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 where she focusses on feminism and queer studies. In 2012, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship.
She is a co-editor in chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.
Publications
Postsovetskii feminizm: ukrainskii variant, Gendernye issledovaniia, 17(2008):193Journal 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 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)Theology and the Political: Theo-political Reflections on Contemporary Politics in Ecumenical Conversation. (2020). Netherlands: Brill. p230 Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk, Radykalnyi Femen i novyi zhinochyi aktyvizm, (English: Radical "Femen" and new women's activism) Krytyka 11 (December 2010): 7–10Sperling, V. (2015). Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p.239 & 242SONEVYTSKY, 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. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=118171505&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 18 abr. 2022. 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.
See also
Relevant topics
Femen Women in Ukraine
Ukrainian feminist scholars
Vira Ageyeva Tamara Martsenyuk Irina Zherebkina
References
External links
Publications list Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies