Laura Luciani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Luciani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Luciani |
| SIGNATURE | LUCIANI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5395-9918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“La fotografía se merece un lugar en la investigación académica mucho más importante del que tiene”. Entrevista a Cora Gamarnik
En esta entrevista, Cora Gamarnik –especialista en temas de cultura visual– nos relata su trayectoria de investigación, su acercamiento inicial a la historia de la fotografía y luego, el posterior enfoque de su indagación en el fotoperiodismo en Argentina. Gamarnik nos habla de su búsqueda de herramientas metodológicas para abordar un objeto de estudio novedoso y poco estudiado en el país. Su interés por vincular identidad y fotografía la hizo ce…
Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War
This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno‐Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on feminist approaches to geopolitics and post‐socialist coloniality, it asks whose security is served by a ‘geopolitical’ EU in Armenia and how this is received by differently situated populations on the ground. Through fieldwork conducted in Armenia'…
European values, Eurasian family, or neither? A contrapuntal reading of the European Union’s agenda to combat domestic violence in Armenia
This article studies how feminist activists in Armenia negotiate the agenda of the European Union (EU) to combat domestic violence in a contested geopolitical environment. Drawing on post-socialist feminist theorizing, it explores how feminist activists navigate the tensions generated by EU interventions (conditionality and civil society funding) amid Russia-inspired anti-gender campaigns, Soviet legacies, and neoliberal hegemony. I deploy contra…
Framing feminism in Eurasia: Bottom-Up Strategies of Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation
Worldwide, feminist politics is increasingly marginalised and faces resistance from governments and societies. In post-socialist Eurasia, gender discourses are dominated by international donors promoting a neoliberal approach, as well as states mobilising patriarchal norms for nation building. Focusing on three grassroots feminist initiatives in Eurasia, this article explores alternative gender visions emerging from the ground up, which are orien…
Sexuality securitized: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reconfigures (anti-)LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe
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…
Boosting resilience against climate change? A post-development and climate justice deconstruction of EU climate resilience-building in the South Caucasus
Navigating a ‘Shrinking Space’: Selective In/Visibilities and EU Engagement with Civil Society in Azerbaijan
In a context of legal and political repression, wherein even EU funding came to be politicised, Azerbaijan's civic space has been shrinking. This article problematises EU engagement with civil society in the neighbourhood by examining its on-the-ground negotiation in a complex field of visibility. It argues that human rights groups in Azerbaijan strategically activate selective in/visibilities to navigate the competing understandings of civil soc…
Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association
This article examines the interplay between the European Union’s (EU) interventions fostering LGBT+ rights in Georgia, and the visibility-raising strategies of local queer activists. The growing antagonism between the EU and Russia over their “shared neighborhood” crystallizes the idea of a value-based divide between the West/EUrope and the East/Russia on LGBT+ issues—with Georgia occupying a liminal position therein. The paper puts forward the c…
The EU's hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus: Constructing 'civil' society, depoliticising human rights
This article draws upon poststructuralist and postcolonial theories to examine the European Union's (EU's) policies of human rights promotion in the South Caucasus - notably, the EU's engagement with local human rights activists and organisations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Contrary to most literature, which has been concerned with policy (in)effectiveness, this article is interested in problematising the discursive foundations of this EU…
The EU's hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus: Constructing 'civil' society, depoliticising human rights
This article draws upon poststructuralist and postcolonial theories to examine the European Union's (EU's) policies of human rights promotion in the South Caucasus - notably, the EU's engagement with local human rights activists and organisations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Contrary to most literature, which has been concerned with policy (in)effectiveness, this article is interested in problematising the discursive foundations of this EU…
Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association
This article examines the interplay between the European Union’s (EU) interventions fostering LGBT+ rights in Georgia, and the visibility-raising strategies of local queer activists. The growing antagonism between the EU and Russia over their “shared neighborhood” crystallizes the idea of a value-based divide between the West/EUrope and the East/Russia on LGBT+ issues—with Georgia occupying a liminal position therein. The paper puts forward the c…
Navigating a ‘Shrinking Space’: Selective In/Visibilities and EU Engagement with Civil Society in Azerbaijan
In a context of legal and political repression, wherein even EU funding came to be politicised, Azerbaijan's civic space has been shrinking. This article problematises EU engagement with civil society in the neighbourhood by examining its on-the-ground negotiation in a complex field of visibility. It argues that human rights groups in Azerbaijan strategically activate selective in/visibilities to navigate the competing understandings of civil soc…
