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Culture caleidoscoop, Feb 27, 2024
Practising solidarity', was inspired by Lora Krasteva's contribution in the first issue. Krasteva... more Practising solidarity', was inspired by Lora Krasteva's contribution in the first issue. Krasteva's piece-'The civic role of cultural spaces in culture and immigration: Reflections from the Becoming […] projects'asks us to think about what solidarity means and the ways it emerges in the arts, culture, and heritage fields.¹ When we, the guest editor collective, first started to
Slavonica, Jan 2, 2020
This paper questions the innateness associated with the gender roles and gender relations while p... more This paper questions the innateness associated with the gender roles and gender relations while providing the comparative analyses of the gender roles practised in the political eras of Joseph Stalin (1922-1953) and the most recent ruling time period of Vladimir Putin (2012-present). It is further emphasized that gender roles and gender relations are not static but variable in nature. This is because they are further dependent, for their practice, upon the external factors-the variables-classified as the political factors in this research. The reason to select Russia as the case study is the silence it has been observing on the gender platforms across the world. The paper employs Judith Butler's, the American philosopher and gender theorist, gender perspective, in particular, that one's gender role cannot be solely defined on the basis of one's biological characteristics. In fact, gender roles are the relational complexes which are the result of the influence generated by the external factors on one's individual gender identity. Hence, this research concludes on the point that the changing political eras in Russia serve as the key factor for either a pre-discursive and innate or a contextualized outlook of the gender roles.
New Russian Drama is a non-stereotypical domain which provides a new dimension to twenty-first ce... more New Russian Drama is a non-stereotypical domain which provides a new dimension to twenty-first century drama. In past, dramas were given weightage depending upon language rules. In doing so, most writers could not say what they actually meant to due to lack of an ‘appropriate’ word. This paper addresses ‘how’ and ‘why’ things happen in NRD. Two plays are selected from NRD for a profound analysis of language and themes through the lens of Michel Foucault’s Genealogy. Genealogy is used to unfold the linguistic and thematic layers, find out the power relations and question what different is happening in NRD. The contemporary drama especially New Russian Drama addresses social issues while maintaining the purity and nature of those issues. This new drama is a mirror image of society. However, in bringing drama close to Russian life, it ignores the classics of Russian plays.
Culture caleidoscoop, Feb 27, 2024
Practising solidarity', was inspired by Lora Krasteva's contribution in the first issue. Krasteva... more Practising solidarity', was inspired by Lora Krasteva's contribution in the first issue. Krasteva's piece-'The civic role of cultural spaces in culture and immigration: Reflections from the Becoming […] projects'asks us to think about what solidarity means and the ways it emerges in the arts, culture, and heritage fields.¹ When we, the guest editor collective, first started to
Slavonica, Jan 2, 2020
This paper questions the innateness associated with the gender roles and gender relations while p... more This paper questions the innateness associated with the gender roles and gender relations while providing the comparative analyses of the gender roles practised in the political eras of Joseph Stalin (1922-1953) and the most recent ruling time period of Vladimir Putin (2012-present). It is further emphasized that gender roles and gender relations are not static but variable in nature. This is because they are further dependent, for their practice, upon the external factors-the variables-classified as the political factors in this research. The reason to select Russia as the case study is the silence it has been observing on the gender platforms across the world. The paper employs Judith Butler's, the American philosopher and gender theorist, gender perspective, in particular, that one's gender role cannot be solely defined on the basis of one's biological characteristics. In fact, gender roles are the relational complexes which are the result of the influence generated by the external factors on one's individual gender identity. Hence, this research concludes on the point that the changing political eras in Russia serve as the key factor for either a pre-discursive and innate or a contextualized outlook of the gender roles.
New Russian Drama is a non-stereotypical domain which provides a new dimension to twenty-first ce... more New Russian Drama is a non-stereotypical domain which provides a new dimension to twenty-first century drama. In past, dramas were given weightage depending upon language rules. In doing so, most writers could not say what they actually meant to due to lack of an ‘appropriate’ word. This paper addresses ‘how’ and ‘why’ things happen in NRD. Two plays are selected from NRD for a profound analysis of language and themes through the lens of Michel Foucault’s Genealogy. Genealogy is used to unfold the linguistic and thematic layers, find out the power relations and question what different is happening in NRD. The contemporary drama especially New Russian Drama addresses social issues while maintaining the purity and nature of those issues. This new drama is a mirror image of society. However, in bringing drama close to Russian life, it ignores the classics of Russian plays.