Olga Plakhotnik

Olga Plakhotnik (sometimes Olha Plakhotnik) a Canada-based Ukrainian social philosopher, editor, writer, and academic focused on feminism and queer studies.

She is noted for her analysis of feminism at the Euromaidan protests and for her publication Radical "Femen" and new women's activism. Plakhotnik is a co-editor in chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.

Career

Plakhotnik is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Alberta^[1] where she focusses on feminism and queer studies.^[2] In 2012, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship.^[3]

She is a co-editor in chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.^[4][5]

Publications

• Postsovetskii feminizm: ukrainskii variant, Gendernye issledovaniia, 17(2008):193^[6]
• Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk, Ukrainian Feminism at the Crossroad of National, Postcolonial, and (Post)Soviet: Theorizing the Maidan Events 2013–2014,” Krytyka (November 2015)^[7][8]
• Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk, Radykalnyi Femen i novyi zhinochyi aktyvizm, (English: Radical "Femen" and new women's activism) Krytyka 11 (December 2010): 7–10^[7][9][10]
• Book chapter “Safety” Under the Question: Contesting Competences and Affects in a Feminist Classroom in Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education: Adventurous Encounters, edited by Edyta Just and Wera Grahn, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Chapter in Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine by: Frear, Matthew, Europe-Asia Studies, 09668136, Jan2014, Vol. 66, Issue 1

Personal life

Plakhotnik lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[2]

See also

Relevant topics

• Femen
• Women in Ukraine

Ukrainian feminist scholars

• Vira Ageyeva
• Tamara Martsenyuk
• Irina Zherebkina

References

1. "Olga Plakhotnik - Directory@UAlberta". apps.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
2. "Olga Plakhotnik". Krytyka. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
3. "Olga Plakhotnik | Fulbright Scholar Program". cies.org. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
4. "From the Editors of Feminist Critique: On the Launch of the Journal's Website". Krytyka. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
5. "Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik | Ukrainian Feminisms and the Issue of Coloniality". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
6. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 2016/1: Gender, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. (2016). Germany: Columbia University Press. p143
7. Nikolayenko, Olena; DeCasper, Maria (25 October 2018). "Why Women Protest: Insights from Ukraine's EuroMaidan". Slavic Review. 77 (3): 726–751. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.207. ISSN 0037-6779.
8. Theology and the Political: Theo-political Reflections on Contemporary Politics in Ecumenical Conversation. (2020). Netherlands: Brill. p230
9. Sperling, V. (2015). Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p.239 & 242
10. SONEVYTSKY, M. The Freak Cabaret on the Revolution Stage: On the Ambivalent Politics of Femininity, Rurality, and Nationalism in Ukrainian Popular Music. Journal of Popular Music Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), [s. l.], v. 28, n. 3, p. 291–314, 2016. doi:10.1111/jpms.12174 Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=118171505&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 18 abr. 2022.

External links

• Publications list
• Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies