sharpened by Russia’s war in Ukraine, and by Brexit. The programme aimed to hold space for mutual support, curiosity and learning, thus opposing the UK's hostile environment.
Programme:
1. CEED Feminisms: Art Practices and British Central Eastern European Diaspora Research Group
May 4 2023, Cell Project Space
Public Research Meeting
This first meeting launched this public research group devoted to feminism and art practices from the British Central Eastern European diaspora. The meeting established initial ideas for a reading groups, curated events, and a bibliography exploring intersectional feminisms past and present from the region. Creating spaces of mutual support, curiosity and learning that oppose the UK's hostile environment, the research group responds to cultural blind spots around prejudice and xenophobia in the UK towards the 'Eastern European' immigrant, sharpened by Russia’s war in Ukraine, and by Brexit.
Activities departed from the following questions:
• How can contemporary and historical Central Eastern European feminisms reorient contemporary British cultural discourses about CEE, including the figure of the CEE 'migrant' in Britain?
• What is the role of English language translation as a tool for the dissemination of contemporary and historical feminist thought between Central Eastern Europe and Britain, and feminist solidarity? How does this reproduce problematic power dynamics between ‘East’ and ‘West’?
• How are artists changing narratives about the Central Eastern European diaspora in Britain and embracing intersectional CEE identities?
2. Decentering Western Feminisms
September 21 2023, Cell Project Space
Reading Group and Discussion
The meeting considered the specificities of Central Eastern European feminisms inflected by postsocialism, continuities in postsocialist and postcolonial feminisms and routes to decentring Western Feminisms. Extracts from Ewa Majewska's Feminist Antifascism (2021), focus the case of postsocialist neoliberal Poland, a ‘semi-peripheral state’ through the lens of the legacy of Polish 1980s trade union-led social movement Solidarność, weak resistance, and public protest, to situate feminism as a political antithesis to fascism. In counterpoint, Madina Tlostanova, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, and Redi Koobak's ‘Border thinking and disidentification,’(2016) advocates for transversal dialogues and ‘volatile but effective coalitions between postsocialist and postcolonial feminists,’, proposing tools for a feminist practice that escapes the terms of feminism's 'Western' hegemonic centre.
Together we read out loud from:
- Ewa Majewska (2021), 'Introduction: Why Should We Reclaim the Public?,' Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common, Verso
- Madina Tlostanova, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, and Redi Koobak (2016), 'Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues,'
Feminist Theory, 17(2), pp. 7-14
3. Transnational Feminist Solidarity in War
October 4 2023, Online
Out Loud Reading and Discussion
Ukrainian scholars and activists Irina Zherebkina, Sergey Zherebkin and Victoria Larchenko, members of the editorial team of the 2022 journal Gender Studies No. 26 (Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies), led this online meeting exploring the dynamics and possibilities of transnational feminist solidarity in the face of Russia's war in Ukraine. Bringing together contributions from feminists based internationally, Gender Studies No. 26 was published in dialogue with the conference ‘Transnational Feminist Solidarity with Ukrainian Feminists,’ co-organised on 9 May 2022 by Irina Zherebkina with philosopher and gender studies writer Judith Butler and sociologist Sabine Hark. The issue called for 'transnational feminist analysis of unequal and unjust power relations, neocolonial and neoliberal extraction, militarization, senseless destruction, and displacement.'
Including introductions to texts by Victoria Larchenko and Sergey Zherebkin, the first half of this session will focus on three short texts from Gender Studies No. 26, including Agnieszka Graff's account of fleeting solidarity between Polish and Ukrainian mothers in the first weeks of the war, and Anna Hájková's short essay on new engagement from Western feminists with CEE feminist perspectives with the outbreak of war, which, as the author writes, caused CEE Feminists to start 'trending'. In the second half of the session we will turn to Zherebkina's recent e-flux Notes article ‘Can the Oppressors Speak?’, considering Zherebkina's nuanced perspective on the potential of feminist speech acts – writing, publishing or reading – made in solidarity, during war.
Together we read out loud from:
- Irina Zherebkina, ‘Editorial: Feminism, War, Solidarity’, Gender Studies No. 26, pp. 1-3
- Agnieszka Graff, ‘Solidarity with Ukraine, or: why East-West still Matters to Feminism’, Gender Studies No. 26, pp.1-5
- Anna Hájková, ‘The Crumbs from your table’, Gender Studies No. 26, pp. 1-3
- Irina Zherebkina, ‘Can the Oppressors Speak?’, e-flux notes, 26 May 2023
4. On Gendered Labour, Diasporic Experience, and 'East' to 'West' migration
November 11 2023, Cell Project Space
Artists’ Film Screening and Discussion
This afternoon session focused on artworks by feminists from and in Central and East Europe addressing labour, diasporic experience and 'east' to 'west' European migration: Sanja Iveković, Tanja Ostojić, Darija Radaković and Selma Selman. Presented artworks were Iveković’s film The Invisible Women of Erste Campus (2016), and performances including Selman’s Mercedes Matrix (2020), Ostojić's Mis(s)placed Women? Dedicated to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada (2016) and Radaković's Misplaced Woman (2015). Informed by these artworks, we considered migration as a response to the uneven social and economic impacts of post-socialist transitions to neoliberalism in Central Eastern Europe, or to conflict in the region. Reflecting on embodied experiences of labour and the circulation of goods and value, we explored forms of solidarity with all displaced womxn as a response to attempts, particularly in Western Europe and North America, to control and weaponise gendered and racialised migrant and indigenous bodies.
