Libora Oates-Indruchová
Biographic Data
| ID | 186803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Libora Oates-Indruchová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Libora |
| FAMILY NAME | Oates-Indruchová |
| SIGNATURE | OATES-INDRUCHOVÁ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1384-0450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to the special issue
This article introduces the special issue Slow Memory Studies , which emerges from the COST Action “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change.” In a world defined by rapid technological, socio economic, and political shifts, the concept of slow memory offers an alternative analytical framework that foregrounds gradual, often imperceptible transformations shaping everyday life. Rather than centring spectacul…
Imagined conversations
The article presents “imagined conversations” as a method of narrative research presentation of a slow change in an institutional context, developed while researching academic censorship and publishing in the state-socialist Czech Republic and Hungary. The aim was, first, to capture the gradual transformation of institutions, the people in them, and the textual work they produced under politically restrictive conditions. Second, it was to allow t…
Tug-of-War of the Powerful / A Useful Addition to Research on State-Socialist Censorship, although in Want of a Theoretical Synthesis
set themselves the ambitious goal to "capture the dynamics" (p.12) of the politics of press regulation between the years 1968 and 1989 (the period of the so-called normalization) in the Czech lands
Introduction
This article introduces the Special Section of EEPS on Everyday Creativity and Gender in Postsocialism. It provides the theoretical and methodological background of the four articles contained in the section and supplies their brief summary. It contextualizes feminist research on creativity and the postsocialist condition
The History of the Czech Women’s Movement
The end of WW2 in 1945 represented a key point of reference from which societal progress was measured in Czech school education and media discourse. The author reflects on the silencing of other histories that this dominant perspective produced. Interviews conducted in 2005 with the author’s grandmother whose memory reached to the 1920s, a period of politically and culturally visible women’s movement, serve to illustrate the near disappearance of…
What happened to my time during the Covid-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted individuals to devise new temporal strategies in various spheres of their lives as a result of the spatial regulations imposed during the first lockdown. We apply Lisa Suckert’s theoretical model of ‘the capitalist time regime’ in the analysis of 68 interviews with parents of schoolchildren in seven European countries conducted during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. We examine actors’ agency and capabili…
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities
Over the last two decades, theoretical discussions around creativity have turned around addressing existing dichotomies in its conceptualization such as professional/everyday and public/private, to mention the two most relevant to the theme of this special issue. Cultural studies have been critical of approaching creativity in terms of individual talent and the elite (‘creative class’), in economic terms (‘creative industries’) or in terms of exc…
Time, space and the promise of the visibility of gender during the pandemic
Gender and Changes in the Division of Labour in Households with Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The article ties in with the scholarship on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gender equality. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents of children under 12, we examine the processes that led to the increase or dismantling of the gender division of labour in families during the first nationwide lockdown. Using the concepts of path dependency and 'doing' and 'undoing' gender, we explain the strategies couples with children u…
Eine feministische Bru ̈cke zwischen Ost und West. In Memoriam Hana Havelková, 18. September 1949 bis 31. Oktober 2020
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism
Gender is rarely considered in the works on state socialism in Czech history writing. Given the prominence of the equality of the sexes in communist rhetoric and the heated anti- and pro-feminism media and intellectual debates of the 1990s, the omission stands out as a remarkable loss of opportunity in historical research. It also defies logic. For if “emancipation” and “equality” were so strongly present in pre-1989 discourse and women constitut…
Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969–89
How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors foster creativity or did unintentional self-censorship lead to the detriment of thought? Drawing on oral history and primary source material from the Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and state science policy documents, Libora Oates-Indruchová explores to what extent scholarly publis…
Post-Yugoslav feminist activism in the 21st century
Self-Censorship and Aesopian Language of Scholarly Texts of Late State Socialism
From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area
This article is part of the special section titled From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area, guest edited by Wolfgang Mueller and Libora Oates-Indruchová
Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth? Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture
The hostility that met feminist ideas and gender equality issues in east central Europe (ECE) after the demise of the Communist regimes was accompanied by a notion that feminism wasimportedto these societies after 1989. In the Czech Republic, the record of the publishing output by feminist scholars in the 1990s, however, speaks against this myth. Drawing on existing scholarship and the author's own research on cultural discourses of gender and on…
Border Visions and Border Regimes in Cold War Eastern Europe
The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism
Introduction 1. Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism Czech Society, 1948-1989 Hana Havelkova and Libora Oates-Indruchova Part One: Gender as a social category 2. The three stages of gender in law Barbara Havelkova 3. Women's organizations in the Czech lands, 1948-1989: an historical perspective Denisa Necasova 4. State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state soci…
Introduction Borders in the Social and Cultural Practice of Communist and Postcommunist Europe
Introduction
The 1989/1991 demise of European communist regimes created a powerful impulse for the investigation of memory cultures at Cold War borders and, subsequently, for reflections on the creation of new European border regimes. The four studies included in this special section investigate these two processes on a micro level of their dynamics in new and old borderlands from the perspectives of history, anthropology and political science. At the same ti…
Komárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
Komárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
K omárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
Neither Woman Nor Jew
Denisa NEČAsovÁ, Buduj vlast – posílíš mír! Ženské hnutí v českých zemích 1945–1955
Recenze
Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth? Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture
The hostility that met feminist ideas and gender equality issues in east central Europe (ECE) after the demise of the Communist regimes was accompanied by a notion that feminism wasimportedto these societies after 1989. In the Czech Republic, the record of the publishing output by feminist scholars in the 1990s, however, speaks against this myth. Drawing on existing scholarship and the author's own research on cultural discourses of gender and on…
What happened to my time during the Covid-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted individuals to devise new temporal strategies in various spheres of their lives as a result of the spatial regulations imposed during the first lockdown. We apply Lisa Suckert’s theoretical model of ‘the capitalist time regime’ in the analysis of 68 interviews with parents of schoolchildren in seven European countries conducted during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. We examine actors’ agency and capabili…
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism
Gender is rarely considered in the works on state socialism in Czech history writing. Given the prominence of the equality of the sexes in communist rhetoric and the heated anti- and pro-feminism media and intellectual debates of the 1990s, the omission stands out as a remarkable loss of opportunity in historical research. It also defies logic. For if “emancipation” and “equality” were so strongly present in pre-1989 discourse and women constitut…
Introduction
The 1989/1991 demise of European communist regimes created a powerful impulse for the investigation of memory cultures at Cold War borders and, subsequently, for reflections on the creation of new European border regimes. The four studies included in this special section investigate these two processes on a micro level of their dynamics in new and old borderlands from the perspectives of history, anthropology and political science. At the same ti…
Komárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
The Void of Acceptable Masculinity During Czech State Socialism
During Czech state socialism, masculinity in cultural representations was bound up with the official sociology, and thus, it was likely to be discredited in popular perception. As the dominant ideology took over the main existing models, the concept of masculinity was devoid of any alternative model. The popular novel published during the last years of state socialism, which this article considers as a case study, fills the void of masculinity wi…
Gender and Changes in the Division of Labour in Households with Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The article ties in with the scholarship on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gender equality. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents of children under 12, we examine the processes that led to the increase or dismantling of the gender division of labour in families during the first nationwide lockdown. Using the concepts of path dependency and 'doing' and 'undoing' gender, we explain the strategies couples with children u…
Border Visions and Border Regimes in Cold War Eastern Europe
The Limits of Thought
In the Czechoslovak context, it is relatively unsurprising that humanities and social sciences became a primary focus of the ideological pressure in the aftermath of the Soviet-led invasion of Czec
Male Bodies Resisting the West and the Past
Male Bodies Resisting the West and the Past
The Void of Acceptable Masculinity During Czech State Socialism
During Czech state socialism, masculinity in cultural representations was bound up with the official sociology, and thus, it was likely to be discredited in popular perception. As the dominant ideology took over the main existing models, the concept of masculinity was devoid of any alternative model. The popular novel published during the last years of state socialism, which this article considers as a case study, fills the void of masculinity wi…
The Limits of Thought
In the Czechoslovak context, it is relatively unsurprising that humanities and social sciences became a primary focus of the ideological pressure in the aftermath of the Soviet-led invasion of Czec
Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV
Denisa NEČAsovÁ, Buduj vlast – posílíš mír! Ženské hnutí v českých zemích 1945–1955
Recenze
The Beauty and the Loser
Research on gender under state socialism has been predominantly concerned with women in the labor force, including issues such as the double burden, state and private patriarchy, and welfare. Little research has so far been published on the discursive space open for negotiation of gender or the creation of new meanings or positions. Based on a sample of official bureaucratic rhetoric and journalistic and popular texts (including the novels For Re…
Komárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
Komárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
K omárno
Depuis le traité de Trianon, Komarno est, dans la politique symbolique slovaque et hongroise, beaucoup plus qu’une simple ville à la frontière de l’ancien État dirigeant. Elle représente l’ensemble de la communauté hongroise en Slovaquie. Les auteures se fondent sur l’histoire orale tirée d’interviews qu’elles analysent en lien avec les politiques locales ou centrales des gouvernements slovaques et hongrois. Elles étudient plus précisément la per…
Neither Woman Nor Jew
The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism
Introduction 1. Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism Czech Society, 1948-1989 Hana Havelkova and Libora Oates-Indruchova Part One: Gender as a social category 2. The three stages of gender in law Barbara Havelkova 3. Women's organizations in the Czech lands, 1948-1989: an historical perspective Denisa Necasova 4. State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state soci…
Introduction Borders in the Social and Cultural Practice of Communist and Postcommunist Europe
Introduction
The 1989/1991 demise of European communist regimes created a powerful impulse for the investigation of memory cultures at Cold War borders and, subsequently, for reflections on the creation of new European border regimes. The four studies included in this special section investigate these two processes on a micro level of their dynamics in new and old borderlands from the perspectives of history, anthropology and political science. At the same ti…
Border Visions and Border Regimes in Cold War Eastern Europe
Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth? Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture
The hostility that met feminist ideas and gender equality issues in east central Europe (ECE) after the demise of the Communist regimes was accompanied by a notion that feminism wasimportedto these societies after 1989. In the Czech Republic, the record of the publishing output by feminist scholars in the 1990s, however, speaks against this myth. Drawing on existing scholarship and the author's own research on cultural discourses of gender and on…
From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area
This article is part of the special section titled From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area, guest edited by Wolfgang Mueller and Libora Oates-Indruchová
Self-Censorship and Aesopian Language of Scholarly Texts of Late State Socialism
Post-Yugoslav feminist activism in the 21st century
Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969–89
How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors foster creativity or did unintentional self-censorship lead to the detriment of thought? Drawing on oral history and primary source material from the Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and state science policy documents, Libora Oates-Indruchová explores to what extent scholarly publis…
Eine feministische Bru ̈cke zwischen Ost und West. In Memoriam Hana Havelková, 18. September 1949 bis 31. Oktober 2020
Blind Spots in Post-1989 Czech Historiography of State Socialism
Gender is rarely considered in the works on state socialism in Czech history writing. Given the prominence of the equality of the sexes in communist rhetoric and the heated anti- and pro-feminism media and intellectual debates of the 1990s, the omission stands out as a remarkable loss of opportunity in historical research. It also defies logic. For if “emancipation” and “equality” were so strongly present in pre-1989 discourse and women constitut…
Gender perspectives on professional and everyday creativities
Over the last two decades, theoretical discussions around creativity have turned around addressing existing dichotomies in its conceptualization such as professional/everyday and public/private, to mention the two most relevant to the theme of this special issue. Cultural studies have been critical of approaching creativity in terms of individual talent and the elite (‘creative class’), in economic terms (‘creative industries’) or in terms of exc…
Time, space and the promise of the visibility of gender during the pandemic
Gender and Changes in the Division of Labour in Households with Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The article ties in with the scholarship on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gender equality. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with parents of children under 12, we examine the processes that led to the increase or dismantling of the gender division of labour in families during the first nationwide lockdown. Using the concepts of path dependency and 'doing' and 'undoing' gender, we explain the strategies couples with children u…
What happened to my time during the Covid-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted individuals to devise new temporal strategies in various spheres of their lives as a result of the spatial regulations imposed during the first lockdown. We apply Lisa Suckert’s theoretical model of ‘the capitalist time regime’ in the analysis of 68 interviews with parents of schoolchildren in seven European countries conducted during the first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. We examine actors’ agency and capabili…
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