Artūras Tereškinas

Vytautas Magnus University · Department of Sociology

In the last decades, the Baltic states, encompassing Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, have undergone profound sociohistorical changes, with notable transformations in gender equality and religious life. Independence from the Soviet Union in 1990/1991 was a turning point that paved the way for profound changes on the political, economic, and social f...

This book presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives. It encompasses various conceptual discussions and international regulations and trends, while concurrently emphasising the legal regulations and practices of select Central and Eastern European countries...

This book presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives. It encompasses various conceptual discussions and international regulations and trends, while concurrently emphasising the legal regulations and practices of select Central and Eastern European countries...

This paper discusses the results of the international applied research project ‘UniDiversity – Universities Towards Diversity’ that examined what discriminatory attitudes, beliefs and behaviours based on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics (SOGISC) exist in the Lithuanian, Greek and Italian academic environment. Specifically...

This article focuses on the structure of female and male crimes and gender disparities in sentencing in Lithuania, which present a significant gap in criminological research. Using Lithuanian court decisions on five types of offenses—murder, grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm, drug distribution, and theft—we attempt to answer whether women ar...

The article examines Lithuanian middle-class fathers’ uses of emotional capital to learn which patterns of emotional engagement with children they employ in their fathering. Emotional capital is defined, in the article, as a type of interpersonal resource that consists of emotion-based knowledge and emotion-management abilities that can lead to soc...

This article is based on a qualitative study of middle-class Lithuanian women and men’s experiences of precarity related to time deficit. Drawing on the theoretical framework of time as an indicator of precarity, we analyze 39 biographical interviews with middle-class in- individuals of the specific birth cohort of 1970-1985. Three aspects of their...

This compendium presents national reports about the contexts, current developments, and policy actions in the area of child and family support in 27 countries across Europe. The collection throws light on the conceptualisation and delivery of Family Support in Europe, which is one of the main areas of interest within the European Family Support Net...

Using the concept of ‘pains of punishment’, the article analyses the experiences of Lithuanian women serving community sentences. Our study demonstrates that women experience the universal pains of punishment associated with stigmatisation, shame, and the inconveniences caused by punishment, as well as constraints and anxieties about impending impr...

This compendium presents national reports about the contexts, current developments, and policy actions in the area of child and family support in 27 countries across vEurope. The collection throws light on the conceptualisation and delivery Family Support in Europe, which is one of therein areas of interest with the European Family Support Network...

How do we share ugly feelings - shame, despair, sadness, melancholy, anger, rage, hatred - in public? How do they creep into our skin and how do we deal with them? What does it mean to experience different feelings in the hope that the noise they make will help us to hear our lives? This book by sociologist Artūras Tereškinas and artist Adomas Danu...

The book conceptualises gender-differentiated trends and practices of criminal behaviour and punishment. It examines the general features of punishment and the peculiarities and experiences of imprisoned women and women serving community sentences in Lithuania. We follow the assumption that when analysing women’s criminal behaviour and their person...

The article discusses the results of the quantitative survey of Lithuanian probation of­ficers. We attempt to answer the question of what roles officers choose in their pro­fessional service. Taking into account the specificity of probation officers’ duties and internationally accepted classifications, we use, in the article, the categories of the...

The article discusses the results of the quantitative survey of Lithuanian probation officers. We attempt to answer the question of what roles officers choose in their professional service. Taking into account the specificity of probation officers’ duties and internationally accepted classifications, we use, in the article, the categories of the pr...

Using the cross-sectional Fathering after Union Dissolution in Lithuania survey data (2016), this chapter analyzes the quality of non-resident father-child relationships after a parental union dissolution. We assess the relationship quality perceived by fathers and focus on both positive elements such as intimacy and approval and negative ones such...

While sexual and gender self-determination became an inseparable part of the official state policies in the Western world, the opposite process of the retradicionalization of gender and sexual norms occurred in Lithuania during the last decade. It is comprised of an ineffective partnership law for either heterosexual or same-sex couples, the enactm...

The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic dif- ferences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural re- sources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infras...

Most recent works on incarcerated men have focused on prisoners’ relationship to their children and family, incarcerated fatherhood and the influence of visitation to inmates’ behaviour. The negative impact of imprisonment on family relations has also been extensively studied. Yet the intersections between imprisoned men’s attitudes towards masculi...

Using a wide array of theoretical and empirical studies and a national public opinion survey of Lithuanians (N=1031) of the reproductive age (18-45 y. o.) conducted in 2010-2011, within the framework of the project "Gender Inequality, Public Policy and the Future of Fertility in Lithuania," the article examines the issue of work-life reconciliation...

The article analyzes postsocialist toxic masculinities as an ensemble of discourses, rules, and practices characterized by excess and banality. Focusing on male politicians, it argues that moderation, restraint and sobriety are foreign to their brand of toxic masculinity. Fraught with fear and anxiety, Lithuanian politicians attempt to resolve thei...

Unemployed, homeless and imprisoned men analysed in this study live their lives not only at risk of social exclusion but also in an impasse at the level of the imaginary: remaining attached to the normative fantasy of good life, they are also not sure about the ways of changing their situation, living different lives and choosing worthwhile ones. W...

Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers’ role consists primarily...

In her book on Oprah Winfrey, the sociologist Eva Illouz looks into the mechanisms that convert personal failure into success. She argues that American culture “has a cultural mechanism to transform failure into a positive experience”. The example of Oprah Winfrey, who skilfully exploited the cultural phenomenon of the “therapeutic biography” point...

Drawing on the population survey of social exclusion in Lithuanian cities, the article examines how residents’ distrust of their power to change neighborhoods and influence local authority decisions reflects more general processes of sociospatial segregation and differentiation. We argue that this distrust is spatially driven, although there is a l...

Sexual ethnography is how Artūras Tereškinas calls his research of homoerotic performances collected in the novel Endless Summer. The accurately documented catalogue of erotic experiences functions as an auto-therapy and pleasure of the text. Tereškinas is a director, cameraman and main character in this sex series although at the beginning of his...

Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father–child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers’...

As in other post-Soviet countries, carceral collectivism characterizes penal institutions in Lithuania. In these institutions, prisoners’ interactions are minimally controlled and convicts are responsible for the maintenance of order; hence, the informal rules of the criminal subculture prevail in Lithuanian correctional facilities. In this article...

Divorced Men and Models of Postdivorce Fatherhood Summary Analyzing 25 biographical interviews with divorced men of different class, education, professional involvement, living in three biggest Lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the article distinguishes three broad types that reflect father’s identities and their different strategie...

Using semi-structured interviews with young unemployed Lithuanian men, this article examines three distinct male working identities associated with ways of coping with unemployment and a sense of precarity: “desperate conformists,” “liberated dreamers,” and men “lost in work transition.” The interviews demonstrate that unemployment stigmatizes men,...

This monograph focusing on groups at risk of social exclusion reflects current issues in the contemporary Lithuanian welfare system in which the dilemmas of neoliberalism, social justice and egalitarianism as well as the constant search for a better life are all intertwined. Difficult life stories of the members of these groups allow us to take a c...

Analyzing 30 semi-structured interviews with 19–34-year-old Lithuanian men, the article focuses on the interconnection of these men’s scripts of masculinity, good life and familial intentions. Despite differences in class, education, sexual orientation, age and physical ability, most men adhered to the traditional masculinity script based on very n...

Straipsnyje analizuojamas kultūrinis vartojimas ir jo ypatumai skirtinguose Vilniaus, Kauno ir Klaipėdos gyvenamuosiuose rajonuose. Laikant kultūrinį vartojimą socialinių skirtumų ir socioerdvinių pasidalijimų žymeniu, mėginama išsiaiškinti santykį tarp kultūrinio vartojimo ir jį lemiančių veiksnių. Straipsnyje remiamasi Pierre’o Bourdieu kultūrini...

􏰞􏰁􏰐􏰗􏰂􏰘􏰊􏰃􏰊􏰚􏰌􏰑 􏰒􏰞􏰊􏰐􏰓􏰉􏰇􏰗􏰖􏰟􏰃􏰊􏰚􏰊􏰖􏰃 The article focuses on the relationship between young unemployed men’s social exclu- sion, recognition and gender normativity. It argues that the desire for recognition is crucial in self-construction of male subjects. In order to become “real” men, they must be recognized as effective and viable subjects defined by th...

Analyzing 18 semi-structured interviews with 23–39-year-old unemployed men, the article focuses on the relation between social exclusion and quality of life or “good life.” It attempts to answer the question to what degree these men’s conceptualizations of “good life” and their unemployment status are a symptom of social exclusion that, in this art...

