Outputs (35)

Engaging Parents with Sex and Relationship Education: A UK Primary School Case Study (2016)
Journal Article
Alldred, P., Fox, N., & Kulpa, R. (2016). Engaging Parents with Sex and Relationship Education: A UK Primary School Case Study. Health Education Journal, 75(7), 855-868. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916634114

Objective: To assess an intervention to familiarise parents with children’s books for use in primary (5–11 years) sex and relationship education (SRE) classes. Method: Case study of a 7-week programme in one London primary school, using ethnographic... Read More about Engaging Parents with Sex and Relationship Education: A UK Primary School Case Study.

On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President? (2014)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2014). On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?. Sexualities, 17(7), 781-801. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714531431

In this article I ask why gay and lesbian people in Poland mourned their infamously homophobic president Lech Kaczynski, and, in turn, what it means to mourn one's own enemy. In examining this extraordinary case of national bereavement and the collec... Read More about On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?.

Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest (2014)
Other
Kulpa, R. (2014). Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest. https://eurovisionproject.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/sexual-politics-and-the-eurovision-song-contest/

In this post I would like to draw readers’ attention to the issue of how Eurovision is entangled with sexual politics in the new EUrope: how it sometimes is used as the marker of gay rights and freedoms vs. homophobia, as a rainbow-coloured symbol of... Read More about Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Western Leveraged Pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of Homophobia, Tolerance, and Nationhood (2013)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2014). Western Leveraged Pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of Homophobia, Tolerance, and Nationhood. Gender, Place and Culture, 21(4), 431-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.793656

This article focuses on the relations between the two geo-temporal categories – Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and West/Europe – in discussions about sexual politics, homophobia, tolerance, and nationhood. It contributes to the existing literature... Read More about Western Leveraged Pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of Homophobia, Tolerance, and Nationhood.

Nation Queer? Discourses of Nationhood And Homosexuality In Times of Transformation: Case Studies From Poland (2013)
Thesis
Kulpa, R. (2012). Nation Queer? Discourses of Nationhood And Homosexuality In Times of Transformation: Case Studies From Poland. (Thesis). Birkbeck College, University of London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2713774

This thesis explores the relationship between discourses of nationhood and homosexuality in the context of Polish “post-communist transformations” that have taken place over the last decade. It begins with the hypothesis that there must be a more com... Read More about Nation Queer? Discourses of Nationhood And Homosexuality In Times of Transformation: Case Studies From Poland.

Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate) (2013)
Journal Article
Mizielińska, J., & Kulpa, R. (2013). Debating Sexual Politics in the Central-Eastern Europe. A Response to Takács and Pichardo Galán’s Comments on De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate). Southeastern Europe, 37(1), 102-110. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763332-03701007

(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....

Central and Eastern European Sexualities ‘in Transition’. Reflections on Queer Studies, Academic Hegemonies, and Critical Epistemologies (2012)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R., & Mizielińska, J. (2012). Central and Eastern European Sexualities ‘in Transition’. Reflections on Queer Studies, Academic Hegemonies, and Critical Epistemologies. lambda nordica, 17(4), 19-29

De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives (2011)
Book
Kulpa, R., & Mizielińska, J. (Eds.). (2011). De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576107

De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusing on gender and sexuality within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Providing rich case studies... Read More about De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives.

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.

Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays (2010)
Newspaper / Magazine
Kulpa, R. (2010). Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/is-the-rectum-a-grave-and-other-essays/411886.article

Abstract not available.

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. Westport: Greenwood Press

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland. Presented at Public Lectures of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

On the 08 May 2024, Dr Kulpa presented a Commentary: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antira... Read More about Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland.

RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2023, September). RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems. Presented at Contesting 21st Century B/Orders, Frankfurt

In this presentation Roberto and the RESIST project team will reflect on the meanders of the contemporary higher education and research sectors across Europe from the perspectives of queer-feminist researchers located in diverse geopolitical contexts... Read More about RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems.