Papers by Pauliina Lukinmaa
Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research, 2022
Who are we: a tree without any roots, or a part of centuries-long resistance against artificial n... more Who are we: a tree without any roots, or a part of centuries-long resistance against artificial normalization of bodies, sexualities, and self-expression? How do we experience the intersection of LGBTI identities and our religions and traditions?-(QueerFest 2018, St. Petersburg, author's translation) The quotation above was published on a web page of QueerFest, 1 an international human rights festival dedicated to consolidating the LGBTQI+ 2 community, bringing visibility to and celebrating "otherness," and promoting queer rights through culture and the arts. The event, organized by the local civic initiative group Vykhod ("Coming out") in St. Petersburg, Russia, has taken place annually at the end of September since 2009. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants to art exhibitions, theatrical performances, music concerts, discussions, film viewings, etc. In 2018, the
QUEERFEMINIST SOLIDARITY AND THE EAST/WEST DIVIDE, 2019
SQS – Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti, 2023
acted as opponents in the public examination. The Custodian was Professor Jaana Vuori (University... more acted as opponents in the public examination. The Custodian was Professor Jaana Vuori (University of Eastern Finland).
Idäntutkimus, Nov 24, 2021
lambda nordica, Feb 18, 2020
vithet: Om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga och temporala villkor. PhD diss. Stockholm: Leopard.... more vithet: Om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga och temporala villkor. PhD diss. Stockholm: Leopard. (315 pages) "WE ARE THE trashy sisters of Swedish women," laments "Valda," a Russian woman living in Stockholm. While having had experiences of racism through being called "white trash," overly sexual, and even being referred to as a "Russian prostitute," she had also been discriminated as a poshlost (a concept referring to someone who tastelessly imitates the modern, and thus is time-frozen in the past) object by the Swedish majority. This hierarchically constructed interplay of time and place in Russian femininity builds up the setting for Maria Lönn's ambitious PhD dissertation, Bruten vithet: Om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga och temporala villkor (translated by me to "Broken Whiteness: On the Sensual and Temporal Conditions of Russian Femininity"). Lönn's research employs the lenses of critical whiteness studies and theorizes the multi-sensuality and inter-corporeality of the body through the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Lönn makes fascinating use of this theoretical combination by looking at the subject's embodied experience in different settings. She depicts whiteness as lived and embodied identity, but also as constructed performativity (Butler 1990) and stylized femininity. Located and temporal constructions of whiteness realize themselves in the dissertation as learned
Thesis Chapters by Pauliina Lukinmaa
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Papers by Pauliina Lukinmaa
Thesis Chapters by Pauliina Lukinmaa