Assoc. Prof. Rasa BALOČKAITĖ (PhD)

Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Social and Political Theory, Faculty of Political Science and Dilpomacy

Phone: +370 37 206706
E-mail: r.balockaite@pmdf.vdu.lt

Research interests: class, gender and race, colonial and postcolonial theory, postmodern social theory, soviet studies, transition and post communist studies, mass media, popular consciousness and popular culture, critical theory, cultural studies, discourse analysis.

Courses taught: "Classical sociological theories", "Postmodern sociological theories", "Introduction to sociology", "Mass media and public communication theories", "Social stratification", "Media research methods", "Social and political criticism of XX century", "(Post)colonialities in Central and Eastern Europe", "Philosophy of social research".

Membership & other professional activities: member of the New Left-95 group; also a regular contributing author of social critiques in the most popular Lithuanian internet news portal "Delfi.lt"; has made many contributions of social and political criticism to other cultural media, such as “Šiaures Atenai,” “Akiraciai” and “Kulturos barai”.

Publications (2005-2010):

Baločkaitė R. (2010). Post-Soviet Transitions of the Planned Socialist Towns: Visaginas, Lithuania. Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol. 2 (2), pp. 63-81.
Baločkaitė, R. (2009). "Go West...". Myths of femininity and feminist utopias in East and West. Eurozine.
Baločkaitė, R. (2008). Between mimesis and non−existence Lithuania in Europe, Europe in Lithuania. Eurozine.
Baločkaitė R. (2009) Can You Hear Us? The Lower Class in Lithuanian Media and Politics (Ar mus kas nors girdi? Žemesnioji klasė Lietuvos žiniasklaidoje bei politikoje). Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 56, no. 1, January/February.
Baločkaitė R. (2007) Lithuania into Europe: Masquerading Europeaness (Lietuva Europoje: maskaradinis europietiškumas) // Acta Humanitarcia Universitatis Saulensis. Mokslo darbai. T.2 (2006). “Europos studijos: tarp globalizacijos ir regionalizmo”. Šiauliai.
Baločkaitė R. (2006) Rethinking Eliade: Archetypal Consciousness and Its Manifestations in Lithuanian Politics (permąstant M.Eliade: archetipinė sąmonė ir jos raiška Lietuvos politiniame diskurse) // Symposia: Journal for Studies in Ethnology and Anthropology, Romania.
Baločkaitė R. (2005) Postmodernioji galios epistema ir jos raiška Lietuvos viešajame diskurse // Sociologija: Mintis ir veiksmas, Nr. 1. - Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universitetas.
Baločkaitė R. (2007) Utopija, nuo kurios norisi bėgti: kultūros krizės teorijos bei jų refleksijos J.Ivanauskaitės romane Placebas // Darbai ir dienos. Kaunas, VDU. Nr. 1.