Joanna Mizielińska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 137007 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joanna Mizielińska |
| NOMBRES | Joanna |
| APELLIDO | Mizielińska |
| FIRMA | MIZIELIŃSKA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Collegium Civitas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0786-1455 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Methodological and ethical challenges of the ‘family map’ technique in researching LGBTQ+ families
This article explores the analytical and ethical potential of the family map as a situated visual method within immersive ethnography conducted with LGBTQ+ families in Poland. Based on 30 days of fieldwork in 21 households, the study integrated the family map interview into a broader ethnographic design to examine how kinship is defined, practised, and affectively experienced in conditions of legal precarity. When embedded in sustained ethnograph…
Exploring Sociocultural Embodiment
This article examines how societal norms, cultural values, and societal strains shape body care practices within Poland's cisgender nonheterosexual community. Using Esther Rothblum's biculturality theory as a foundation, the study explores the influence of class, societal homophobia, and Catholic-influenced gender norms on daily routines, hygiene, adornment, and identity expression. It investigates how these practices reflect societal trends, nav…
Non-Heteronormative Reproductive Tactics in Poland
In the backdrop of increasing discussions about reproductive normativity for non-heterosexual individuals in the West, this article addresses the distinct challenges faced by same-sex couples in Poland. The country's pronatalist state policies limit their access to assisted reproductive techniques, fostering heteronormative and exclusive practices. Consequently, non-heterosexual individuals in Poland grapple with the non-recognition of their fami…
Doing family in three – two partners and an animal companion
On the queer road. Parents’ reactions and strategies in response to their LGBTQI children’s coming out
Queer kinship, queer ageing – perspectives from Poland
Although there is a substantial increase of literature on LGBT elders in Anglo-American academia, studies from Central and Eastern Europe are in paucity. This article draws on the narratives of older gay and lesbian people living in same-sex relationships gathered during focus groups interviews in Poland. Their narratives on defining and negotiating kinship reveal and reflect complex shifts and processes in post-socialist countries in the last fe…
More than just sex, more than just friendship
The article demonstrates how the problematic socio-political situation of nonheterosexual communities in Poland and Polish traditionalism significantly impacts how nonheterosexual people develop their sexual stories and perceive their sexual practices. It aims to shift the discussion on sex life, primarily conducted in the Anglo-American context that often focuses on the frequency of sexual contact and heteronormative understanding of sexual prac…
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland
"Is She Still a Family or Rather Some Stranger?" - Relative Strangers and Kinship Plasticity inFamilies of Choice in Poland
In the paper, I draw on the data from the ethnographic part of my recently completed research project "Families of Choice in Poland" (2013-2016). I focus on queer families' ways of describing their kin-relations and the meaning of "families." This often involves strategic use of kin language and reference to the importance of blood relations. Analysis reveals a high degree of polemic interplays and ambivalences, especially in reference to the rol…
Frame Story Approach in Mixed and Multimethod Study on Non-Heterosexual Families in Poland
In the article, we discuss the usage of multi-methods qualitative approach in family research drawing on the monthly team ethnographic study of 21 non-heterosexual families in Poland. This study was employed as a part of a larger multi and mixed-method project Families of Choice in Poland, where we implemented a frame story approach ( FSA). By using the ethnographic study as an example, we aim to demonstrate how our approach enabled us to capture…
The limits of choice
Poland is the biggest country in the European Union without any regulations concerning same-sex partnerships. Neither does it offer any recognition of queer parenthood. With its very conservative, heteronormative, cisgender, and nuclear vision of family and understandings of kinship, it makes the life of queer parents and their children incredibly hard and precarious. In this article, I focus on case studies of queer parenthood to demonstrate the…
