THE BLACK PROTESTS: A STRUGGLE FOR (RE)DEFINITION OF INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP

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 acc...

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Published inPraktyka Teoretyczna no. 30; pp. 51 - 74
Main Authors Pluta, Magdalena, Nawojski, Radosław, Zielińska, Katarzyna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza 2018
Adam Mickiewicz University
Subjects
Evaluation research
Gender Studies
Politics and society
Sociology of Politics
reproductive rights
public sphere
intimate citizenship
women’s rights
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2081-8130
2081-8130