Artūras Tereškinas
Biographic Data
| ID | 107502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artūras Tereškinas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artūras |
| FAMILY NAME | Tereškinas |
| SIGNATURE | TEREŠKINAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vytautas Magnus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9544-0460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Post-Soviet Prisons in Lithuania: Examining Prison Officers’ Perspectives in the Context of Ongoing Reforms
In the post-Soviet Lithuanian context, prisons remain institutions profoundly shaped by the Soviet-era historical legacy, marked by outdated infrastructure and entrenched criminal subculture. Despite ongoing reforms aimed at aligning with European standards, these institutions often reflect a tension between punitive traditions and emerging rehabilitative approaches. This article examines the daily roles, responsibilities, and perceptions of pris…
Emotion Management and Feeling Rules in Lithuanian Women’s Prison
The article explores how inmates in Panevėžys Correctional Facility, Lithuania’s only women’s prison, manage and express their emotions. The study utilizes the theories of emotions as a social glue and emotional contamination. Through semi-structured interviews with female inmates, the study found that emotional restraint was the norm in prison. Women were expected to appear emotionally strong and avoid displaying vulnerability. Additionally, the…
Investing in Femininity: A Case Study of Incarcerated Women in Lithuania
Lithuanian prisons are known for their communal dormitory-style living, informal prisoner hierarchies, and dispersed authority, with little staff presence in prisoner housing areas. In such an environment, some incarcerated women have developed a strategy to maintain their individuality and autonomy while resisting the pressure to conform to institutional identities by (re)constructing femininity. This research explores the connection between the…
Inclusive and Safe Environment for LGBTI+ in Lithuanian Universities? Reflecting Realities and Challenges
This paper discusses the results of the international applied research project ‘UniDiversity – Universities Towards Diversity’ that examined what discriminatory attitudes, beliefs and behaviours based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics (SOGISC) exist in the Lithuanian, Greek and Italian academic environment. Specifically, this paper analyses how LGBTI+ individuals conceive of different forms of discrimination in the Li…
Women’s pains of punishment: Experiences of female offenders serving community sentences in Lithuania
Using the concept of ‘pains of punishment’, the article analyses the experiences of Lithuanian women serving community sentences. Our study demonstrates that women experience the universal pains of punishment associated with stigmatisation, shame, and the inconveniences caused by punishment, as well as constraints and anxieties about impending imprisonment. Furthermore, the complex context of their social environment (relationships with partners,…
Emotional Capital and Its Uses in Lithuanian Middle-Class Fathers’ Narratives
The article examines Lithuanian middle-class fathers’ uses of emotional capital to learn which patterns of emotional engagement with children they employ in their fathering. Emotional capital is defined, in the article, as a type of interpersonal resource that consists of emotion-based knowledge and emotion-management abilities that can lead to social benefits. The 24 in-depth interviews with 35- to 48-year-old fathers show that males believe the…
Around the clock: Time and precarity in family life
Straipsnyje gilinamasi į viduriniosios klasės Lietuvos moterų ir vyrų prekariteto, susijusio su laiko trūkumu, patirtis. Remiantis teorinėmis laiko, kaip prekariteto rodiklio, idėjomis, analizuojami 39 biografiniai interviu su specifinės 1970–1985 m. gimimo kohortos asmenimis. Čia aptariami trys šios gimimo kohortos asmenų prekariško gyvenimo aspektai: 1) ilgos darbo valandos ir asocialūs darbo grafikai; 2) kokybiško laiko su vaikais trūkumas; 3)…
A Police Officer or a Social Worker? Research on the Professional Roles of Probation Officers
The article discusses the results of the quantitative survey of Lithuanian probation officers. We attempt to answer the question of what roles officers choose in their professional service. Taking into account the specificity of probation officers’ duties and internationally accepted classifications, we use, in the article, the categories of the professional roles of policeman (or controlling agent) and social worker (or resocialising agent) to a…
Precarious sexualities, alternative intimacies in postsocialist Lithuania
While sexual and gender self-determination became an inseparable part of the official state policies in the Western world, the opposite process of the retradicionalization of gender and sexual norms occurred in Lithuania during the last decade. It is comprised of an ineffective partnership law for either heterosexual or same-sex couples, the enactment of the discriminatory Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effects of Public …
Territorial development in Lithuanian municipalities: A territorial capital approach
The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of differe…
Undoing fatherhood: Postdivorce fathering practices in Lithuania
Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers' role consists primarily of their financial responsibility. By using the theoretical framework of undoing gender (Butler, J.…
Transformations in Prison Subculture and Adjustment to Imprisonment in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Penitentiary Institutions
As in other post-Soviet countries, carceral collectivism characterizes penal institutions in Lithuania. In these institutions, prisoners’ interactions are minimally controlled and convicts are responsible for the maintenance of order; hence, the informal rules of the criminal subculture prevail in Lithuanian correctional facilities. In this article, we examine the prison subculture and adaptation to imprisonment as a significant part of inmates’ …
Išsiskyrę vyrai ir poskyrybinės tėvystės modeliai
Analyzing 25 biographical interviews with divorced men of different class, education, professional involvement, living in three biggest Lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the article distinguishes three broad types that reflect father’s identities and their different strategies utilized to make sense of their experience. Men of the first type comprised of fathers who espouse “new fatherhood” did not follow culturally prescribed scri…
Involving Nonresident Lithuanian Fathers in Child-rearing: The Negative Impact of Income Inequalities and Sociolegal Policies
Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father-child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers' involvement in child-rearing is more significantly associated with levels of individual income resou…
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life: Unemployment, working identities, and strategies of survival
Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men, particularly those with lesser professional and social competencies crucial to efficient participat…
Family in the Narratives of Good Life: Performing Masculinities in the Lithuanian Correctional Facilities
Most recent works on incarcerated men have focused on prisoners' relationship to their children and family, incarcerated fatherhood and the influence of visitation to inmates' behaviour. The negative impact of imprisonment on family relations has also been extensively studied. Yet the intersections between imprisoned men's attitudes towards masculinity and family remain underresearched. Drawing on 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with impri…
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia by MartinDemant FrederiksenPhiladelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. 214 pp
Kultūrinis vartojimas ir socioerdvinė diferenciacija Lietuvos didmiesčiuose
Straipsnyje analizuojamas kultūrinis vartojimas ir jo ypatumai skirtinguose Vilniaus, Kauno ir Klaipėdos gyvenamuosiuose rajonuose. Laikant kultūrinį vartojimą socialinių skirtumų ir socioerdvinių pasidalijimų žymeniu, mėginama išsiaiškinti santykį tarp kultūrinio vartojimo ir jį lemiančių veiksnių. Straipsnyje remiamasi Pierre’o Bourdieu kultūrinio kapitalo sąvoka (1984) ir paskutiniuoju dešimtmečiu plačiai vykstančia teorine diskusija apie homo…
Bedarbiai vyrai, geras gyvenimas ir socialinė atskirtis
Analizuojant 18 pusiau struktūruotų interviu su 23–39 metų bedarbiais vyrais, šiame straipsnyje aiškinamasi, kokiu mastu vyrų konceptualizuojamas geras gyvenimas, bedarbio statusas ir su juo susiję emociniai išgyvenimai yra socialinės atskirties, šiame straipsnyje netapatinamos su skurdu ir materialine deprivacija, bet laikomos ir procesu, ir būkle, kurioje individui neprieinamas minimalus gyvenimo kokybės ar „gero gyvenimo“ standartas, rodiklis.…
Permąstant socialinę atskirtį ir socialinį kentėjimą
The article rethinks the concepts of social exclusion and social suffering by discussing them with regard to the categories of power, normativity, subjective wellbeing, livable life and identities based on trauma and vulnerability. Despite a considerable attention to economic dimension of social exclusion, the terms of subjective welfare and social suffering have also been used to describe immaterial misery and poverty of marginalized social grou…
Jaunų bedarbių vyrų vyriškumas, (ne)pripažinimas, socialinė atskirtis
The article focuses on the relationship between young unemployed men’s social exclusion, recognition and gender normativity. It argues that the desire for recognition is crucial in self-construction of male subjects. In order to become “real” men, they must be recognized as effective and viable subjects defined by the norm of employment and work. According to their attitudes towards masculinity, work and family, two groups of respondents were dis…
Vyriškumas ir vyro kūnas šiuolaikiniame lietuvių kine
Straipsnyje analizuojami vizualiniai vyriškumo, galios, kūno ir traumos aspektai filme „Zero: alyvinė Lietuva“ (rež. Emilis Vėlyvis, Lietuva, 2006). Naudojantis poststruktūralistinėmis įkūnijimo teorijomis bei maskulinizmo studijomis teigiama, kad filmas pateikia vyriškumo performansą nuolatinės krizės kontekste. Filmo vizuali kalba atspindi vis labiau įsigalinčias kino kalbos tendencijas posovietiniame kine ne tik Lietuvoje, bet ir visoje posovi…
Imigracijos diskursai JAV ir Airijos spaudoje
Analizuojant didžiausius JAV ir Airijos dienraščius, šiame straipsnyje atskleidžiamos semantinės imigracijos diskurso makrostruktūros. Darbe išskirtos dažniausiai spaudoje pasikartojančios temos, kurių dauguma priklauso „prietarų struktūroms“; čia aptariami kalbiniai kontekstai, terminai ir retoriniai stiliai, aprašantys imigrantus, gilinamasi į „aliarmistinę retoriką“, kuri išreiškia socialines baimes, siejamas su imigracijair imigrantais. Strai…
Darbininkai vyrai ir socialinis kentėjimasšiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje
This article focuses on Lithuanian working-class men's social suffering. Analyzing 19 semi-structured interviews with working class men, it attempts to describe their everyday miseries and to expose social factors contributing to their oppression and domination. The interviews reveal that these men accept their inferior status in the social world. Older working-class men feel unappreciated by employers and co-workers. They are insufficiently inte…
Gėjų ir lesbiečių atsivėrimas viešumo ir privatumo sankirtoje: Seksualinė Pilietybė, Slaptumas Ir Heteronormatyvi Publika
The paper focuses on the relationship between Lithuanian gays and lesbians' coming out experiences and sexual citizenship. Analyzing Lithuanian homosexuals' view of public/private divide, it asks how they perform their identities in public and private settings and how they align themselves with being public. What anxieties over citizenship and sexual boundaries are reflected in their life histories? The paper starts from the premise that 'sexual …
Transformations in Prison Subculture and Adjustment to Imprisonment in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Penitentiary Institutions
As in other post-Soviet countries, carceral collectivism characterizes penal institutions in Lithuania. In these institutions, prisoners’ interactions are minimally controlled and convicts are responsible for the maintenance of order; hence, the informal rules of the criminal subculture prevail in Lithuanian correctional facilities. In this article, we examine the prison subculture and adaptation to imprisonment as a significant part of inmates’ …
Involving Nonresident Lithuanian Fathers in Child-rearing: The Negative Impact of Income Inequalities and Sociolegal Policies
Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father-child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers' involvement in child-rearing is more significantly associated with levels of individual income resou…
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life: Unemployment, working identities, and strategies of survival
Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men, particularly those with lesser professional and social competencies crucial to efficient participat…
Tarp norminio ir subordinuoto vyriškumo formų: Vyrai, jųseksualumas ir maskulinizmo politika šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje
The article examines hegemonic and subordinated forms of masculinity in contemporary Lithuania. Using the opinion survey 'The Crisis of Male Roles in Lithuania' (2002) and a wide array of literature theorizing men and masculinities, it attempts to answer the following questions: how can we assess the influence of different masculinities to men themselves and gender policies in Lithuania? What kind of masculinity policy can support a feminist proj…
