Euroacademia Conferences
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (9th Edition)April 24 - 25, 2020
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (9th Edition)June 12 - 13, 2020
8th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainJanuary 24 - 25, 2020
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (7th Edition)December 13 - 14, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (8th Edition)October 25 - 26, 2019
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (8th Edition)June 28 - 29, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (7th Edition)January 25 - 26, 2019- 7th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainNovember 23 - 24, 2018
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (8th Edition)September 28 - 30, 2018- Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (7th Edition)June 14 - 15, 2018
Papers
The Great Need of Solidarity: The Strategic Essentialism of the Black Protest in Poland
This essay explores the current situation in Poland as regards the recently proposed complete abortion ban. I will try to describe the mechanism of the nationalist discourse, which is increasingly popular in the public sphere of the country. According to this narrative, a woman is considered someone who reproduces race, capital and patriarchal system through her dependence, sexual and mental passivity, home-boundedness, and symbolic as well as physical isolation from other women. I will then present how strategic essentialism (Spivak: 1987) can become a useful tool against the patriarchal oppression, illustrating it with the case of the Polish Black Protest (3rd of October 2016)Model Others, Identity and Globalization: Tentative Theoretical Observations from a Case Study of Parliamentary Discourse in Israel
Endogenous changes in national identity are a context that should be viewed as a catalyst for, rather than mere byproduct of, the rapid globalization that swept across Israel from the 1990s.Telling The Story of A Politicized National History: The Field and Habitus Making of Israeli Historians
While critically following the dividing line between the world of academia (with all its institutions and inner dynamics) and the general socio-political space, the generations of Israeli historians and the nature of their intellectual work (the field of ideas) form a solidly social unit to investigate.Equal in the Eyes of Capitalist God: Gay Marriage and the Contemporary Intimacy Regime
The heart of this paper will be a reading into the marital institution, positioned in the neurotic encounter point of the two capitalistic modes, hence arising overwhelming emotions of anxiety and compassion.The Question of the Political Uses of National Collective Identities
First of all, we will try to outline in a substantive way the very notion of “National Collective Identity”, in order to clarify consequently how this notion can be used in a political manner, with the aim to reach normative conclusions about the issue. However, this idea of “National Collective Identity” will be mainly considered regarding our liberal scenarios, which include some important moral restrictions, and it will be argued, in this way, that no really comprehensive idea of nation can be reached regarding those scenarios without paying attention to those moral restrictions.Make America White Again: Revaluating Whiteness Currency in the United States
I take a look at the construction of whiteness, and the present state of white subjectivity in the United States, and in the process, examine American 'national consciousness'. Using some basic economic concepts of currency value, I draw an analogy between fluctuations in the value of currencies, often generated by market pressures and the cultural and social changes in the perception and status of the races, which are often generated by sociopolitical pressuresHow Do the Social Norms and Expectations Influence Individual Behavior? Quantum Model of Self/Other Interaction in the Strategic Decision-Making
This paper presents a quantitative model of the self - and the other - perspective interaction based on so called 'quantum model of decision-making'. This approach models a given situation as the vector in N-dimensional vector space (C*-algebra) and it specifies the probabilities of the individual outcomes. Specifically, the model enables to define how the actor's expectation about others influence her decision (and vice versa). The model was designed for the strategic interaction of two players and tested in the case of one shot Prisoner`s Dilemma game.Neoliberal Occupation: Framing the Israeli J14 Movement Collective Identity by State Bureaucracy
This study focuses on the interpretation and construction of the Israeli J14 protest movement collective identity by state bureaucracy. The analysis focuses on the Trachtenberg committee which was assigned by Israeli prime minister in order to meet the demands of the demonstrators. By conducting critical discourse analysis this study wishes to reveal the ways in which Israeli state bureaucrats used specific interpretative frames which served their political interests regarding the J14 movement.Using Melucci’s Model of Collective Identity and Action System Today: The Case of the Hacktivist Movement Anonymous
This paper discusses the popular model of collective identity of Alberto Melucci, how it has been used in the academia, what are its shortcomings and how they can be superseded. Melucci’s collective identity model is almost always referred to in academic publications dealing with collective identity in social movements. Yet, the model is never fully used. The present article focuses on the part of the model that is most of the time overlooked, that is the ‘action system’.Political Subjectivization between Identification and Dis-identification – Understanding New Social Movements with Jacques Rancière
I would like to argue that more recent social movements are thoroughly affectively attuned assemblages that are characterized nonetheless by their preliminarity and their unpredictability. Their members oscillate between moments of identification and dis-identification and expose themselves in their singularity.