The article focuses on cultural consumption and socio-spatial differentiation in different neighbourhoods of Vilnius, Kaunas, and Klaipeda. The data of the research project "Social Exclusion in Lithuanian Cities: Forms of Spatial Segregation and Polarization" (2012) demonstrate that the factors of sex, education, marrital status and ethnic origin i...

A great number of men affected by rapid social, economic and political developments suffer severe marginalization due to their age, class, sexuality, disability and ethnicity in Lithuania. This paper examines the intersection of social marginalization, sexuality and masculinity. Using a Lithu-anian male sex worker's case, it argues that a dysfuncti...

The article focuses on the issues of masculinity, male body, power and trauma in the feature film "Zero: Lilac Lithuania" (directed by Emilis Velyvis, 2006, Lithuania). The film exemplifies the growing trend in post-Soviet film-making not only in Lithuania, but also in a wider post-Soviet space (most notably in Russian films). Violence, torture, mu...

Analyzing the data of two representative surveys of the Lithuanian population conducted in 2006, 12 semi-structured interviews with heterosexual couples and 15 semi-structured interviews with men on paternity leave, the article attempts to answer to what degree women and men’s attitudes to the egalitarian family differ and how both sexes conceptual...

Straipsnyje analizuojamas sunkų fizinį darbą dirbančių vyrų socialinis kentėjimas ir aptariami procesai, lemiantys jų socialinę atskirtį ir nelygybės patirtis. Darbe naudojamasi sociologijoje ir antropologijoje vis plačiau įsigalinčia socialinio kentėjimo sąvoka. Šia sąvoka siekiama atskleisti kasdienes socialiai marginaliuotų asmenų bėdas ir vargu...

The article examines the semantic macrostructures of the discourse on immigration in the press of Ireland and the United States of America. It discusses the dominant topics related to immigrants, including immigrants as an enemy and the frightening Other, as a social problem and risk factor, as socially excluded and deviant, and as a threat to the...

Straipsnyje, remiantis 32 interviu su homoseksualiais asmenimis, analizuojamos jų atsivėrimo strategijos viešumo ir privatumo sankirtoje. Mėginama atsakyti, kaip Lietuvos gėjai ir lesbietės konstruoja savo tapatybes viešose ir privačiose erdvėse bei kokias įtampas jie jaučia tapdami „viešais“ homoseksualais. Straipsnis remiasi prielaida, kad seksua...

Šiame straipsnyje analizuojama Europos Sąjungos ir Lietuvos žiniasklaidos politika siekiant suvokti, kiek lyties ir konkrečiai moterų problematika atsispindi žiniasklaidą reglamentuojančiuose ir reguliuojančiuose dokumentuose. Tačiau straipsnio tikslas – ne tik atverti, kad lyčių problemos yra neatskiriamai susijusios su žiniasklaida, bet ir parody...

Iki šiol Lietuvoje ne itin daug dėmesio skirta vyrų ir vyriškumo problemų analizei. Lietuvoje vyrai retai minimi lyčių politikos dokumentuose. Dar mažiau analizuotos marginalinės vyriškumo formos, tokios kaip homoseksualus vyriškumas. Tačiau kalbant apie moterų problematiką, būtina kreipti dėmesį ir į vyriškumą bei maskulinizmo politiką, nes rūpest...

Straipsnyje analizuojami seksualinių mažumų vaizdiniai Lietuvos spaudoje 2000 sausį - 2001 birželio laikotarpiu. Teigdamas, kad žiniasklaidos vaidmuo vaizduojant seksualines mažumas yra itin svarbus, autorius mėgina atsakyti į klausimą, ar Lietuvos spauda paverčia homoseksualumo ir homoseksualių žmonių problemas rimtos viešos diskusijos ir viešo di...

Šiame straipsnyje analizuojamos idealaus tautiškumo sampratų, žiniasklaidos, pop kultūros bei kasdienybės sankirtos nūdienėje Lietuvoje. Žvelgiama į tai, kaip žiniasklaidos priemonės, kurdamos anoniminių lygiateisių subjektų lygą, padeda Lietuvos žmonėms galvoti ar negalvoti apie bendruomenę ir tautą. Klausiama apie tai, kokiais būdais įveiksminamo...

This article focuses on Lithuanian working-class men's social suffering. Analyzing 19 semi-structured interviews with working class men, it asks how these men attempt to create their personal and group identities and why some of them are unable to construct satisfactory life narratives. The research methods used in the article include the analysis...