European values, Eurasian family, or neither? A contrapuntal reading of the European Union’s agenda to combat domestic violence in Armenia
This article studies how feminist activists in Armenia negotiate the agenda of the European Union (EU) to combat domestic violence in a contested geopolitical environment. Drawing on post-socialist feminist theorizing, it explores how feminist activists navigate the tensions generated by EU interventions (conditionality and civil society funding) amid Russia-inspired anti-gender campaigns, Soviet legacies, and neoliberal hegemony. I deploy contra…
Framing feminism in Eurasia: Bottom-Up Strategies of Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation
Worldwide, feminist politics is increasingly marginalised and faces resistance from governments and societies. In post-socialist Eurasia, gender discourses are dominated by international donors promoting a neoliberal approach, as well as states mobilising patriarchal norms for nation building. Focusing on three grassroots feminist initiatives in Eurasia, this article explores alternative gender visions emerging from the ground up, which are orien…
Sexuality securitized: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reconfigures (anti-)LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe
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…
Boosting resilience against climate change? A post-development and climate justice deconstruction of EU climate resilience-building in the South Caucasus
The EU's hegemonic interventions in the South Caucasus: Constructing 'civil' society, depoliticising human rights
This article draws upon poststructuralist and postcolonial theories to examine the European Union's (EU's) policies of human rights promotion in the South Caucasus - notably, the EU's engagement with local human rights activists and organisations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Contrary to most literature, which has been concerned with policy (in)effectiveness, this article is interested in problematising the discursive foundations of this EU…
Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association
This article examines the interplay between the European Union’s (EU) interventions fostering LGBT+ rights in Georgia, and the visibility-raising strategies of local queer activists. The growing antagonism between the EU and Russia over their “shared neighborhood” crystallizes the idea of a value-based divide between the West/EUrope and the East/Russia on LGBT+ issues—with Georgia occupying a liminal position therein. The paper puts forward the c…
Navigating a ‘Shrinking Space’: Selective In/Visibilities and EU Engagement with Civil Society in Azerbaijan
In a context of legal and political repression, wherein even EU funding came to be politicised, Azerbaijan's civic space has been shrinking. This article problematises EU engagement with civil society in the neighbourhood by examining its on-the-ground negotiation in a complex field of visibility. It argues that human rights groups in Azerbaijan strategically activate selective in/visibilities to navigate the competing understandings of civil soc…
Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War
This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno‐Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on feminist approaches to geopolitics and post‐socialist coloniality, it asks whose security is served by a ‘geopolitical’ EU in Armenia and how this is received by differently situated populations on the ground. Through fieldwork conducted in Armenia'…
European values, Eurasian family, or neither? A contrapuntal reading of the European Union’s agenda to combat domestic violence in Armenia
This article studies how feminist activists in Armenia negotiate the agenda of the European Union (EU) to combat domestic violence in a contested geopolitical environment. Drawing on post-socialist feminist theorizing, it explores how feminist activists navigate the tensions generated by EU interventions (conditionality and civil society funding) amid Russia-inspired anti-gender campaigns, Soviet legacies, and neoliberal hegemony. I deploy contra…
Framing feminism in Eurasia: Bottom-Up Strategies of Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation
Worldwide, feminist politics is increasingly marginalised and faces resistance from governments and societies. In post-socialist Eurasia, gender discourses are dominated by international donors promoting a neoliberal approach, as well as states mobilising patriarchal norms for nation building. Focusing on three grassroots feminist initiatives in Eurasia, this article explores alternative gender visions emerging from the ground up, which are orien…
Sexuality securitized: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reconfigures (anti-)LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe
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…
Boosting resilience against climate change? A post-development and climate justice deconstruction of EU climate resilience-building in the South Caucasus
“La fotografía se merece un lugar en la investigación académica mucho más importante del que tiene”. Entrevista a Cora Gamarnik
En esta entrevista, Cora Gamarnik –especialista en temas de cultura visual– nos relata su trayectoria de investigación, su acercamiento inicial a la historia de la fotografía y luego, el posterior enfoque de su indagación en el fotoperiodismo en Argentina. Gamarnik nos habla de su búsqueda de herramientas metodológicas para abordar un objeto de estudio novedoso y poco estudiado en el país. Su interés por vincular identidad y fotografía la hizo ce…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · European union (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Civil society (2 works)