Dorota Golańska
Biographic Data
| ID | 339448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorota Golańska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorota |
| FAMILY NAME | Golańska |
| SIGNATURE | GOLAŃSKA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lodz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5458-7842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why ‘smart’ in smart homes should be plural? Charting the futurescapes of smart living
This article interrogates the idea of ‘smartness’ as embraced by artistic and design representations of future domestic spaces. Through an analysis of works of individual artists, designers, and curators (Aideen Barry, Kuba Jekiel, Rowan Elselmy) as well as collectives (UCL, Liminal Space, Dark Matter Labs, Superflux, the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, SquintOpera), we explore how these creative interventions reconfigure the well…
Spatializing nationhood
A Wicked Vestal
Drawing on feminist technology studies' interventions in current research on smart homes, this article offers an analysis of recent cultural artifacts that – in contrast to the predominant marketized narratives infused with androcentricity and biased toward a reaffirmation of stereotypical gender roles – dislocate the conventional power relations within the technologized domestic space. The article elaborates an original concept of a 'wicked vest…
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert
Experimenting with a new materialist diffractive approach, this article offers an insight into the agential capacities of lines by juxtaposing two apparently unrelated cases of large-scale drawing practices: the aesthetic process involved in an event of artistic creation and the scientific process of visual representation of data-supported meteorological measurements. The article makes use of the analysis of Jim Denevan’s land art as a tool with …
Spaces of fluidity
This article engages with the material geographies of colonialism in Israel/Palestine by looking at the site-specific cultural activities in Iqrit (Israel), a Christian-Arab village depopulated during the 1948 war in the region. We investigate the importance of material infrastructure - and material, bodily encounters with the site - as a basis for the place-based activist memory-work, as well as exposing the ways in which such activities contrib…
Memorializing the unspectacular
This essay explores the difficulties faced by the field of memory studies to adequately address unspectacular violence. While a majority of mnemonic strategies focus on events of spectacular disasters, outrageous atrocities, extreme occurrences, and massive sufferings contained in time and space, the damages generated by unspectacular operations of slow, latent, and silent violence remain difficult to recognize within the memorial landscape. Buil…
Slowness as warfare
Engaging with recent applications of the concept of slow violence to the ongoing political developments in the West Bank, this review article argues that the relational approach offered by feminist geopolitics facilitates the conception of slow violence and warfare as part of a single complex of violence. The article traces feminist geopolitics' contribution to research on geographies of slow violence on the one hand, and to the analyses produced…
Slow Urbicide
The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of aggressive spatial containment and regularization of urbanity employed within the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Building on recent scholarship on slow violence and urbicidal policies, it discusses the different dimensions of the violence against the urban space, as well as exposes the complex material-…
Investigating Cultures of Equality
This volume explores the processes of investigating cultures of equality and sets out an epistemological framework for generating a more just and response-able knowledge. It offers a tapestry of inventive, self-reflexive, collective, and situated praxis of conducting a politically informed research. Such efforts contest—or occasionally reinvent—the social and cultural worlds that we currently inhabit, in an attempt at building cultures of equalit…
Exposing Poland’s shameful past
Employing concepts of traumatic memory, post-memory, and dirty memory, this article analyzes the narrative of Władysław Pasikowski’s Aftermath (2012) to shed light on broader processes of (non-)engagement with the traumatic, culturally mediated past connected with the tangled legacies of the Holocaust in Poland. Analysis of the film’s narrative and attention to its reception in Poland can help to diagnose the condition of collective memory of the…
Slow urbicide
The article explores the conceptual affinities of slow violence and urbicidal policies in the context of the ongoing Israeli colonization of the West Bank. It investigates the processes of the systematic degeneration of Palestinian urban tissue, triggered by state-supported intentional developments connected to the Israeli settlement project. Building on recent scholarship on slow violence, on the one hand, and urbicidal policies, on the other, t…
Slow Urbicide
Against the “Moonlight and Magnolia” myth of the American South. A new materialist approach to the dissonant heritage of slavery in the US
The article presents an analysis of the operations of the Whitney Plantation Museum, which opened in 2014 in Wallace, LA (USA), situated within the context of plantation heritage tourism in the American South. The argumentation offers an illustration of the significant transition, even though still of marginal character, of the dominant tendencies of representing slavery in heritage sites (plantation museums) devoted to cultivating knowledge abou…
