Volha/ Olga Sasunkevich
Om Volha/ Olga Sasunkevich
I have joined the University of Gothenburg in 2017 as a researcher within the project "Spaces of Resistance. A Study of Gender and Sexualities in Times of Transformations" financed by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (PI Prof. Mia Liinason). Before that, I worked as a lecturer at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania.
My research interests spin around questions of gender, sexuality, migration and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. I work from the regional and transnational perspective beyond the epistemic limits of "methodological nationalism". Besides my native Belarusian and Russian, I speak fluent English and Swedish, rusty German and basic Lithuanian. I also read Polish and Ukrainian.
Together with Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė and Kristina Šliavaitė I received Huttenbach Prize 2022 for the best article published in Nationalities Papers in 2021 (https://www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/core/journals/nationalities-…)
I coordinate the research network MiDem-Migration and Democracy: Confronting Illiberalism in the Baltic Sea Region (financed by the Swedish Institute) https://www.gu.se/en/research/midem-migration-and-democracy-confronting-illiberalism-in-the-baltic-sea-region
Since January 1, 2023, I am a scientific coordinator for the Graduate School The Future of Democracy: Cultural Analyses of Illiberal Populism in Times of Crises (FUDEM) financed by the Swedish Research Council.
I teach gender studies on all levels and I am willingly supervise or review PhD dissertations related to my fields of expertise.
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Transnational Spaces of
Resistance
S. Çağatay, M. Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey - 2022 -
Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+
Activism
S. Çağatay, M. Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey - 2022 -
Spaces of Appearance and the Right to Appear: March 8 in Local Bodily
Assemblies
S. Çağatay, M. Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey - 2022 -
Solidarities Across: Borders, Belongings,
Movements
S. Çağatay, M. Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey - 2022 -
Unsettling the political: conceptualizing the political in feminist and LGBTI plus activism across Russia, the Scandinavian countries, and
Turkey
H. Arik, S. Cagatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
International Feminist Journal of Politics - 2022 -
Exploring transnational LGBT plus solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian border: The case of Barents
Pride
Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Sexualities - 2022 -
Feminist and LGBTI+ activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of
Resistance
Selin Çagatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
2022 -
Beyond Anti-genderism: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in Eastern
Europe
Olga Sasunkevich
Religion and Gender - 2021 -
Polish Ethnic Minority in Belarus and Lithuania: Politics, Institutions, and
Identities
Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė , Olga Sasunkevich, Kristina Šliavaitė
Nationalities Papers - 2021 -
(Un)doing Polishness: Negotiation of Ethnic Belonging in Personal Narratives about Karta
Polaka
Olga Sasunkevich
East European Politics and Societies - 2021 -
Emancipation is More than the Freedom of Choice: Rethinking the Feminist Agenda in
Postsocialism
Olga Sasunkevich
In Bluhm K., Pickhan G., Stypinska J., Wierzcholska A. (eds) Gender and Power in Eastern Europe. Societies and Political Orders in Transition - 2021 -
Feminist
Activism
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, Di Wang, Olga Sasunkevich, Xiong Jing
Savinetti, N. (ed.) Gendered Dimensions of Welfare in China and the Nordic Region. Feminist transformations, visions and recommendations. - 2019 -
‘But I liked it, I liked it’: Revealing agentive aspects of women’s engagement in informal economy on the EU external
borders
Olga Sasunkevich
The European Journal of Women's Studies - 2019 -
Women resisting border regimes: two case studies from Eastern and Northern
Europe
Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Dreaming global change, doing local feminisms : visions of feminism : global North/global South encounters, conversations and disagreements / edited by Lena Martinsson and Diana Mulinari. - 2018 -
Women Resisting Border Regimes: Border Textures of Gendered Identities and
Empowerment
Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Border Making and its Consequences: Interpreting Evidence from the "Post-Colonial" and "Post-Imperial" 20th Century: Association for Borderlands Studies, 2nd World Conference, University of Vienna / Central European University Budapest, July 10 –14, 2018 - 2018 -
Where is local identity gone? The case of “Belarusian Poles” from the Hrodna
region
Olga Sasunkevich
Border Making and its Consequences: Interpreting Evidence from the "Post-Colonial" and "Post-Imperial" 20th Century: Association for Borderlands Studies, 2nd World Conference, University of Vienna / Central European University Budapest, July 10 –14, 2018 - 2018 -
Queer Crossings: the Case of Russian-Norwegian
Pride
Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
New (Im)mobilities: Migration and Race in the Era of Authoritarianism, 15–17 August 2018, Norrköping, Sweden. - 2018 -
‘Forum: Ot polya k tekstu’ [Forum: From Fieldwork to Written
Text]
Olga Sasunkevich
Forum for Anthropology and Culture - 2018 -
Ethnography of Invisible: Studying Informal Economy in Small
Towns
Olga Sasunkevich
SAGE Research Methods Cases. Part 2 - 2018 -
INTRODUCTION: THE THREE EDITORS VOICE THEIR OPINIONS
ABOUT THE PAST AND PRESENT OF GENDER STUDIES
IN THE POSTSOCIALIST
SPACE
Benjamin Cope, Elena Minchenia, Olga Sasunkevich
Perekrestki - 2018 -
Post-Socialist Anxiety: Gender Studies in Eastern Europe in the Context of the Conservative Backlash
(20th anniversary of the Centre for Gender Studies at
EHU)
Benjamin Cope, Elena Minchenia, Olga Sasunkevich
Perekrestki - 2017 -
In Search of Agency: Examining Belarusian Society from
Below
Felix Ackermann, Mark Berman, Olga Sasunkevich
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society - 2017 -
A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and
Society
Felix Ackermann, Mark Berman, Olga Sasunkevich
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society - 2017 -
Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience: From Political Borders to Social
Boundaries
Olga Sasunkevich
2015