"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2015)
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),
This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision t...
‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception
Journal Article
Brown, S. (2015)
‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(3), 312-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.950983
Much research suggests that attitudes towards responsibility for use of contraception amongst young people are strongly gendered. However, decision making, if ‘decisions’ happ...
On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?
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Kulpa, R. (2014)
On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?. Sexualities, 17(7), 781-801. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714531431
In this article I ask why gay and lesbian people in Poland mourned their infamously homophobic president Lech Kaczynski, and, in turn, what it means to mourn one's own enemy. ...
Western Leveraged Pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of Homophobia, Tolerance, and Nationhood
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Kulpa, R. (2014)
Western Leveraged Pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of Homophobia, Tolerance, and Nationhood. Gender, Place and Culture, 21(4), 431-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.793656
This article focuses on the relations between the two geo-temporal categories – Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and West/Europe – in discussions about sexual politics, homoph...
Is counselling necessary? Making the decision to have an abortion. A qualitative interview study.
Journal Article
Brown, S. (2013)
Is counselling necessary? Making the decision to have an abortion. A qualitative interview study. European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 18, 44-48. https://doi.org/10.3109/13625187.2012.750290
Objectives To explore young women’s decision-making about having an abortion, in particular, how they reached the decision and with whom they discussed it.
Methods Qualitative...
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate)
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Mizielińska, J., & Kulpa, R. (2013)
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate). Southeastern Europe, 37(1), 102-110. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763332-03701007
Central and Eastern European Sexualities ‘in Transition’. Reflections on Queer Studies, Academic Hegemonies, and Critical Epistemologies
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Kulpa, R., & Mizielińska, J. (2012)
Central and Eastern European Sexualities ‘in Transition’. Reflections on Queer Studies, Academic Hegemonies, and Critical Epistemologies. lambda nordica, 17(4), 19-29
Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK
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Botterill, K. (2011)
Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK. Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 6(1),
Mobility' is a zeitgeist of the European Union. European enlargement and the removal of borders in Central and Eastern Europe has reinvigorated geographical mobility in Europe...