Emotional Capital and Its Uses in Lithuanian Middle-Class Fathers’ Narratives
The article examines Lithuanian middle-class fathers’ uses of emotional capital to learn which patterns of emotional engagement with children they employ in their fathering. Emotional capital is defined, in the article, as a type of interpersonal resource that consists of emotion-based knowledge and emotion-management abilities that can lead to social benefits. The 24 in-depth interviews with 35- to 48-year-old fathers show that males believe the…
Undoing fatherhood: Postdivorce fathering practices in Lithuania
Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers' role consists primarily of their financial responsibility. By using the theoretical framework of undoing gender (Butler, J.…
Permąstant socialinę atskirtį ir socialinį kentėjimą
The article rethinks the concepts of social exclusion and social suffering by discussing them with regard to the categories of power, normativity, subjective wellbeing, livable life and identities based on trauma and vulnerability. Despite a considerable attention to economic dimension of social exclusion, the terms of subjective welfare and social suffering have also been used to describe immaterial misery and poverty of marginalized social grou…
Gėjų ir lesbiečių atsivėrimas viešumo ir privatumo sankirtoje: Seksualinė Pilietybė, Slaptumas Ir Heteronormatyvi Publika
The paper focuses on the relationship between Lithuanian gays and lesbians' coming out experiences and sexual citizenship. Analyzing Lithuanian homosexuals' view of public/private divide, it asks how they perform their identities in public and private settings and how they align themselves with being public. What anxieties over citizenship and sexual boundaries are reflected in their life histories? The paper starts from the premise that 'sexual …
Reconsidering the Third of May constitution and the rhetoric of Polish-Lithuanian reforms, 1788–1792
Persuaded that our common fate depends entirely upon establishing and rendering perfect a national constitution; convinced by a long train of experience of many defects in our government, and willing to profit by the present circumstances of Europe, and by the favorable moment which has restored us to ourselves; free from the disgraceful shackles of foreign influence; prizing more than life, and every personal consideration, the political existen…
Šalpos valgyklos ir muilo operos: Ikoninis tautiškumas,žiniasklaida, pop kultura nūdienėje Lietuvoje
This article aims to theorize the complex relationship between the sublimity of Lithuanian national identity and its everyday happenings by playing with national significations and resignifications extracted from a wide array of texts written in the nineteenth century and in the 90s of the twentieth century. Mass media, pop culture and the everyday are understood as spaces of a new nationness in practice demonstrating how the national imaginary i…
Apie paraštes: Seksualinių mažumų reprezentavimas Lietuvos spaudoje (2000-01 m)
This article analyzes the images of sexual minorities in the Lithuanian press during the period of January, 2000 - June, 2001. Arguing that the mass media plays a critical role in the construction of representations of the sexual minorities, the author attempts to determine whether Lithuanian press makes the issues of homosexuality and homosexual people a part of public agenda. The analysis demonstrates that sexual minorities remain a difficult t…
Konfliktinė hegemonija: Žiniasklaida ir moterys Lietuvoje bei Europos Sąjungoje
Recent research has demonstrated that there has been little improvement in quality of media coverage of women in Lithuania. Women’s images are usually sexualized, stereotyped or simply negative. In the media portrayals, women are often confined to the private sphere of home. The article focuses on media representations of women in the context of women-and-media policies in EU and Lithuania. Analyzing the EU, UN and Lithuanian communication policy…
Tarp norminio ir subordinuoto vyriškumo formų: Vyrai, jųseksualumas ir maskulinizmo politika šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje
The article examines hegemonic and subordinated forms of masculinity in contemporary Lithuania. Using the opinion survey 'The Crisis of Male Roles in Lithuania' (2002) and a wide array of literature theorizing men and masculinities, it attempts to answer the following questions: how can we assess the influence of different masculinities to men themselves and gender policies in Lithuania? What kind of masculinity policy can support a feminist proj…
Gėjų ir lesbiečių atsivėrimas viešumo ir privatumo sankirtoje: Seksualinė Pilietybė, Slaptumas Ir Heteronormatyvi Publika
The paper focuses on the relationship between Lithuanian gays and lesbians' coming out experiences and sexual citizenship. Analyzing Lithuanian homosexuals' view of public/private divide, it asks how they perform their identities in public and private settings and how they align themselves with being public. What anxieties over citizenship and sexual boundaries are reflected in their life histories? The paper starts from the premise that 'sexual …
Darbininkai vyrai ir socialinis kentėjimasšiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje
This article focuses on Lithuanian working-class men's social suffering. Analyzing 19 semi-structured interviews with working class men, it attempts to describe their everyday miseries and to expose social factors contributing to their oppression and domination. The interviews reveal that these men accept their inferior status in the social world. Older working-class men feel unappreciated by employers and co-workers. They are insufficiently inte…
Imigracijos diskursai JAV ir Airijos spaudoje
Analizuojant didžiausius JAV ir Airijos dienraščius, šiame straipsnyje atskleidžiamos semantinės imigracijos diskurso makrostruktūros. Darbe išskirtos dažniausiai spaudoje pasikartojančios temos, kurių dauguma priklauso „prietarų struktūroms“; čia aptariami kalbiniai kontekstai, terminai ir retoriniai stiliai, aprašantys imigrantus, gilinamasi į „aliarmistinę retoriką“, kuri išreiškia socialines baimes, siejamas su imigracijair imigrantais. Strai…
Vyriškumas ir vyro kūnas šiuolaikiniame lietuvių kine
Straipsnyje analizuojami vizualiniai vyriškumo, galios, kūno ir traumos aspektai filme „Zero: alyvinė Lietuva“ (rež. Emilis Vėlyvis, Lietuva, 2006). Naudojantis poststruktūralistinėmis įkūnijimo teorijomis bei maskulinizmo studijomis teigiama, kad filmas pateikia vyriškumo performansą nuolatinės krizės kontekste. Filmo vizuali kalba atspindi vis labiau įsigalinčias kino kalbos tendencijas posovietiniame kine ne tik Lietuvoje, bet ir visoje posovi…
Bedarbiai vyrai, geras gyvenimas ir socialinė atskirtis
Analizuojant 18 pusiau struktūruotų interviu su 23–39 metų bedarbiais vyrais, šiame straipsnyje aiškinamasi, kokiu mastu vyrų konceptualizuojamas geras gyvenimas, bedarbio statusas ir su juo susiję emociniai išgyvenimai yra socialinės atskirties, šiame straipsnyje netapatinamos su skurdu ir materialine deprivacija, bet laikomos ir procesu, ir būkle, kurioje individui neprieinamas minimalus gyvenimo kokybės ar „gero gyvenimo“ standartas, rodiklis.…
Permąstant socialinę atskirtį ir socialinį kentėjimą
The article rethinks the concepts of social exclusion and social suffering by discussing them with regard to the categories of power, normativity, subjective wellbeing, livable life and identities based on trauma and vulnerability. Despite a considerable attention to economic dimension of social exclusion, the terms of subjective welfare and social suffering have also been used to describe immaterial misery and poverty of marginalized social grou…
Jaunų bedarbių vyrų vyriškumas, (ne)pripažinimas, socialinė atskirtis
The article focuses on the relationship between young unemployed men’s social exclusion, recognition and gender normativity. It argues that the desire for recognition is crucial in self-construction of male subjects. In order to become “real” men, they must be recognized as effective and viable subjects defined by the norm of employment and work. According to their attitudes towards masculinity, work and family, two groups of respondents were dis…
Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia by MartinDemant FrederiksenPhiladelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. 214 pp
Kultūrinis vartojimas ir socioerdvinė diferenciacija Lietuvos didmiesčiuose
Straipsnyje analizuojamas kultūrinis vartojimas ir jo ypatumai skirtinguose Vilniaus, Kauno ir Klaipėdos gyvenamuosiuose rajonuose. Laikant kultūrinį vartojimą socialinių skirtumų ir socioerdvinių pasidalijimų žymeniu, mėginama išsiaiškinti santykį tarp kultūrinio vartojimo ir jį lemiančių veiksnių. Straipsnyje remiamasi Pierre’o Bourdieu kultūrinio kapitalo sąvoka (1984) ir paskutiniuoju dešimtmečiu plačiai vykstančia teorine diskusija apie homo…
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life: Unemployment, working identities, and strategies of survival
Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men, particularly those with lesser professional and social competencies crucial to efficient participat…
