Maria Shevtsova
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1207492 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maria Shevtsova |
| PRENOMES | Maria |
| SOBRENOME | Shevtsova |
| ASSINATURA | SHEVTSOVA M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3861-4158 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Transitional Justice and Its Queer Discontents in Armenia
∞ In these notes from the field, we reflect on the place of LGBTQ+ rights discourses in the processes of negotiating transitional justice in Armenia and on our experiences of doing research on this topic in the country against the backdrop of the Karabakh wars and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We offer methodological reflections on doing research in Armenia as outsiders-insiders – neither Armenians nor speakers of the language, yet res…
“Now I Know What It Means to Be a Donbas Child’s Mother”
This article analyses media representations of Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, in light of the ICC arrest warrant issued for her and Vladimir Putin over the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. Using discourse analysis across Ukrainian, Russian, and selected Western (UK/US) media, it examines how gendered narratives shape understandings of female agency, political violence, and motherhood. Drawing on femini…
Echoes, Resonances, and Continuities
EJTP gathers here a collection of writings (spanning from 1988 to 2025) that bear witness to Prof. Em. Maria Shevtsova’s sustained and critical expansion of her scholarship in the sociology of theatre and performance. Newly added comments to several excerpts presented her, which Shevtsova formulated in 2025, invite us to recognise the echoes, resonances, and continuities that define her intellectual trajectory
La sociologie de la mise en scène
This is a reprit of Shevtsova, Maria. 1988. 'La Sociologie de la mise en scene: le cas d'Ubu aux Bouffes de Peter Brook’, Recherches sociologiques, XX. 2–3: 195–220
Notes on Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance
As the Associate Scholar of the EASTAP Annual Conference 2024 hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, Professor Emerita Maria Shevtsova delivered a keynote address on 29 October 2024. Her presentation focused on the conference’s central theme, ‘Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance’. Presented in this section are her notes from that address, offering a unique insight into her preparation for what became a vibrant talk, which played a forma…
Sexuality securitized
This article examines how the shifting security landscape following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is reconfiguring (anti)-LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe. Drawing on securitization theory, we unravel the changing construction of LGBTQ rights as a security issue in Ukraine and Georgia. We posit that securitization of sexuality occurs at the intersection of processes taking place at multiple scales: nation-building, in its imbrication wi…
Between nationalism and solidarity
This article explores the ethical and methodological challenges of researching anti-gender actors, particularly far-right nationalist groups, in wartime Ukraine. Rather than focusing on the far right as a political subject, it reflects on the consequences of this focus becoming central to Western and Russian interpretations of Ukrainian politics, especially in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights. The Russian …
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voicesaims to give voices to feminist scholars from Ukraine and the wider Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. This volume, recognizing the long-neglected nature of the war evolving since 2014, offers a compilation of essays contributed by scholars spanning diverse disciplines and practitioners alike. Employing a wide array of data sources and methodologies—encompassing archival rese…
Eighty Dates around the World
This autoethnographic essay focuses on various dimensions of transnational academic mobility. It explores a hybrid identity of an early career researcher in Western academia dealing with internationalisation as a dominant policy discourse in the sector of higher education and with mobility as one of the key mechanisms through which internationalisation takes place. Questioning the ways in which one’s gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and institutiona…
Solidarity test
When Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, many LGBTIQ Ukrainians, like hundreds of thousands of their compatriots, were forced to leave their homes and move to safer areas. Those who could and chose to leave the country, fearing for their safety, entered the bordering EU member states, such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, known for their unfriendly attitudes towards homosexuality. As neither the …
A Country Where Everyone Feels Free?” The Georgian Orthodox Church, Political Homophobia and Europeanization of LGBTIQ Rights in Georgia
Resisting “Liberal Values”
During the previous decade (2012–2021), in Ukraine, political pressure from the European Union combined with the efforts of the local civil society resulted in the adoption of legislation to prevent and eliminate discrimination, protect women from domestic violence, and promote LGBT people’s rights. Nevertheless, these changes were met by the opposition from various conservative and religious groups that have, over time, become more sophisticated…
Vad spelar sexualitet för roll i kriget? Om den ryska invasionen, hbtq-rättigheter och civilsamhällets motstånd i Ukraina
Looking for Stepan Bandera
The so-called ‘denazification’ of Ukraine and the need to free the country from the radical nationalists was used by the Russian government as a central argument to justify the military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. However, the discussion of radical right-wing nationalist groups allegedly active in Ukraine and violently oppressing the Russian-speaking population have been maintained by the governing regime in Russia already since the so-…
Choosing to stay? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people and the war in Ukraine
sponsorship: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no 945380. (European Union|945380, Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)|945380)
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine
Under pressure from the European Union and civil society activists, countries in the European Neighborhood made some advancements concerning the human rights of LGBTI people. However, local resistance emerged as the EU advocated for LGBTI rights internationally. This article explores the role of the Christian Orthodox Church in such resistance in Georgia and Ukraine. It argues that as the LGBTI movement was gaining more visibility, the national C…
Post-socialist Revolutions of Intimacy
Fighting “Gayropa”
Against the backdrop of the conflict with Russia and growing approximation with the European Union (EU), the LGBTI movement in Ukraine seemed to have achieved some of its political goals, such as introducing changes in legislation and holding peaceful equality marches in Kyiv. At the same time, the last decade has seen a growing number of homophobic attacks by right-wing groups across the country, while sociological surveys have shown an increase…
LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective
Rediscovering Stanislavsky
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the extraordinary life of Stanislavsky, uncovering and translating Russian archival sources, rehearsal transcripts, production scores and plans. This comprehensive study rediscovers little-known areas…
Revolutions Remembered
The 2017 Golden Mask and National Theatre Award and Festival in Moscow offered, as it usually does, a wide range of large- and small-scale theatre, musical theatre, opera, ballet, contemporary dance, and puppetry – a month and more of intensive activity that keeps its annually changing jury on its toes. Maria Shevtsova provides an overview of the Russian Case: a concentration of productions for foreign producers and critics that reflects quite ac…
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different r…
Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
Interculturalism, Aestheticism, Orientalism
The criticism of 'intercultural' theatre in general, and Peter Brook's Mahabharata in particular, that was spearheaded by Rustom Bharucha in Theatre and the World , has taken firm hold in the Anglo-American academy and especially in Britain. Bharucha's critique of Eurocentric appropriation of non-western cultures (although the word 'plundering' might be more precise for his argument) is the mainstay of his attack on interculturalism, whether theo…
Theatre and Cultural Interaction
Fighting “Gayropa”
Against the backdrop of the conflict with Russia and growing approximation with the European Union (EU), the LGBTI movement in Ukraine seemed to have achieved some of its political goals, such as introducing changes in legislation and holding peaceful equality marches in Kyiv. At the same time, the last decade has seen a growing number of homophobic attacks by right-wing groups across the country, while sociological surveys have shown an increase…
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine
Under pressure from the European Union and civil society activists, countries in the European Neighborhood made some advancements concerning the human rights of LGBTI people. However, local resistance emerged as the EU advocated for LGBTI rights internationally. This article explores the role of the Christian Orthodox Church in such resistance in Georgia and Ukraine. It argues that as the LGBTI movement was gaining more visibility, the national C…
Post-socialist Revolutions of Intimacy
Solidarity test
When Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, many LGBTIQ Ukrainians, like hundreds of thousands of their compatriots, were forced to leave their homes and move to safer areas. Those who could and chose to leave the country, fearing for their safety, entered the bordering EU member states, such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, known for their unfriendly attitudes towards homosexuality. As neither the …
Interculturalism, Aestheticism, Orientalism
The criticism of 'intercultural' theatre in general, and Peter Brook's Mahabharata in particular, that was spearheaded by Rustom Bharucha in Theatre and the World , has taken firm hold in the Anglo-American academy and especially in Britain. Bharucha's critique of Eurocentric appropriation of non-western cultures (although the word 'plundering' might be more precise for his argument) is the mainstay of his attack on interculturalism, whether theo…
A Country Where Everyone Feels Free?” The Georgian Orthodox Church, Political Homophobia and Europeanization of LGBTIQ Rights in Georgia
Choosing to stay? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people and the war in Ukraine
sponsorship: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no 945380. (European Union|945380, Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)|945380)
Sexuality securitized
This article examines how the shifting security landscape following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is reconfiguring (anti)-LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe. Drawing on securitization theory, we unravel the changing construction of LGBTQ rights as a security issue in Ukraine and Georgia. We posit that securitization of sexuality occurs at the intersection of processes taking place at multiple scales: nation-building, in its imbrication wi…
Theatre and Cultural Interaction
Dialogism in the Novel and Bakhtin's Theory of Culture
AKHTIN'S INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION was well and truly established by the mid-1970s, primarily through Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and Rabelais and His World. impact of his ideas on contemporary intellectual life was greater still after the publication of Dialogic Imagination in 1981. volume comprises essays which were written during the 1930s but which were not published in Moscow until 1975. Two of them are central to this paper--Discourse i…
Bingo and the Bundle
Drama of a Nation
Georg Lukacs
Lucien Goldmann's Reading of Malraux
Dialogism in the Novel and Bakhtin's Theory of Culture
AKHTIN'S INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION was well and truly established by the mid-1970s, primarily through Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and Rabelais and His World. impact of his ideas on contemporary intellectual life was greater still after the publication of Dialogic Imagination in 1981. volume comprises essays which were written during the 1930s but which were not published in Moscow until 1975. Two of them are central to this paper--Discourse i…