Moderator Lina Džuverović is a curator & Course Leader for the MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Art and a member of the FDRG Support Group. With connections to the former Yugoslavia, Džuverović's research focuses on feminist art histories and contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building.
5. Sanja Iveković: The Invisible Women of Erste Campus
January 5 2024, online
Artist’s Film Screening
An online presentation of Sanja Iveković's rarely screened film 'The Invisible Women of Erste Campus' (2016). Framed through the repetitive gestures of a day’s work, Iveković's filmic portrait of the staff who clean Erste Group bank's Vienna headquarters tracks the anonymous cleaners against the expansive architecture of the Erste Campus. The relentless activity of cleaning breaks intermittently when the women read lines of poetry written for the film by Croatian writer Aida Bagić, in their mother tongues. Unravelling connections to Central Eastern and Southern Europe, where the Erste Group provide financial services, the artist probes the conditions of the cleaning women's invisibility, giving rise to alternative representations.
6. SKAM, or the Albanian Lesson
March 20 2024, online
Reading Group
Radical Sense, a reading group based in Tirana, led this session, focused on a micro-reader on translating SCUM Manifesto, radical feminist Valerie Solanas’s 1967 polemical argument for the wholesale extermination of men. Together we collectively read Doruntina Vinca’s oral essay ‘SKAM, or the Albanian Lesson,’ 2021, followed by a discussion about the power of Solanas’s writing, the resonance of her life, and the complexities of translating SCUM Manifesto into Albanian. Radical Sense is a weekly radical feminist reading group based in Tirana, Albania. Founded in 2018 by Silvi Naçi, Doruntina Vinca, and Leah Whitman-Salkin, Radical Sense is a space for reading, listening, and thinking together.
7. CEED Feminisms Bibliography Launch, Biblioteka, London. May 15 2024. The Bibliography was launched at Biblioteka, a reference library originally from Kyiv located on the ground floor of the Architectural Association. Free copies of the printed bibliography were distributed and the essay 'The Role You Made Me Play: About Unobvious Difficulties of Studying Eastern European Art' (2022) by Ukrainian curator and scholar Asia Tsisar was read out loud by participants of the event. Tsisar's thought provoking text opened a conversation about the stakes of representing 'Central Eastern European' art and feminist practice that was continued informally with drinks.
Biographies
Lina Džuverović is a curator & Course Leader for the MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Art and a member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group’s Support Group. With connections to the former Yugoslavia, Džuverović's research focuses on feminist art histories and contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building.
Sanja Iveković is a photographer, performer, sculptor and installation artist. Known as one of the first artists in Yugoslavia to actively engage with gender difference, tackling the commodification of women’s roles with the onset of consumerism in the country, themes including representation of women and their status in society continue to be central in her work. Iveković has received numerous prizes and awards at film and video festivals, including Locarno and Montreal. She has participated in several biennials including documenta 8, 11, and 13 in Kassel and Manifesta 2 in Luxembourg, as well as in exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna; Fundació Antoni Tapiès, Barcelona, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Radical Sense is a weekly radical feminist reading group based in Tirana, Albania. Founded in 2018 by Silvi Naçi, Doruntina Vinca, and Leah Whitman-Salkin, Radical Sense is a space for reading, listening, and thinking together.
Irina Zherebkina is Professor of the Philosophy Centre of Humanitarian Education, Branch in Kharkiv, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine) and Director of the Kharkiv Centre for Gender Studies (since 1994); Editor-in-Chief of the Gender Studies Journal (since 1998), and, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics. Zherebkina's many books include Passion. Women’s Sexuality in Russia in the Era of Modernism (St. Petersburg: Alethea, 2001, 2018); Judith Butler’s War and Peace (with Sergei Zherebkin) (St. Petersburg: Alethea, 2019), and Stalinist Antigone and Feminist Intervention in Stalinism (St. Petersburg: Alethea, 2019). Since the beginning of Russian aggression in Ukraine, Zherebkina has positioned herself as a strong critic of Putin's militaristic politics in her numerous journalist publications and interviews including: 'Can the Oppressors Speak?,' e-flux Notes, 2023; 'A Ukrainian Philosopher’s Reluctant Departure from Kharkiv by Masha Gessen,' The New Yorker (2023), and 'Dispatch from Kharkiv National University,' Boston Review, 2022. Together with Judith Butler and Sabine Hark she was the organiser of the international conference 'Transnational Feminist Solidarity with Ukrainian Feminists,' on 9th May 2022.
Sergey Zherebkin is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Humanities Education, Kharkiv Branch, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His books include Unstable Ontologies in Contemporary Philosophy (St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2014); World and Peace by Judith Butler (with Irina Zherebkina) (St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2018); Cyborg-Nationalism, or Ukrainian Nationalism in the Era of Post-Nationalism (with Irina Zherebkina) (St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2019); Contemporary Western Philosophy Introduction (with Irina Zherebkina) (St.Petersburg: Aletheia, 2022). Zherebkin is currently affiliated at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Sociology
