THE BLACK PROTESTS: A STRUGGLE FOR (RE)DEFINITION OF INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP
THE BLACK PROTESTS: A STRUGGLE FOR (RE)DEFINITION OF INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP
Author(s): Magdalena Pluta, Radosław Nawojski, Katarzyna ZielińskaSubject(s): Gender Studies, Politics and society, Evaluation research, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: intimate citizenship; reproductive rights; women’s rights; public sphere;
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on an analysis of the redefinitions of the visions of intimate citizenship in the arenas created by the recent women’s protests in Poland. The 2016 and 2018 attempts by the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament, to introduce amendments to the existing law regulating access to abortion in Poland stirred dramatic social mobilisations and widespread social protests labelled with the umbrella term “Black Protests”. We see these mobilisations not only as a protest, but also as attempt to (re)define dominant notions of citizenship, and in particular, as a quest for a new model of intimate citizenship, i.e. a public reconceptualisation of the rights regarding the private/intimate sphere. Our article offers an in-depth analysis of these reconceptualisations.
Journal: Praktyka teoretyczna
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 51-74
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English