Redi Koobak
Biographic Data
| ID | 2015387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Redi Koobak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Redi |
| FAMILY NAME | Koobak |
| SIGNATURE | KOOBAK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7932-2867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Automated Myth and the Postsocialist Digital State: The Imperial Trick of the Kratt AI Initiative in Estonia
This article examines Estonia’s Kratt AI initiative as a model for automating government services with AI systems. Responding to the state’s naming of these systems after the kratt—a mythic servant that turns on its master when left idle—the article advances the concept of “automated myth”: folklore embedded in AI to naturalize links between technological progress and liberal democracy. In Estonia, this myth performs an imperial trick, indigenizi…
Feminist knowledges in the age of AI
Teaching feminism in a broken world: Reading Spivak in troubled times
Feminist screamscapes towards sonic solidarities
Decolonial feminist aesthetics and sensibilities in filmmaking
Transnational and Decolonial Feminist Insights Into the Neoliberalization of Estonian Academia
Since the 1990s Estonia has been characterized by the acceptance of neoliberal values, as an antidote to the Soviet past. Neoliberal practices, like quantification and market- orientation, have permeated most spheres of society, including academia. There has been very little critical reflection on the epistemic inequalities created by this academic model for Estonia as a semi-peripheral country. In this article, the authors aim to place the neoli…
Years of the European Journal of Women’s Studies
The weight of witnessing
Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place
Living an African Feminist Life – Decolonial Perspectives
The interview conversation focuses on Victoria Kawesa’s take on African and decolonial feminism, discussed against the backdrop of her life story as an anti-racist, feminist activist, writer, and scholar. Victoria has been based in Sweden since she arrived there as a nine-year-old in 1984 together with her mother and siblings, coming as political refugees from Uganda, a country steeped in civil war at the time. As a practising Catholic, Victoria’…
The queer afterlives of texts
Four years after I published my thesis Whirling Stories: Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts (2013) on Estonian queer feminist artist Anna-Stina Treumund, the artist took her own life, after years of struggling with depression. In utter shock and deep grief, I posted a part of the text above on social media. An interlude in the thesis, it captures my memories of the moment when we first met at a three-day feminist workshop in a…
How to tell your story as the story of my feminism: Notes towards solidarity
There are so many ways we can fall flat on our faces when trying to act in the name of solidarity, no matter how noble our intentions. There are ways our solidarity can painfully bruise those we are trying to support. Lately, when discussing – with my students and colleagues – the ongoing "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran, Russia's attack on Ukraine, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the University and College Union industrial action in th…
The lay of the land
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice
The Postsocialist 'Missing Other' of Transnational Feminism
No abstract available
Narrating feminisms: What do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia
Drawing on interviews with women who identify as feminists in Estonia, this article explores how the stories we tell about feminism and its past influence the kind of theoretical and political work we are able to do. Zooming in on the story of the emergence of feminisms in postsocialist Estonia which has not been thoroughly researched yet, this article calls upon feminists in Estonia to reflect critically on how they conceptualize feminisms, whil…
Intersections of Feminisms and Neoliberalism: Post-State-Socialist Estonia in a Transnational Feminist Framework
Raili Marling, Redi Koobak, Intersections of Feminisms and Neoliberalism: Post-State-Socialist Estonia in a Transnational Feminist Framework, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 1-21
Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues
In the context of the continuing dominance of delocalised Western feminist theoretical models, which allow the non-Western and not quite Western 'others' to either be epistemically annihilated or appropriated, it becomes crucial to look for transformative feminist theoretical tools which can eventually help break the so-called mere recognition patterns and move in the direction of transversal dialogues, mutual learning practices and volatile but …
The decolonial challenge: Framing post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe within transnational feminist studies
The article explores the location of Central and Eastern Europe in transnational feminist studies. The authors argue that there is a pressing need for theories which can approach the near absence of Central and Eastern European perspectives from transnational feminist theorising, and challenge the limited number of discursive tropes associated with post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe – especially that of a ‘lag’, where difference is transla…
Nordic Terror Is Not Exceptional
Re-orienting Nordicness, Again
Becoming Non-Swedish: Locating the Paradoxes of In/Visible Identities
Getting into the Habit
In this issue of NORA we present three original articles on three diverse topics by authors from three different countries. The first article in this issue concerns popular therapeutic culture, suc
Survival Stories
This issue of NORA is dedicated to quite diverse narratives of survival and the feminist politics of rescilience and endurance. In this editorial (editorial survey) we discuss such recent research
Normal People Worry Us
This issue of NORA brings together three articles that could be seen as addressing the question “What is normal?” in three very different ways. These articles demonstrate that this seemingly simple
Beyond the Humanist Imagination
Recent stirrings wihin the humanities and the social sciences, perhaps especially within feminist theory, have engendered new materialist, feminist materialist and posthumanist approaches to life w
The decolonial challenge: Framing post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe within transnational feminist studies
The article explores the location of Central and Eastern Europe in transnational feminist studies. The authors argue that there is a pressing need for theories which can approach the near absence of Central and Eastern European perspectives from transnational feminist theorising, and challenge the limited number of discursive tropes associated with post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe – especially that of a ‘lag’, where difference is transla…
Becoming Non-Swedish: Locating the Paradoxes of In/Visible Identities
The Postsocialist 'Missing Other' of Transnational Feminism
No abstract available
Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues
In the context of the continuing dominance of delocalised Western feminist theoretical models, which allow the non-Western and not quite Western 'others' to either be epistemically annihilated or appropriated, it becomes crucial to look for transformative feminist theoretical tools which can eventually help break the so-called mere recognition patterns and move in the direction of transversal dialogues, mutual learning practices and volatile but …
Narrating feminisms: What do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia
Drawing on interviews with women who identify as feminists in Estonia, this article explores how the stories we tell about feminism and its past influence the kind of theoretical and political work we are able to do. Zooming in on the story of the emergence of feminisms in postsocialist Estonia which has not been thoroughly researched yet, this article calls upon feminists in Estonia to reflect critically on how they conceptualize feminisms, whil…
How to tell your story as the story of my feminism: Notes towards solidarity
There are so many ways we can fall flat on our faces when trying to act in the name of solidarity, no matter how noble our intentions. There are ways our solidarity can painfully bruise those we are trying to support. Lately, when discussing – with my students and colleagues – the ongoing "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran, Russia's attack on Ukraine, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the University and College Union industrial action in th…
Intersections of Feminisms and Neoliberalism: Post-State-Socialist Estonia in a Transnational Feminist Framework
Raili Marling, Redi Koobak, Intersections of Feminisms and Neoliberalism: Post-State-Socialist Estonia in a Transnational Feminist Framework, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 1-21
Post-humanities is a Feminist Issue
Care to Compare
Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied
(2010). Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Vol. 18, Writing Change? Contemporary Challenges for Feminist and Gender Studies, pp. 223-225
Comparing Maps
Care to Compare
Getting into the Habit
In this issue of NORA we present three original articles on three diverse topics by authors from three different countries. The first article in this issue concerns popular therapeutic culture, suc
Survival Stories
This issue of NORA is dedicated to quite diverse narratives of survival and the feminist politics of rescilience and endurance. In this editorial (editorial survey) we discuss such recent research
Normal People Worry Us
This issue of NORA brings together three articles that could be seen as addressing the question “What is normal?” in three very different ways. These articles demonstrate that this seemingly simple
Post-humanities is a Feminist Issue
Beyond the Humanist Imagination
Recent stirrings wihin the humanities and the social sciences, perhaps especially within feminist theory, have engendered new materialist, feminist materialist and posthumanist approaches to life w
Nordic Terror Is Not Exceptional
Re-orienting Nordicness, Again
Becoming Non-Swedish: Locating the Paradoxes of In/Visible Identities
The decolonial challenge: Framing post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe within transnational feminist studies
The article explores the location of Central and Eastern Europe in transnational feminist studies. The authors argue that there is a pressing need for theories which can approach the near absence of Central and Eastern European perspectives from transnational feminist theorising, and challenge the limited number of discursive tropes associated with post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe – especially that of a ‘lag’, where difference is transla…
Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues
In the context of the continuing dominance of delocalised Western feminist theoretical models, which allow the non-Western and not quite Western 'others' to either be epistemically annihilated or appropriated, it becomes crucial to look for transformative feminist theoretical tools which can eventually help break the so-called mere recognition patterns and move in the direction of transversal dialogues, mutual learning practices and volatile but …
Intersections of Feminisms and Neoliberalism: Post-State-Socialist Estonia in a Transnational Feminist Framework
Raili Marling, Redi Koobak, Intersections of Feminisms and Neoliberalism: Post-State-Socialist Estonia in a Transnational Feminist Framework, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 1-21
Narrating feminisms: What do we talk about when we talk about feminism in Estonia
Drawing on interviews with women who identify as feminists in Estonia, this article explores how the stories we tell about feminism and its past influence the kind of theoretical and political work we are able to do. Zooming in on the story of the emergence of feminisms in postsocialist Estonia which has not been thoroughly researched yet, this article calls upon feminists in Estonia to reflect critically on how they conceptualize feminisms, whil…
The Postsocialist 'Missing Other' of Transnational Feminism
No abstract available
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice
The lay of the land
Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place
Living an African Feminist Life – Decolonial Perspectives
The interview conversation focuses on Victoria Kawesa’s take on African and decolonial feminism, discussed against the backdrop of her life story as an anti-racist, feminist activist, writer, and scholar. Victoria has been based in Sweden since she arrived there as a nine-year-old in 1984 together with her mother and siblings, coming as political refugees from Uganda, a country steeped in civil war at the time. As a practising Catholic, Victoria’…
The queer afterlives of texts
Four years after I published my thesis Whirling Stories: Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts (2013) on Estonian queer feminist artist Anna-Stina Treumund, the artist took her own life, after years of struggling with depression. In utter shock and deep grief, I posted a part of the text above on social media. An interlude in the thesis, it captures my memories of the moment when we first met at a three-day feminist workshop in a…
How to tell your story as the story of my feminism: Notes towards solidarity
There are so many ways we can fall flat on our faces when trying to act in the name of solidarity, no matter how noble our intentions. There are ways our solidarity can painfully bruise those we are trying to support. Lately, when discussing – with my students and colleagues – the ongoing "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran, Russia's attack on Ukraine, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the University and College Union industrial action in th…
Transnational and Decolonial Feminist Insights Into the Neoliberalization of Estonian Academia
Since the 1990s Estonia has been characterized by the acceptance of neoliberal values, as an antidote to the Soviet past. Neoliberal practices, like quantification and market- orientation, have permeated most spheres of society, including academia. There has been very little critical reflection on the epistemic inequalities created by this academic model for Estonia as a semi-peripheral country. In this article, the authors aim to place the neoli…
Years of the European Journal of Women’s Studies
The weight of witnessing
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Feminism (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works)