Negotiations between possibilities and reality
Lack of recognition of queer families in Poland impacts their daily experiences in a distinct manner. However, the importance of geo-location and a Central and Eastern European perspective have been marginalized in Western studies on queer kinship. The present investigation examines from a local and intersectional perspective the reproductive plans and parental practices of lesbians in Poland as a part of the largest mixed-method study on queer f…
Dylematy etyczne w badaniu pary intymnej. Doświadczenia z pracy badawczej
Socjologiczne badania par intymnych wiążą się z szeregiem dylematów etycznych. Niektóre z nich łączą się z kwestiami badania życia prywatnego, a zatem pytaniami o to, czemu, jak i w jakich warunkach osoby badane dzielą się z badaczami lub badaczkami swoimi doświadczeniami, a także, jaka relacja badawcza przy tej okazji kształtuje się między tymi dwiema stronami. Rozpatrujemy problem symetryczności relacji badacza/ badaczki z parą, problem wykorzy…
Kiedy zaczyna się para? Zamieszkanie, ślub i inne wspólne decyzje – debata podsumowująca projekt badaczy i badaczek par
Debata toczy się wokół dwóch kluczowych momentów życia pary, jakimi są zamieszkanie i ślub oraz związane z nimi praktyki. Według uczestniczek i uczestników debaty, mimo że związek może trwać i bez tych wydarzeń, to z badań nad parami wynika, że stanowią one ważne punkty zwrotne. W prezentowanej rozmowie zebrano wnioski o kondycji par w Polsce, z uwzględnieniem różnic i podobieństw pomiędzy parami jedno i dwupłciowymi, a także różnic związanych z …
Metodologiczne aspekty jakościowych badań par – synteza doświadczeń terenowych
Celem artykułu jest prezentacja i uwspólnienie doświadczeń oraz wniosków płynących z jakościowych badań skoncentrowanych na parze i różnych aspektach jej funkcjonowania, prowadzonych w Polsce przez ostatnią dekadę przez wybrane zespoły badawcze. Odwołując się do przykładów z badań terenowych wskazujemy na szereg praktycznych oraz sytuacyjnych aspektów badania par i pokazujemy, że w celu zgłębienia relacji między dwojgiem ludzi i zrozumienia dynam…
W stronę socjologii pary
Przedmiotem artykułu jest program teoretyczno-badawczy ujmujący parę intymną jako formę praktykowania bliskości, miłości i troski, zakorzenionych w praktykach życia codziennego. W ramach tego programu proponujemy analizę o charakterze: relacyjnym, nienormatywnym, intersekcjonalnym oraz procesualnym. Najpierw wyjaśniamy, dlaczego kategoria pary intymnej jest użyteczna, uzupełniając, a także zastępując takie kategorie, jak rodzina, jednostka i gosp…
Beyond the Western gaze
Research into queer intimacies and families has been largely conducted from and about the Western (specifically Anglo-American) context. It very often (re)presents a hegemonic, mono-normative paradigm and vision of intimacy and family life, and profoundly influences the scope and methods of such research in other localities. This article uses findings from a large-scale mixed methods study called Families of Choice in Poland which was designed to…
There Is Nothing Like a Family
In this article we showed how the notion of heteronormative citizenship embedded in the Polish Constitution was (re)produced in the public sphere, and how heteronormativity as an ideal was slowly undermined by the emergence of new narratives on LGBT families. We did so by first conducting a critical reading of the Polish Constitution, public opinion polls, national censuses, and so forth. Then we presented the results of a discourse analysis on f…
De-Centring Western Sexualities
De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusing on gender and sexuality within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Providing rich case studies drawn from a range of "post-communist" countries, this interdisciplinary volume brings together the latest research on the formation of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe, alongside analyses o…
Travelling Ideas, Travelling Times
This chapter explores the ways in which 'Western' ideas of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender (LGBT) and queer politics have travelled and are deployed in Poland. It focuses on Campaign Against Homophobia/Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (CAH/KPH), largest and best-known Polish LGBT organisation. The chapter suggests that in their choice of strategies and discourses one can see the queer mixture of ideas that represent various historica…
De-Centring Western Sexualities
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate)" published on 01 Jan 2013 by Brill | Schöningh
The Rest is Silence
This article focuses on questions rarely spoken of openly or written about in Poland. The article investigates what is behind such silence and tells of invisibility. The silence regarding lesbians in Poland is meaningful and reveals a lot about the concept of the Polish nation. This article examines Polish nationalistic discourse, which largely avoids the question of a homosexual orientation. Moreover, the heterosexual orientation is taken for gr…
There Is Nothing Like a Family
In this article we showed how the notion of heteronormative citizenship embedded in the Polish Constitution was (re)produced in the public sphere, and how heteronormativity as an ideal was slowly undermined by the emergence of new narratives on LGBT families. We did so by first conducting a critical reading of the Polish Constitution, public opinion polls, national censuses, and so forth. Then we presented the results of a discourse analysis on f…
The Rest is Silence
This article focuses on questions rarely spoken of openly or written about in Poland. The article investigates what is behind such silence and tells of invisibility. The silence regarding lesbians in Poland is meaningful and reveals a lot about the concept of the Polish nation. This article examines Polish nationalistic discourse, which largely avoids the question of a homosexual orientation. Moreover, the heterosexual orientation is taken for gr…
The limits of choice
Poland is the biggest country in the European Union without any regulations concerning same-sex partnerships. Neither does it offer any recognition of queer parenthood. With its very conservative, heteronormative, cisgender, and nuclear vision of family and understandings of kinship, it makes the life of queer parents and their children incredibly hard and precarious. In this article, I focus on case studies of queer parenthood to demonstrate the…
"Is She Still a Family or Rather Some Stranger?" - Relative Strangers and Kinship Plasticity inFamilies of Choice in Poland
In the paper, I draw on the data from the ethnographic part of my recently completed research project "Families of Choice in Poland" (2013-2016). I focus on queer families' ways of describing their kin-relations and the meaning of "families." This often involves strategic use of kin language and reference to the importance of blood relations. Analysis reveals a high degree of polemic interplays and ambivalences, especially in reference to the rol…
Doing family in three – two partners and an animal companion
Negotiations between possibilities and reality
Lack of recognition of queer families in Poland impacts their daily experiences in a distinct manner. However, the importance of geo-location and a Central and Eastern European perspective have been marginalized in Western studies on queer kinship. The present investigation examines from a local and intersectional perspective the reproductive plans and parental practices of lesbians in Poland as a part of the largest mixed-method study on queer f…
Frame Story Approach in Mixed and Multimethod Study on Non-Heterosexual Families in Poland
In the article, we discuss the usage of multi-methods qualitative approach in family research drawing on the monthly team ethnographic study of 21 non-heterosexual families in Poland. This study was employed as a part of a larger multi and mixed-method project Families of Choice in Poland, where we implemented a frame story approach ( FSA). By using the ethnographic study as an example, we aim to demonstrate how our approach enabled us to capture…
Queer kinship, queer ageing – perspectives from Poland
Although there is a substantial increase of literature on LGBT elders in Anglo-American academia, studies from Central and Eastern Europe are in paucity. This article draws on the narratives of older gay and lesbian people living in same-sex relationships gathered during focus groups interviews in Poland. Their narratives on defining and negotiating kinship reveal and reflect complex shifts and processes in post-socialist countries in the last fe…
More than just sex, more than just friendship
The article demonstrates how the problematic socio-political situation of nonheterosexual communities in Poland and Polish traditionalism significantly impacts how nonheterosexual people develop their sexual stories and perceive their sexual practices. It aims to shift the discussion on sex life, primarily conducted in the Anglo-American context that often focuses on the frequency of sexual contact and heteronormative understanding of sexual prac…
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate)" published on 01 Jan 2013 by Brill | Schöningh
The Rest is Silence
