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IDEAS Podcast

Bringing hope in hopeless times

This episode would have us engage with „humanity’s biggest driving force – hope” albeit from a feminist perspective and it is, therefore, focusing on the right and the imagination of women who look toward a better future. The topic is addressed first from a historical view and takes into account important utopian thinkers such as…

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Imagining a feminist workplace: transformative potential of trade unions

Relying on carefully selected data as well as relevant feminist theorists, such as Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Silvia Federici, this episode highlights the core of the feminist argument on the significance of social reproduction, as it explains how the „production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process.“…

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The work of art: art and labor from dematerialization to extreme care

Analyzing some well-chosen works of art in its diverse presentations, from conceptual to performative art – among others – this episode offers an excellent, eye-opening gender reading and astute feminist interpretations of representative women’s art,  centered on women’s perennial experiences of caregiving, everpresent universal maintenance, housework, motherhood – all within the “ aggressive pressure of…

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Neocolonialism, Capitalism and Inequality

The final episode of this module takes on a global perspective, using as a point of departure de-colonial theorists Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Maria Lugones, and others. The key malady, the main disorder, on a global scale, is extreme inequality, its diagnosis is capitalism in its current neoliberal format. International „…institutions … that…

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Rethinking Gender, Unemployment and underemployment. Ethnographies of Croatia’s socialist and modern-day economies

This opening episode of the module on feminist political economy and social reproduction is based on qualitative ethnographic research of an illustrative example, namely the Croatian economic system in the transition time of the early 1990s. How, if at all, and at whose expense, one is expected to balance everyday life „ while coping with…

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Sexual health, pleasure and more

All the questions addressed in this episode constitute the most important issues of sex education which is indispensable in our contemporary society, especially where young people are concerned: What is sex? Is there only one kind of sex? Are sexual practices gendered?  How is sexual health related to all of these? How many forms of…

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Exploring intersectionality within LGBTQ+ community

This episode traces how a professor of Law, Kimberle Cranshaw introduced the term intersectionality, first to strengthen the arguments in feminist theory and, following that, how it was deployed in legal processes and expanded into other antidiscriminatory practices. The episode also addresses other relevant issues, such as identity and discrimination against homophobia, racism, xenophobia, and…

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Talking about trans feminities’ experiences – Ifigeneia’s narrative

This episode tells a story also by using the format of the dialogue. The story is based on personal experiences of discrimination against a transgender person, whose narrative we follow. And, again, although personal, and in the Greek context, this story is deeply relevant politically. Authors of the dialogues in all episodes are members of…

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The unforgettable! Covid-19 Pandemic and the rainbow mask!

The team from Colour Youth has offered beyond any obligations to present the IDEAS program with a special podcast that addresses the problems arising from the Covid 19 Pandemic. This episode offers insights into peoples’ lives during Covid 19 Pandemic and sheds light on many different faces/facets at the intersection of Covid and LGBTQ experiences….

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Talking about trans feminities’ experiences – Ifigeneia’s narrative

This episode tells a story also by using the format of the dialogue. The story is based on personal experiences of discrimination against a transgender person, whose narrative we follow. And, again, although personal, and in the Greek context, this story is deeply relevant politically. Authors of the dialogues in all episodes are members of…

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