Family in the Narratives of Good Life: Performing Masculinities in the Lithuanian Correctional Facilities
Most recent works on incarcerated men have focused on prisoners' relationship to their children and family, incarcerated fatherhood and the influence of visitation to inmates' behaviour. The negative impact of imprisonment on family relations has also been extensively studied. Yet the intersections between imprisoned men's attitudes towards masculinity and family remain underresearched. Drawing on 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with impri…
Transformations in Prison Subculture and Adjustment to Imprisonment in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Penitentiary Institutions
As in other post-Soviet countries, carceral collectivism characterizes penal institutions in Lithuania. In these institutions, prisoners’ interactions are minimally controlled and convicts are responsible for the maintenance of order; hence, the informal rules of the criminal subculture prevail in Lithuanian correctional facilities. In this article, we examine the prison subculture and adaptation to imprisonment as a significant part of inmates’ …
Išsiskyrę vyrai ir poskyrybinės tėvystės modeliai
Analyzing 25 biographical interviews with divorced men of different class, education, professional involvement, living in three biggest Lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the article distinguishes three broad types that reflect father’s identities and their different strategies utilized to make sense of their experience. Men of the first type comprised of fathers who espouse “new fatherhood” did not follow culturally prescribed scri…
Involving Nonresident Lithuanian Fathers in Child-rearing: The Negative Impact of Income Inequalities and Sociolegal Policies
Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father-child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers' involvement in child-rearing is more significantly associated with levels of individual income resou…
Precarious sexualities, alternative intimacies in postsocialist Lithuania
While sexual and gender self-determination became an inseparable part of the official state policies in the Western world, the opposite process of the retradicionalization of gender and sexual norms occurred in Lithuania during the last decade. It is comprised of an ineffective partnership law for either heterosexual or same-sex couples, the enactment of the discriminatory Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effects of Public …
Territorial development in Lithuanian municipalities: A territorial capital approach
The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of differe…
Undoing fatherhood: Postdivorce fathering practices in Lithuania
Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers' role consists primarily of their financial responsibility. By using the theoretical framework of undoing gender (Butler, J.…
A Police Officer or a Social Worker? Research on the Professional Roles of Probation Officers
The article discusses the results of the quantitative survey of Lithuanian probation officers. We attempt to answer the question of what roles officers choose in their professional service. Taking into account the specificity of probation officers’ duties and internationally accepted classifications, we use, in the article, the categories of the professional roles of policeman (or controlling agent) and social worker (or resocialising agent) to a…
Women’s pains of punishment: Experiences of female offenders serving community sentences in Lithuania
Using the concept of ‘pains of punishment’, the article analyses the experiences of Lithuanian women serving community sentences. Our study demonstrates that women experience the universal pains of punishment associated with stigmatisation, shame, and the inconveniences caused by punishment, as well as constraints and anxieties about impending imprisonment. Furthermore, the complex context of their social environment (relationships with partners,…
Emotional Capital and Its Uses in Lithuanian Middle-Class Fathers’ Narratives
The article examines Lithuanian middle-class fathers’ uses of emotional capital to learn which patterns of emotional engagement with children they employ in their fathering. Emotional capital is defined, in the article, as a type of interpersonal resource that consists of emotion-based knowledge and emotion-management abilities that can lead to social benefits. The 24 in-depth interviews with 35- to 48-year-old fathers show that males believe the…
Political science (21 works) · Lithuanian (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Criminology (7 works)