Theatre and Cultural Interaction
Interculturalism, Aestheticism, Orientalism
The criticism of 'intercultural' theatre in general, and Peter Brook's Mahabharata in particular, that was spearheaded by Rustom Bharucha in Theatre and the World , has taken firm hold in the Anglo-American academy and especially in Britain. Bharucha's critique of Eurocentric appropriation of non-western cultures (although the word 'plundering' might be more precise for his argument) is the mainstay of his attack on interculturalism, whether theo…
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different r…
Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
Revolutions Remembered
The 2017 Golden Mask and National Theatre Award and Festival in Moscow offered, as it usually does, a wide range of large- and small-scale theatre, musical theatre, opera, ballet, contemporary dance, and puppetry – a month and more of intensive activity that keeps its annually changing jury on its toes. Maria Shevtsova provides an overview of the Russian Case: a concentration of productions for foreign producers and critics that reflects quite ac…
LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective
Rediscovering Stanislavsky
Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the extraordinary life of Stanislavsky, uncovering and translating Russian archival sources, rehearsal transcripts, production scores and plans. This comprehensive study rediscovers little-known areas…
Post-socialist Revolutions of Intimacy
Fighting “Gayropa”
Against the backdrop of the conflict with Russia and growing approximation with the European Union (EU), the LGBTI movement in Ukraine seemed to have achieved some of its political goals, such as introducing changes in legislation and holding peaceful equality marches in Kyiv. At the same time, the last decade has seen a growing number of homophobic attacks by right-wing groups across the country, while sociological surveys have shown an increase…
Looking for Stepan Bandera
The so-called ‘denazification’ of Ukraine and the need to free the country from the radical nationalists was used by the Russian government as a central argument to justify the military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. However, the discussion of radical right-wing nationalist groups allegedly active in Ukraine and violently oppressing the Russian-speaking population have been maintained by the governing regime in Russia already since the so-…
Choosing to stay? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people and the war in Ukraine
sponsorship: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no 945380. (European Union|945380, Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)|945380)
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine
Under pressure from the European Union and civil society activists, countries in the European Neighborhood made some advancements concerning the human rights of LGBTI people. However, local resistance emerged as the EU advocated for LGBTI rights internationally. This article explores the role of the Christian Orthodox Church in such resistance in Georgia and Ukraine. It argues that as the LGBTI movement was gaining more visibility, the national C…
Eighty Dates around the World
This autoethnographic essay focuses on various dimensions of transnational academic mobility. It explores a hybrid identity of an early career researcher in Western academia dealing with internationalisation as a dominant policy discourse in the sector of higher education and with mobility as one of the key mechanisms through which internationalisation takes place. Questioning the ways in which one’s gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and institutiona…
Solidarity test
When Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, many LGBTIQ Ukrainians, like hundreds of thousands of their compatriots, were forced to leave their homes and move to safer areas. Those who could and chose to leave the country, fearing for their safety, entered the bordering EU member states, such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, known for their unfriendly attitudes towards homosexuality. As neither the …
A Country Where Everyone Feels Free?” The Georgian Orthodox Church, Political Homophobia and Europeanization of LGBTIQ Rights in Georgia
Resisting “Liberal Values”
During the previous decade (2012–2021), in Ukraine, political pressure from the European Union combined with the efforts of the local civil society resulted in the adoption of legislation to prevent and eliminate discrimination, protect women from domestic violence, and promote LGBT people’s rights. Nevertheless, these changes were met by the opposition from various conservative and religious groups that have, over time, become more sophisticated…
Vad spelar sexualitet för roll i kriget? Om den ryska invasionen, hbtq-rättigheter och civilsamhällets motstånd i Ukraina
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voicesaims to give voices to feminist scholars from Ukraine and the wider Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. This volume, recognizing the long-neglected nature of the war evolving since 2014, offers a compilation of essays contributed by scholars spanning diverse disciplines and practitioners alike. Employing a wide array of data sources and methodologies—encompassing archival rese…
“Now I Know What It Means to Be a Donbas Child’s Mother”
This article analyses media representations of Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, in light of the ICC arrest warrant issued for her and Vladimir Putin over the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. Using discourse analysis across Ukrainian, Russian, and selected Western (UK/US) media, it examines how gendered narratives shape understandings of female agency, political violence, and motherhood. Drawing on femini…
Echoes, Resonances, and Continuities
EJTP gathers here a collection of writings (spanning from 1988 to 2025) that bear witness to Prof. Em. Maria Shevtsova’s sustained and critical expansion of her scholarship in the sociology of theatre and performance. Newly added comments to several excerpts presented her, which Shevtsova formulated in 2025, invite us to recognise the echoes, resonances, and continuities that define her intellectual trajectory
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