Bodily collisions
The major objective of this article is to elaborate on the new materialist philosophical framework as a useful analytical perspective for approaching contemporary artistic memorials. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (designed by Eisenman, 2005) and The Garden of Exile (designed by Libeskind, 2001), both situated in Berlin, serve as illustrative examples for theoretical investigations developed in this contribution. Relying on Deleuze a…
Affective spaces, sensuous engagements
Although relatively recent, the concepts of 'dark tourism', 'difficult heritage tourism' and 'Holocaust tourism' have already been approached from historical, cultural, sociological, anthropological and managerial perspectives. The article offers a philosophical inquiry of 'dark attractions', inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's work on aesthetics, with an aim of divorcing the term 'dark tourism' from its typically negative valance. It makes use of…
Slow urbicide
The article explores the conceptual affinities of slow violence and urbicidal policies in the context of the ongoing Israeli colonization of the West Bank. It investigates the processes of the systematic degeneration of Palestinian urban tissue, triggered by state-supported intentional developments connected to the Israeli settlement project. Building on recent scholarship on slow violence, on the one hand, and urbicidal policies, on the other, t…
Affective spaces, sensuous engagements
Although relatively recent, the concepts of 'dark tourism', 'difficult heritage tourism' and 'Holocaust tourism' have already been approached from historical, cultural, sociological, anthropological and managerial perspectives. The article offers a philosophical inquiry of 'dark attractions', inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's work on aesthetics, with an aim of divorcing the term 'dark tourism' from its typically negative valance. It makes use of…
Bodily collisions
The major objective of this article is to elaborate on the new materialist philosophical framework as a useful analytical perspective for approaching contemporary artistic memorials. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (designed by Eisenman, 2005) and The Garden of Exile (designed by Libeskind, 2001), both situated in Berlin, serve as illustrative examples for theoretical investigations developed in this contribution. Relying on Deleuze a…
Slowness as warfare
Engaging with recent applications of the concept of slow violence to the ongoing political developments in the West Bank, this review article argues that the relational approach offered by feminist geopolitics facilitates the conception of slow violence and warfare as part of a single complex of violence. The article traces feminist geopolitics' contribution to research on geographies of slow violence on the one hand, and to the analyses produced…
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert
Experimenting with a new materialist diffractive approach, this article offers an insight into the agential capacities of lines by juxtaposing two apparently unrelated cases of large-scale drawing practices: the aesthetic process involved in an event of artistic creation and the scientific process of visual representation of data-supported meteorological measurements. The article makes use of the analysis of Jim Denevan’s land art as a tool with …
Spaces of fluidity
This article engages with the material geographies of colonialism in Israel/Palestine by looking at the site-specific cultural activities in Iqrit (Israel), a Christian-Arab village depopulated during the 1948 war in the region. We investigate the importance of material infrastructure - and material, bodily encounters with the site - as a basis for the place-based activist memory-work, as well as exposing the ways in which such activities contrib…
Memorializing the unspectacular
This essay explores the difficulties faced by the field of memory studies to adequately address unspectacular violence. While a majority of mnemonic strategies focus on events of spectacular disasters, outrageous atrocities, extreme occurrences, and massive sufferings contained in time and space, the damages generated by unspectacular operations of slow, latent, and silent violence remain difficult to recognize within the memorial landscape. Buil…
Exposing Poland’s shameful past
Employing concepts of traumatic memory, post-memory, and dirty memory, this article analyzes the narrative of Władysław Pasikowski’s Aftermath (2012) to shed light on broader processes of (non-)engagement with the traumatic, culturally mediated past connected with the tangled legacies of the Holocaust in Poland. Analysis of the film’s narrative and attention to its reception in Poland can help to diagnose the condition of collective memory of the…
Affective spaces, sensuous engagements
Although relatively recent, the concepts of 'dark tourism', 'difficult heritage tourism' and 'Holocaust tourism' have already been approached from historical, cultural, sociological, anthropological and managerial perspectives. The article offers a philosophical inquiry of 'dark attractions', inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's work on aesthetics, with an aim of divorcing the term 'dark tourism' from its typically negative valance. It makes use of…
Bodily collisions
The major objective of this article is to elaborate on the new materialist philosophical framework as a useful analytical perspective for approaching contemporary artistic memorials. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (designed by Eisenman, 2005) and The Garden of Exile (designed by Libeskind, 2001), both situated in Berlin, serve as illustrative examples for theoretical investigations developed in this contribution. Relying on Deleuze a…
