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Gay men are carrying a history as being suspected as potential pedophiles and non-suited parents, and while the reproductive technology of transnational gestational surrogacy makes it possible for gay men to become parents within heteronormative logics, the constructions of families without a mother are looked upon as problematic at best. Through field observations and interviews with gay men, who have been or who are involved in transnational surrogacy I explore how gay men fragmentize the notion of the mother in to several positions. The article argues that the gay men are reproductive vulnerable and are negotiating and fighting for the possibility to become legible as parents inside a heteronormative and homophobic framework. This relies on their ability to diminish the mother. By activating and using misogynic and colonial discourses and strategies, the gay men eradicate the kinship positions of the surrogate and the donor, thus giving discursive and affective life to gay men's possibility to embody motherhood and parenthood.

The nations of Soviet Union. The coexistence and distraction of cultures (the literary output of Ludmila Ulitskaya)
After the October Revolution different nations were forced to live together on the area of totalitarian Soviet Union. Their history got worse after the Second World War when Soviet soldiers and especially Stalyn were considered as winners and in this way they cold "colonise" new countries. Their citizens wanted to regain freedom in the 60's and 70's od twentieth century. They were called dissidents. One of the most famous modern Russian writers who presents these subject matters is Ludmila Ulitskaya – the representative of new realism whose books have been translated into 25 languages. In her novels and short stories she concentrates mainly on the silmilarities and differences between The Russians and other nations being under communistic control. Ulitskaya shows that some of them wanted to keep their identity by looking after their own tradition, religion, customs. The novelist tries to prove that it is possible to coexist with each other if you respect different habits and culture and if you desire to communicate with others using constructive dialogue.

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Die Sinnlichkeit des Sozialen -- I. Die affektive Macht der Dinge -- Einleitung -- Das Wuchern der Dinge -- Ein Modernismus ohne Modernisierung -- Leibliche Interaktion mit Dingen, Sachen und Halbdingen -- Affekt. Macht. Dinge -- Die Sprache der Dinge -- II. Die atmosphärische Komposition von Architekturen -- Einleitung -- Eine Architektur der Einfühlung -- Missionierende Räume? -- Die Aussicht -- Sinnreiche Bewegungen -- A Conversation with Jane M. Jacobs -- III. Die Entgrenzung künstlerischer Praktiken -- Einleitung -- Existenzweisen musikalischer Performanz -- Sinn als verkörperte Sinnlichkeit -- Blinde Flecken vor grauem Putz -- Sensible Ethnographien -- A Conversation with Peter Osborne -- IV. Die Professionalisierung sinnlicher Expertisen -- Einleitung -- Zwischen Formalisierbarkeit und Intuition -- Sehen professionell Sehen -- V. Herausforderungen und Potentiale einer Soziologie der Sinne -- Einleitung -- Simmels Sinn der Sinne -- Sinne und Praktiken -- Autorinnen und Autoren -- Backmatter

Intro -- Inhalt -- Einleitung: Regionale politische Kultur im Vergleich -- Einführung -- Forschungsstand -- Aufbau und Struktur des Bandes -- Ausblick: Unterschiede als Krisenphänomen oder Chance? -- Danksagung -- Literaturverzeichnis -- I Übergreifende Fragestellungen -- Die Analyse regionaler politischer Kultur - Stärken und Schwächen der Forschung -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 "Regionale politische Kultur": trans- und subnational -- 3 Die Erforschung (regionaler) politischer Kultur bis zur Wiedervereinigung -- 4 Der Ost-West-Vergleich nach 1989/90: dominant, aber defizitär -- 5 Subnationale Politische-Kultur-Vergleiche quantitativer Art -- 6 Qualitative Analysen regionaler politischer Kultur -- 7 Die Analyse regionaler politischer Kultur: kein neues, aber ein unterentwickeltes Forschungsfeld -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Empirische Befunde zur regionalen politischen Kultur -- 1 Einleitung - Regionale politische Kultur -- 2 Politische Kultur - Genese eines Konzeptes -- 3 Was ist politische Kultur - Begriffsdiskussion und Konzeptionalisierung -- 4 Ergebnisse der politischen Kulturforschung mit regionalem Bezug -- 5 Zusammenfassung - Regionale politische Kulturen, aber eine gemeinsame politische Kultur in Deutschland -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Regionale politische Kulturen im deutschen Föderalismus -- 1 Deutschlands als "Außenseiter" der Identitätspolitik -- 2 Regionale Identität und Föderalismus -- 3 Regionale Identität und die Politik der föderalen Wirtschaftsförderung -- 4 Der "zweigeteilte" Deutsche -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Regieren in regionalen Kontexten - Auf der Suche nach politisch-kulturellen Variablen -- 1 Eingrenzung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes -- 2 Die Strukturmerkmale des Regierens -- 3 Zusammenfassung -- Literaturverzeichnis -- II Regionale politische Kultur in Länderperspektive.

