Rebellious Parents

Description

Parental activism movements are strengthening around the world and often spark tense personal and political debate. With an emphasis on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, this collection analyzes formal organizations as well as informal networks and online platforms which mobilize parents to advocate for change on a grassroots level. In doing so, the work collected here explores the interactions between the politics, everyday life, and social activism of mothers and fathers. From fathers' rights movements to natural childbirth to vaccination debates, these essays provide new insight into the identities and strategies applied by these movements as they confront local ideals of gender and family with global ideologies.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk
1. Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values / Tova Hojdestrand
2. "For the Sake of Our Children's Future": A Conservative Parents' Mobilization in Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk
3. (Un)deserving Parents: Constructing Parenthood and Nation in Bulgaria through New Reproductive Technologies / Ina Dimitrova
4. In the Name of the Family and Nation: Framing Fathers' Activism in Poland / Elzbieta Korolczuk and Renata E. Hryciuk
5. Civil Society and Fatherhood in the Borderlands: Promoting Active Fathers in Russian Daddy-Schools / Pelle Aberg and Johnny Rodin
6. Fathers' Activism in Contemporary Ukraine: Contradictory Positions on Gender Equality / Iman Karzabi
7. Down and Out in a "Femo-Fascist" State: the Czech Fathers' Discussion Forum / Steven Saxonberg
8. Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic / Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova
9. From Tired Parents to NGO Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of the Baltic States / Egle Sumskiene
10. The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic / Ema Hresanova
11. Parents Rebelling against the State: Emotions and Images in the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement / Katalin Fabian
12. Regional and Theoretical Lessons: New Perspectives on Civil Societies and Ambiguities toward the State, the West, and Gender Equality / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk
Index

Sujets

• Gender Studies
• Public Policy
• Human Rights
• Healthcare
• Political Science
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• Welfare economics
• Health care
• Social movement
• Ethnography
• Eastern Europe
• Russia
• Marriage
• Central Europe
• Activism
• Anthropology
• Children
• Family
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253026736
• Langue: English