This article focuses on questions rarely spoken of openly or written about in Poland. The article investigates what is behind such silence and tells of invisibility. The silence regarding lesbians in Poland is meaningful and reveals a lot about the concept of the Polish nation. This article examines Polish nationalistic discourse, which largely avoids the question of a homosexual orientation. Moreover, the heterosexual orientation is taken for gr…
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham
Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate)" published on 01 Jan 2013 by Brill | Schöningh
De-Centring Western Sexualities
De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusing on gender and sexuality within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Providing rich case studies drawn from a range of "post-communist" countries, this interdisciplinary volume brings together the latest research on the formation of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe, alongside analyses o…
Travelling Ideas, Travelling Times
This chapter explores the ways in which 'Western' ideas of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender (LGBT) and queer politics have travelled and are deployed in Poland. It focuses on Campaign Against Homophobia/Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (CAH/KPH), largest and best-known Polish LGBT organisation. The chapter suggests that in their choice of strategies and discourses one can see the queer mixture of ideas that represent various historica…
De-Centring Western Sexualities
There Is Nothing Like a Family
In this article we showed how the notion of heteronormative citizenship embedded in the Polish Constitution was (re)produced in the public sphere, and how heteronormativity as an ideal was slowly undermined by the emergence of new narratives on LGBT families. We did so by first conducting a critical reading of the Polish Constitution, public opinion polls, national censuses, and so forth. Then we presented the results of a discourse analysis on f…
Dylematy etyczne w badaniu pary intymnej. Doświadczenia z pracy badawczej
Socjologiczne badania par intymnych wiążą się z szeregiem dylematów etycznych. Niektóre z nich łączą się z kwestiami badania życia prywatnego, a zatem pytaniami o to, czemu, jak i w jakich warunkach osoby badane dzielą się z badaczami lub badaczkami swoimi doświadczeniami, a także, jaka relacja badawcza przy tej okazji kształtuje się między tymi dwiema stronami. Rozpatrujemy problem symetryczności relacji badacza/ badaczki z parą, problem wykorzy…
Kiedy zaczyna się para? Zamieszkanie, ślub i inne wspólne decyzje – debata podsumowująca projekt badaczy i badaczek par
Debata toczy się wokół dwóch kluczowych momentów życia pary, jakimi są zamieszkanie i ślub oraz związane z nimi praktyki. Według uczestniczek i uczestników debaty, mimo że związek może trwać i bez tych wydarzeń, to z badań nad parami wynika, że stanowią one ważne punkty zwrotne. W prezentowanej rozmowie zebrano wnioski o kondycji par w Polsce, z uwzględnieniem różnic i podobieństw pomiędzy parami jedno i dwupłciowymi, a także różnic związanych z …
Metodologiczne aspekty jakościowych badań par – synteza doświadczeń terenowych
Celem artykułu jest prezentacja i uwspólnienie doświadczeń oraz wniosków płynących z jakościowych badań skoncentrowanych na parze i różnych aspektach jej funkcjonowania, prowadzonych w Polsce przez ostatnią dekadę przez wybrane zespoły badawcze. Odwołując się do przykładów z badań terenowych wskazujemy na szereg praktycznych oraz sytuacyjnych aspektów badania par i pokazujemy, że w celu zgłębienia relacji między dwojgiem ludzi i zrozumienia dynam…
W stronę socjologii pary
Przedmiotem artykułu jest program teoretyczno-badawczy ujmujący parę intymną jako formę praktykowania bliskości, miłości i troski, zakorzenionych w praktykach życia codziennego. W ramach tego programu proponujemy analizę o charakterze: relacyjnym, nienormatywnym, intersekcjonalnym oraz procesualnym. Najpierw wyjaśniamy, dlaczego kategoria pary intymnej jest użyteczna, uzupełniając, a także zastępując takie kategorie, jak rodzina, jednostka i gosp…
Beyond the Western gaze
Research into queer intimacies and families has been largely conducted from and about the Western (specifically Anglo-American) context. It very often (re)presents a hegemonic, mono-normative paradigm and vision of intimacy and family life, and profoundly influences the scope and methods of such research in other localities. This article uses findings from a large-scale mixed methods study called Families of Choice in Poland which was designed to…
Negotiations between possibilities and reality
Lack of recognition of queer families in Poland impacts their daily experiences in a distinct manner. However, the importance of geo-location and a Central and Eastern European perspective have been marginalized in Western studies on queer kinship. The present investigation examines from a local and intersectional perspective the reproductive plans and parental practices of lesbians in Poland as a part of the largest mixed-method study on queer f…