There is considerable geographical overlap between areas set aside for nature conservation or protection and Indigenous peoples' lands, and the social, economic, and political consequences of protected areas have often been extensive for Indigenous peoples. Discourses of conservation converge with discourses of Indigenous peoples, and both carry a legacy of colonial constructs and relationships. With these overlaps as a point of departure, the purpose of this thesis is to explore how the discourses that govern nature conservation and protected areas shape the conditions for Indigenous peoples' influence and participation in the governance and management of protected areas on their lands. I pursue this aim by analyzing, and critically examining the consequences of, the construction of Indigenous subject positions and conditions for agency in discourses of nature conservation and protected areas. The empirical focus of the thesis lies with international discourses of protected areas and Indigenous peoples and on local and national discourses articulated in relation to two cases of protected areas in Sápmi. My analytical framework builds on postcolonial theory and discourse theory. I use space for agency as a concept to describe and analyze the effects of the discursive positionings and constructions that shape the ability or capacity of individuals or group to act or to be perceived as legitimate actors. My results show twomain articulations of Indigenous subject positions in protected area discourses, which enable and restrain the space for Indigenous agency in different ways. One articulation connects Indigenous peoples to conservation through the concept of traditional knowledge, thereby positioning Indigenous subjects mainly as holders of traditional knowledge and justifying Indigenous influence by its potential contribution to conservation objectives. The other articulation focuses on the rights pertaining to Indigenous peoples as peoples, including land rights and the right to selfdetermination. These articulations are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but they have potentially different consequences and indicate discursive tensions that can affect the space for Indigenous agency in relation to protected areas. Moreover, my results demonstrate the hegemony of discourses that takes conservation through area protection for granted and subordinates Indigenous land use to conservation objectives, structure Indigenous agency as "participation" in specific types of arrangement, and articulate Indigenous rights in relation to hegemonic constructions of sovereignty, self-determination, and rights. These hegemonic formations silence articulations that would challenge the authority of colonizing societies over Indigenous territories, suppress radical critique of the fundamental nature of arrangements for protected area governance and management, and subdue alternatives to discourses of contemporary liberal democracy and individual property rights.

The author considers Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual formula where [(habitus) (capital)] + field = practice and brings it to the field of international migration. She proves that a complete, cohesive application of Bourdieu's theory in migration studies has much greater heuristic potential than the use of isolated individual concepts—it enables a new view of the social world where international migration constitutes an inherent part. It aims at explaining such phenomena as transnational habitus, forms of capital in migration process, migratory field, and transnational practices.

This article contains the results of research and analyses concerning the administrative elite forming in contemporary Poland. Particular attention is paid to relations between politics and the administration and between civil servants and politicians, as well as to the manner in which the administrative elite perceive their tasks and responsibilities. The article is based on in-depth interviews conducted in 2013 with 50 department directors and vice directors in Polish ministries.

In this essay, the author addresses the question of Ukraine's and Russia's relations with the West in the modern and contemporary era. He believes that the revolution in Ukraine in 2013/2014 signifies a successive stage in Ukraine's emancipation and modernization, which began with the emergence of a separate nation on its territory in the 19th century. The author is in favor of the further use of such conceptual categories as the 'centre', the 'periphery', and 'modernization'. He thinks they still permit the description of the real developmental distance between different parts of the world and the analysis of strategies aimed at diminishing that distance. In his opinion, Ukraine's present chance for modernization is unambiguously connected with its choice of the 'western' road of development. He interprets the Russian attempt to counteract this choice by force as an expression of the disappointment experienced by the elite of the former empire. In essence, it is a sign that Russia is remaining in a peripheral situation in regard to the West, which is 'escaping' it.