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REB LLIOUS PARENTS
REB LLIOUS
Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia
PARENTS
Edited by
KATALIN F BI N
and
EL BIETA KOROLCZUK
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Names: F bi n, Katalin, editor. | Korolczuk, El bieta, editor.
Title: Rebellious parents : parental movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia / edited by Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk.
Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017017971 (print) | LCCN 2017002957 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253026736 (e-book) | ISBN 9780253026262 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253026675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Parents-Poltical activity-Europe, Eastern. | Parents-Poltical activity-Europe, Central. | Parents-Political activity-Russia (Federation)
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In grateful memory of the loving care and ever-patient, gentle support of my mother, va, who died just as the book was being completed. Her honest, humble, and always pragmatic approach as well as beautiful spirit always faithfully guided me. KF
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia | Katalin F bi n and El bieta Korolczuk
1. Nationalism and Civicness in Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Family Values | Tova H jdestrand
2. Conservative Parents Mobilization in Ukraine | Olena Strelnyk
3. Constructing Parenthood and Nation in Bulgaria through New Reproductive Technologies | Ina Dimitrova
4. In the Name of the Family and Nation: Framing Fathers Activism in Contemporary Poland | El bieta Korolczuk and Renata E. Hryciuk
5. Civil Society and Fatherhood in Russia: The Case of Daddy-Schools in Saint Petersburg | Pelle berg and Johnny Rodin
6. Fathers Activism in Ukraine: Contradictory Positions on Gender Equality | Iman Karzabi
7. Down and Out in a Femo-Fascist State: The Czech Fathers Discussion Forum | Steven Saxonberg
8. Resisting Mandatory Vaccination in the Czech Republic | Jaroslava Hasmanov Marh nkov
9. Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of the Baltic States | Egle Sumskiene
10. The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic | Ema Hre anov
11. Parents Rebelling against the State in the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement | Katalin F bi n
12. Regional and Theoretical Lessons: New Perspectives on Civil Societies and Ambiguities toward the State, the West, and Gender Equality | Katalin F bi n and El bieta Korolczuk
Index
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank several people and institutions for supporting our work and helping us to transition this book from an idea to a reality. Both S dert rn University, home to researchers focusing on Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region, and the University of Gothenburg, which specializes in the study of social movements, provided excellent infrastructural and intellectual support for our work. We were greatly assisted by the Swedish Research Council-funded research project, Institutional Constraints and Creative Solutions: Civil Society in Poland in Comparative Perspective (grant 421-2010-1706), and we extend our sincere thanks to them. We are especially grateful to Professor Kerstin Jacobsson, who in her capacity as a project leader steadfastly supported our efforts both intellectually and organizationally. Thanks are also due to Lafayette College for supporting Katalin F bi n s research and providing funding for Devon Clifton and Andrew Keck.
We would also like to thank the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) for their generous support; the contributing authors of this book presented their findings at the international workshop, Parental Movements: The Politicization of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Central and Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region, organized in May 2014 at S dert rn University, Stockholm, Sweden. The participants were invited to discuss their chapters to encourage the dialogue across different disciplines and theoretical interpretations. We wish to thank the reviewers and all the scholars who offered comments on our work and gave us constructive criticism both during the workshop at CBEES and at the seminar held at the University of Gothenburg, where we presented the main findings. We are also grateful to Agnieszka Graff, Kerstin Jacobsson, Janet Elise Johnson, and Katarzyna Wojnicka for their insightful comments. Any mistakes are, of course, ours. El bieta Korolczuk also wishes to express her gratitude to Renata E. Hryciuk, who introduced her to the theme of motherist movements and with whom she studied mothers and fathers groups in Poland. Their collaboration provided significant inspiration for this book.
We wish to thank Janice Frisch and Raina Nadine Polivka of Indiana University Press, for their careful attention and help along the way, and Robert J. Sloan, then Editor-in-Chief of Indiana University Press, for his enthusiastic support of our project. We are indebted to Lesley Cameron and Andrew Kortyna, who both offered excellent suggestions and provided generous support. We would like to acknowledge Devon Clifton and Andrew Keck for helping us to proofread and format the text. Last but not least, we are grateful to all the contributing authors of this book for their cooperative approach to this project.
REB LLIOUS PARENTS
Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia
Katalin F bi n and El bieta Korolczuk
Introduction
This volume focuses on a broad range of parental movements that have emerged in contemporary Central-Eastern Europe and Russia over the past two decades. Examples of such movements include social mobilizations of conservative parental groups against legal and discursive changes that would affect gender equality in Ukraine and Russia, Czech parents opposing mandatory vaccination of children, and fathers groups in Poland and the Czech Republic focusing on custody rights. Parental activism is increasingly visible and influential, but it has been the subject of relatively little research to date (e.g., Caiazza 2002; F bi n 2013; Hryciuk and Korolczuk 2013; Jagudina 2009; Kok 2002; Wojnicka 2013). We aim to rectify this by analyzing what we have identified as representative cases of parental movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. We hope to enrich and explain the current interpretations of social activism and civil society in the postcommunist region, which is often associated with a low level of social engagement and weak civil society, and to offer new conceptualization of mothers and fathers activism that may be applicable in other geographical contexts.
Our collection of essays aims to fill a gap in the scholarship on civil society and social movements that is both empirical and theoretical, presenting an entirely new set of observations on the developments in contemporary parental activism in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia and proposing new conceptualizations of civic activism and civil society. The authors address the following questions:
1. How have mothers, fathers, and those thinking of becoming parents responded to contemporary political, social, cultural, and economic challenges on a collective level? Under which conditions do parental movements emerge in the region?
2. If and how do the legacies of different forms of existing communism as well as the effects of contemporary neoliberal influences, globalization, and a recent nationalist-conservative turn affect the emergence, trajectory, and activities of parental movements in the respective countries?
3. Which strategies have activists used? What kind of identities and frameworks do they construct? What are the effects of parental mobilizations?
The essays in this book address these questions by examining interactions between the political sphere, everyday lives and practices, and social activism of parents and close kin. The up-to-date empirical studies included demonstrate that the identities, frames, and strategies applied by these movements are embedded both in local ideals of parenthood and gender and in the context of local civil society and citizenship, while simultaneously building on various, often conflicting, transnational ideologies and practices.
Parental Movements: Definitions and Main Themes of the Book
Parental movements include formal organizations such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as informal networks, and online platforms that mobilize people on the basis of their identities and experiences as parents; their goal is to introduce political and social changes pertaining not only to families, but to societ