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Re-Thinking “Europe” with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies (2025)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2025). Re-Thinking “Europe” with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies. In Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “the West” in the History of Education ( 181-203). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111408989-011

A simple question: What is Europe? is often focal for numerous disciplines such as area studies, cultural geography, history, postcolonial studies, and recently also gender & sexuality studies. Although richly diverse, perhaps one common thread among... Read More about Re-Thinking “Europe” with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies.

Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation (2024)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2024). Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation. In N. Gill, & N. Sartorius (Eds.), Mental Health and Human Rights: The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (153-165). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52179-9_11

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) challenges the foundations of mental health legislation. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated that non-consensual psychiatric measures reinforce inequalit... Read More about Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation.

Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border (2023)
Book Chapter
Paynter, E., & Soliman, F. (2023). Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border. In A. Vila-Freyer, & I. Sirkeci (Eds.), Global Atlas of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (161-176). Transnational Press London

This chapter focuses on how Italy’s position as a key port of entry for migrants reaching Europe has influenced shifts in trends and policy, including external border governance, as well as asylum protocols and reception and detention policies. We si... Read More about Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border.

People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond (2023)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023). People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond. In B. D. Kelly, & M. Donnelly (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law (166-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226413

‘Learning disability’ is currently included in the statutory definition of ‘mental disorder’ used by Scottish capacity and mental health legislation, along with mental illness and personality disorder. This raises the general Convention on the Rights... Read More about People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond.

Mental Capacity Regimes Approach to Values and Participation in Proceedings Involving Individuals With Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Scotland (2023)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023). Mental Capacity Regimes Approach to Values and Participation in Proceedings Involving Individuals With Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Scotland. In C. Kong, J. Coggon, P. Cooper, M. Dunn, & A. Ruck Keene (Eds.), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective. Bristol University Press

Chapter in 'Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective' edited by Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene

The Epic Spartacus (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. The Epic Spartacus. In Kubrick Encounters Spartacus. Liverpool University Press

Epic stories portray influential characters acting under extraordinary circumstances. As we can see it happens to Spartacus in this movie, the main character is forced to act in a way they never would have imagined a moment before the incident starts... Read More about The Epic Spartacus.

Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism (2022)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2022). Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism. In M. Blidon, & S. D. Brunn (Eds.), Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. A Changing World (279-291). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_17

This chapter explores the emerging, post-1989 logics of neoliberalisation of gender and sexuality activism in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). By looking at a case study from the early 2000s LG(BT) activism in Poland (the impactful “Niech Nas Zobaczą” /... Read More about Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism.

Antisemitism and Homophobia in Polish Liberal Discourses: The Cultural Logic of Comparison and a Proposal for Intersectionality (2020)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2020). Antisemitism and Homophobia in Polish Liberal Discourses: The Cultural Logic of Comparison and a Proposal for Intersectionality. In M. Derks, & M. van den Berg (Eds.), Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond (147-169). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56326-4_7

This chapter examines the discursive mechanism of drawing comparisons between antisemitism and homophobia in Polish (Catholic) culture that were popular among the left and liberal opinion makers in the mid/late 2000s. It questions the problematic nat... Read More about Antisemitism and Homophobia in Polish Liberal Discourses: The Cultural Logic of Comparison and a Proposal for Intersectionality.

Mental Health Law in a Global Context (2017)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2017). Mental Health Law in a Global Context. In The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health (329-349). Palgrave Macmillan

No abstract available.

Getting the balance right: human rights in residual jurisdiction rules of English courts for cross-border torts via social media (2017)
Book Chapter
Gillies, L. E. (2017). Getting the balance right: human rights in residual jurisdiction rules of English courts for cross-border torts via social media. In D. Mangan, & L. E. Gillies (Eds.), The Legal Challenges of Social Media (249-269). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364518.00027

This chapter elects as its focus the need to balance human rights in English residual jurisdiction rules for cross-border torts via social media. Private international law applies a pluralist, pragmatic approach in supporting both the rights and inte... Read More about Getting the balance right: human rights in residual jurisdiction rules of English courts for cross-border torts via social media.

Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R., & Silva, J. M. (2016). Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction. In G. Brown, & K. Browne (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (139-142). Routledge

Fundamental rights and judicial cooperation in the decisions of the Court of Justice on the Brussels I Regulation 2009-2014: the story so far (2015)
Book Chapter
Gillies, L. (2015). Fundamental rights and judicial cooperation in the decisions of the Court of Justice on the Brussels I Regulation 2009-2014: the story so far. In S. Morano-Foadi, & L. Vickers (Eds.), Fundamental Rights in the EU: A Matter for Two Courts (211-229). Hart

“…as from the date of entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, 1 December 2009, the fundamental principles of EU law and the EU system of judicial protection such as primacy, direct application, direct effect and interpretation in conformity, have b... Read More about Fundamental rights and judicial cooperation in the decisions of the Court of Justice on the Brussels I Regulation 2009-2014: the story so far.

Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction (2014)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2014). Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction. In M. Elm, K. Kabalek, & J. B. Köhne (Eds.), The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema: Violence Void Visualization (125-144). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

In this essay two different poetic movies (Ivan's Childhood, Tarkovsky; Shutter Island, Scorsese) will be discussed, each focussing on traumatized heroes. The protagonist of both epic stories are archaic figures represented as individual characters.... Read More about Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction.

(Un)translatable queer? Or what is lost and can be found in translation... (2012)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R., Mizielińska, J., & Stasinska, A. (2012). (Un)translatable queer? Or what is lost and can be found in translation... In S. Mesquita, M. K. Wiedlack, & K. Lasthofer (Eds.), Import - Export - Transport. Queer Theory, Queer Critique, and Activism in Motion (115-145). Zaglossus

Perhaps some of the most interesting recent developments in queer studies are those books criticizing the US American bias within the discipline (e.g., Hemmings 2007; Mizielinska 2010; Downing and Gillett 2011), and a move towards embracing “non-West... Read More about (Un)translatable queer? Or what is lost and can be found in translation....

LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach (2010)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2011). LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach. In J. T. Ishiyama, & M. Breuning (Eds.), 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook (856-864). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412979351.n99

The primary focus of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the contemporary debates surrounding LGBT issues in U.S. politics. It is done by looking at LGBT movements and major issues raised by those communities. First, a historical context is of... Read More about LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach.

Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt (2008)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2008). Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt. In J. C. Hawley (Ed.), LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopaedia. Greenwood Press