UkrEng

“European Others”: Сonstruction of Europeanness and Logics of Racialization

Review
Lesia Pagulich
https://doi.org/10.52323/299882
January 2018
The book European Others, by pointing out race as inherent to current European thought, disrupts the dominant narrative of Europe as a raceless continent and reminds that the concept of race and race-based policies inherent to colonial empires originated in Europe and were exported all over the world, while Europe remains marginal in discussions of race and racism, especially in relation to the U.S., which is regarded as a center of racism. The book contributes to scholarly and activist discussions of European forms of racialization that obtain little attention because of their deviation from the dominant discourse around race, whereas racelessness maintains racial thinking and its effects invisible. In its discussion of race, the book situates Europe within the wider context of colorblind ideologies and characterizes it by the combination of race and religion, and the externalization of racialized populations, while producing a homogeneous European entity, however, portrayed as an “inclusive” and “postnational” community.
UkrEng

How to Embroider Feminism: Schemes and Technics

Review
Nataliia Martynenko
May 2017

"TEXTUS" is not a propaganda of gender inequality with an opposite meaning, notes Oksana Bryukhovetska, the curator of the exhibition. Instead, it is a field for feminist reflections of Ukrainian contemporary artists on a socially constructed patriarchal image of a woman. Embroidery and textiles are the artists' tools for expressing their critical views on what is perceived as a "norm" that, simultaneously, can be painful, defeating or unjust. (The full text is available in Ukrainian.)

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