The limits of choice
Poland is the biggest country in the European Union without any regulations concerning same-sex partnerships. Neither does it offer any recognition of queer parenthood. With its very conservative, heteronormative, cisgender, and nuclear vision of family and understandings of kinship, it makes the life of queer parents and their children incredibly hard and precarious. In this article, I focus on case studies of queer parenthood to demonstrate the…
"Is She Still a Family or Rather Some Stranger?" - Relative Strangers and Kinship Plasticity inFamilies of Choice in Poland
In the paper, I draw on the data from the ethnographic part of my recently completed research project "Families of Choice in Poland" (2013-2016). I focus on queer families' ways of describing their kin-relations and the meaning of "families." This often involves strategic use of kin language and reference to the importance of blood relations. Analysis reveals a high degree of polemic interplays and ambivalences, especially in reference to the rol…
Frame Story Approach in Mixed and Multimethod Study on Non-Heterosexual Families in Poland
In the article, we discuss the usage of multi-methods qualitative approach in family research drawing on the monthly team ethnographic study of 21 non-heterosexual families in Poland. This study was employed as a part of a larger multi and mixed-method project Families of Choice in Poland, where we implemented a frame story approach ( FSA). By using the ethnographic study as an example, we aim to demonstrate how our approach enabled us to capture…
Queer kinship, queer ageing – perspectives from Poland
Although there is a substantial increase of literature on LGBT elders in Anglo-American academia, studies from Central and Eastern Europe are in paucity. This article draws on the narratives of older gay and lesbian people living in same-sex relationships gathered during focus groups interviews in Poland. Their narratives on defining and negotiating kinship reveal and reflect complex shifts and processes in post-socialist countries in the last fe…
More than just sex, more than just friendship
The article demonstrates how the problematic socio-political situation of nonheterosexual communities in Poland and Polish traditionalism significantly impacts how nonheterosexual people develop their sexual stories and perceive their sexual practices. It aims to shift the discussion on sex life, primarily conducted in the Anglo-American context that often focuses on the frequency of sexual contact and heteronormative understanding of sexual prac…
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland
Doing family in three – two partners and an animal companion
On the queer road. Parents’ reactions and strategies in response to their LGBTQI children’s coming out
Methodological and ethical challenges of the ‘family map’ technique in researching LGBTQ+ families
This article explores the analytical and ethical potential of the family map as a situated visual method within immersive ethnography conducted with LGBTQ+ families in Poland. Based on 30 days of fieldwork in 21 households, the study integrated the family map interview into a broader ethnographic design to examine how kinship is defined, practised, and affectively experienced in conditions of legal precarity. When embedded in sustained ethnograph…
Exploring Sociocultural Embodiment
This article examines how societal norms, cultural values, and societal strains shape body care practices within Poland's cisgender nonheterosexual community. Using Esther Rothblum's biculturality theory as a foundation, the study explores the influence of class, societal homophobia, and Catholic-influenced gender norms on daily routines, hygiene, adornment, and identity expression. It investigates how these practices reflect societal trends, nav…
Non-Heteronormative Reproductive Tactics in Poland
In the backdrop of increasing discussions about reproductive normativity for non-heterosexual individuals in the West, this article addresses the distinct challenges faced by same-sex couples in Poland. The country's pronatalist state policies limit their access to assisted reproductive techniques, fostering heteronormative and exclusive practices. Consequently, non-heterosexual individuals in Poland grapple with the non-recognition of their fami…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Queer (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Anthropology (6 obras) · European history and politics (6 obras)