Against the “Moonlight and Magnolia” myth of the American South. A new materialist approach to the dissonant heritage of slavery in the US
The article presents an analysis of the operations of the Whitney Plantation Museum, which opened in 2014 in Wallace, LA (USA), situated within the context of plantation heritage tourism in the American South. The argumentation offers an illustration of the significant transition, even though still of marginal character, of the dominant tendencies of representing slavery in heritage sites (plantation museums) devoted to cultivating knowledge abou…
Slow Urbicide
The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of aggressive spatial containment and regularization of urbanity employed within the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Building on recent scholarship on slow violence and urbicidal policies, it discusses the different dimensions of the violence against the urban space, as well as exposes the complex material-…
Investigating Cultures of Equality
This volume explores the processes of investigating cultures of equality and sets out an epistemological framework for generating a more just and response-able knowledge. It offers a tapestry of inventive, self-reflexive, collective, and situated praxis of conducting a politically informed research. Such efforts contest—or occasionally reinvent—the social and cultural worlds that we currently inhabit, in an attempt at building cultures of equalit…
Exposing Poland’s shameful past
Employing concepts of traumatic memory, post-memory, and dirty memory, this article analyzes the narrative of Władysław Pasikowski’s Aftermath (2012) to shed light on broader processes of (non-)engagement with the traumatic, culturally mediated past connected with the tangled legacies of the Holocaust in Poland. Analysis of the film’s narrative and attention to its reception in Poland can help to diagnose the condition of collective memory of the…
Slow urbicide
The article explores the conceptual affinities of slow violence and urbicidal policies in the context of the ongoing Israeli colonization of the West Bank. It investigates the processes of the systematic degeneration of Palestinian urban tissue, triggered by state-supported intentional developments connected to the Israeli settlement project. Building on recent scholarship on slow violence, on the one hand, and urbicidal policies, on the other, t…
Slow Urbicide
Memorializing the unspectacular
This essay explores the difficulties faced by the field of memory studies to adequately address unspectacular violence. While a majority of mnemonic strategies focus on events of spectacular disasters, outrageous atrocities, extreme occurrences, and massive sufferings contained in time and space, the damages generated by unspectacular operations of slow, latent, and silent violence remain difficult to recognize within the memorial landscape. Buil…
Slowness as warfare
Engaging with recent applications of the concept of slow violence to the ongoing political developments in the West Bank, this review article argues that the relational approach offered by feminist geopolitics facilitates the conception of slow violence and warfare as part of a single complex of violence. The article traces feminist geopolitics' contribution to research on geographies of slow violence on the one hand, and to the analyses produced…
A Wicked Vestal
Drawing on feminist technology studies' interventions in current research on smart homes, this article offers an analysis of recent cultural artifacts that – in contrast to the predominant marketized narratives infused with androcentricity and biased toward a reaffirmation of stereotypical gender roles – dislocate the conventional power relations within the technologized domestic space. The article elaborates an original concept of a 'wicked vest…
Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert
Experimenting with a new materialist diffractive approach, this article offers an insight into the agential capacities of lines by juxtaposing two apparently unrelated cases of large-scale drawing practices: the aesthetic process involved in an event of artistic creation and the scientific process of visual representation of data-supported meteorological measurements. The article makes use of the analysis of Jim Denevan’s land art as a tool with …
Spaces of fluidity
This article engages with the material geographies of colonialism in Israel/Palestine by looking at the site-specific cultural activities in Iqrit (Israel), a Christian-Arab village depopulated during the 1948 war in the region. We investigate the importance of material infrastructure - and material, bodily encounters with the site - as a basis for the place-based activist memory-work, as well as exposing the ways in which such activities contrib…
Spatializing nationhood
Why ‘smart’ in smart homes should be plural? Charting the futurescapes of smart living
This article interrogates the idea of ‘smartness’ as embraced by artistic and design representations of future domestic spaces. Through an analysis of works of individual artists, designers, and curators (Aideen Barry, Kuba Jekiel, Rowan Elselmy) as well as collectives (UCL, Liminal Space, Dark Matter Labs, Superflux, the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, SquintOpera), we explore how these creative interventions reconfigure the well…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Materialism (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)