U ovom članku autor se bavi diskurzivnim taktikama koje su pridonijele dekonstrukciji i rekonstruciji supkulturalnih poetika i njihova političkog okvira zadanog vladajućim hijerarhijama suvremenih hegemonijskih nomenklatura u jugoistočnoj Europi. U radu se ne raspravlja o svim aspektima i kompleksnim odnosima koji vladaju u tom interkulturalnom i povremeno multikulturalnom prostoru, već se u središtu nalaze načini suodnošenja popularne kulture i političke moći koja ju je distribuirala u medijski i novomedijski prostor. U središtu se nalazi hrvatska popularna kultura (prije svega glazbena) 1980-ih i 1990-ih te načini na koji je ona kanonizirana, rekanonizirana, odnosno brisana iz kolektivnog pamćenja i rekonstruirana (konstruirana) u novopolitičkim jezicima pojedinih postjugoslavenskih novokapitalističkih nacionalnih elita. U svojoj osnovi riječ je o analizama taktika ostvarenih u politici konstrukcije popularne kulture koja je vremenom postala oruđem politike. U ovom radu također se pronalaze i mogućnosti obrnutog gledanja na problem, pogotovo promatrano komparativno, u šire zamišljenom (zapadnoeuropskom) kontekstu. Tekst je prije svega teorijski i pokušava dati okvire za konkretna čitanja/konstrukcije suvremene povijesti i poetike popularne kulture uokvirene zadanošću političkim i medijskim hegemonijskim pritiskom. U prvom dijelu daje se pregled modaliteta narativa kojima se hegemonijskim upisivanjem u medije i nove medije provodio proces poticanja gubitka pamćenja te rekodiranja narativnih paradigmi i prihvaćenih stereotipa. Opisuju se učinci prekodiranja vrijednosnog sustava iz perspektive uspostave nove hijararhije vrijednosti u odnosu potisnutih i obnovljenih ideologema i mitologema. U tom kontekstu istražuje se kako je taj proces kodiran u lokalnim supkulturalnim praksama, a u središtu je popularna (rock) glazba i supkultura koja se uz nju oblikuje (ili: iz koje je ona oblikovana). Slijedi čitanje kulturalnih praksi kroz koje su se nacionalno i nacionalističko nametnule kao prevladavajuće paradigme upisivanja popularne kulture u prostor i virtualnu stvarnost. Izučavaju se prije svega modaliteti u kojima su se ti procesi odvi(ja)li. U zadnjem dijelu rada ispisuju se odnosi između prvotne uloge (rock) supkulture kao "otpora" hegemoniji do njezinog smještanja u prostor zabave. Kako se isto događa i s medijskim fenomenima koji kroz žanr (ne i supkulturu) podražavaju nacionalne narative i nacionalističku mizanscenu, to otvara nekoliko pitanja a u središtu budućih istraživanja svakako se ističe ono koje problematizira odnos žanra i ishodišta, odnosno mjesta supkulturalnog izričaja kao autohtonog glasa i njegove transformacije u medijski proizvod. Odgovori koji se nameću u tom polju bit će zanimljivi i za čitanje narativnih formi u novim medijima i u tradicionalnoj književnosti. Rad je napisan na engleskom jeziku zbog boljeg korespondiranja sa sličnim istraživanjima u drugim europskim nacionalnim posttranzicijskim kulturama. ; The article discusses the role of subculture in Croatia and wider South Slavic context during and after the transitional period from the hegemony of Yugoslav communist system to the national state and its new narratives. The introduction discusses the modalities of memory loss in regard to the Yugoslav system of values. It focuses on the situation in popular culture and the new media, arguing that the process of memory loss has been orchestrated by the new national hegemony in both the media and politics and in the subcultural environment of marginal groups. The emphasis is put on the discursive tactics that have contributed to this process in the public sphere. The second part of the article concentrates on the relationship between the private and the public spheres and pays special attention to the relation between spontaneous subcultural practices and orchestrated mass-cultural outlets that very often construct the sphere of popular cultural needs. It is argued that the modalities of re-constructing and re-directing the narrative as an ethical (ethnic and political) issue remain an important topic not only for a better understanding of popular culture's hegemonic order but also for the modalities of survival of the narrative as a literary autonomous field.

This article was written on the basis of the project 'See Culture: The Archive of Visual Materials from Research into Culture in Poland' conducted in 2014. It speaks of the internet creation of a social database using visual materials—the Visual Archive (archiwumwizualne.pl). The authors present their findings from interviews with members of the research teams and directors of the projects that were included in the internet archive. These primarily concern the various approaches and research practices of the interlocutors and their definitions of visual material's potential as a tool in social research. The profiles of the researchers presented earlier is then compared to the category of the practice-oriented intellectual, which broadens the classical understanding of the intellectual and points to an emerging manner of thinking about research practice in contemporary social sciences. The usefulness of the Visual Archive for the practice-oriented intellectual is indicated.