ERC Abortion Figurations Project
@abortionfiguration.bsky.social
Abortion Figurations: Using Human Rights to Change Abortion Law: Engagement Patterns and Argumentation Figures in a Global Human Rights Figuration.
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📆 On this day in history, Mozambique transformed its abortion law.
📎 To learn more, we recommend the following chapter: www.pulp.up.ac.za/.../abortion...
📎 To learn more, we recommend the following chapter: www.pulp.up.ac.za/.../abortion...
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📆 On this day in history, Mozambique transformed its abortion law.
📎 To learn more, we recommend the following chapter: www.pulp.up.ac.za/.../abortion...
📎 To learn more, we recommend the following chapter: www.pulp.up.ac.za/.../abortion...
✨ Article of the Week ✨
How far has Argentina come since legalising abortion in 2021? This article takes stock of the law’s first two years, showing major gains in access across public health facilities while also unpacking persistent challenges.
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How far has Argentina come since legalising abortion in 2021? This article takes stock of the law’s first two years, showing major gains in access across public health facilities while also unpacking persistent challenges.
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Progress in providing legal abortion services after law reform: A quantitative study in three provinces of Argentina
Argentina’s 2021 abortion law grants the right to abortion on-request up to 14 weeks’ gestation, as well as continuing to allow abortion after 14 weeks on specific grounds. The early years after law r...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
✨ Article of the Week ✨
How far has Argentina come since legalising abortion in 2021? This article takes stock of the law’s first two years, showing major gains in access across public health facilities while also unpacking persistent challenges.
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
How far has Argentina come since legalising abortion in 2021? This article takes stock of the law’s first two years, showing major gains in access across public health facilities while also unpacking persistent challenges.
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
On 8 December, our PI, Marta Bucholc, joined the RCSL Workshop on Legal Consciousness and Legal Cultures at the ELTE Faculty of Law. She presented:
“Alienated Human Rights? Abortion, Legal Culture, and Legal Consciousness in Poland, Argentina, Honduras, and Ireland.”
#HumanRights #RCSL #ELTE
“Alienated Human Rights? Abortion, Legal Culture, and Legal Consciousness in Poland, Argentina, Honduras, and Ireland.”
#HumanRights #RCSL #ELTE
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
On 8 December, our PI, Marta Bucholc, joined the RCSL Workshop on Legal Consciousness and Legal Cultures at the ELTE Faculty of Law. She presented:
“Alienated Human Rights? Abortion, Legal Culture, and Legal Consciousness in Poland, Argentina, Honduras, and Ireland.”
#HumanRights #RCSL #ELTE
“Alienated Human Rights? Abortion, Legal Culture, and Legal Consciousness in Poland, Argentina, Honduras, and Ireland.”
#HumanRights #RCSL #ELTE
Paper of the week ⭐️
A thoughtful, challenging read for anyone interested in human rights, gender, disability, or reproductive politics.
📎 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveRights #DisabilityRights
A thoughtful, challenging read for anyone interested in human rights, gender, disability, or reproductive politics.
📎 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveRights #DisabilityRights
Activist allyship, unspoken dilemma: deconstructing the tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice
This article analyses Taiwan’s human rights treaty review process (2009–2022), examining an underexplored dilemma: the presumed tension between reproductive autonomy and disability justice. Since i...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Paper of the week ⭐️
A thoughtful, challenging read for anyone interested in human rights, gender, disability, or reproductive politics.
📎 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveRights #DisabilityRights
A thoughtful, challenging read for anyone interested in human rights, gender, disability, or reproductive politics.
📎 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveRights #DisabilityRights
A new article titled “Polemics on Polish Progressiveness and Patriotism: A Fanonian Reading of National Consciousness” has been published in East European Politics and Societies.
Authored by Iskra de Vries and Marta Gospodarczyk. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Authored by Iskra de Vries and Marta Gospodarczyk. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A new article titled “Polemics on Polish Progressiveness and Patriotism: A Fanonian Reading of National Consciousness” has been published in East European Politics and Societies.
Authored by Iskra de Vries and Marta Gospodarczyk. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Authored by Iskra de Vries and Marta Gospodarczyk. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happy to announce that our new article has been published! This time, Prof. Marta Bucholc and Iskra de Vries take you on a historical exploration of the abortion debate in Poland.
Link: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...
Link: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Happy to announce that our new article has been published! This time, Prof. Marta Bucholc and Iskra de Vries take you on a historical exploration of the abortion debate in Poland.
Link: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...
Link: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...
Excited to be attending (De)Constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms and Practices at the University of Trieste 🇮🇹✨
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Excited to be attending (De)Constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms and Practices at the University of Trieste 🇮🇹✨
🎓 Missed the lecture “Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies”? Good news! The recording is now available online.
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies
Date: Tue, 07.10.2025 18:00
www.iwm.at
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🎓 Missed the lecture “Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies”? Good news! The recording is now available online.
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
This week’s featured article explores the anti-abortion movement in late-communist Poland, tracing how it organized, mobilized, and negotiated with the communist state.
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PaperOfTheWeek #Poland #AbortionPolitics #ReproductivePolitics
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PaperOfTheWeek #Poland #AbortionPolitics #ReproductivePolitics
The anti-abortion movement, Catholic Church, and communist state: Poland in the 1970s and 1980s
This paper studies the forms of organization and activism adopted by the anti-abortion movement in late-communist Poland. Examining relations between the communist state as a non-democratic regime ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This week’s featured article explores the anti-abortion movement in late-communist Poland, tracing how it organized, mobilized, and negotiated with the communist state.
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PaperOfTheWeek #Poland #AbortionPolitics #ReproductivePolitics
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#PaperOfTheWeek #Poland #AbortionPolitics #ReproductivePolitics
Curious about our project? Our PI, Prof. Marta Bucholc, has been invited to talk about human rights and abortion. There will be two lectures further deepening our understanding of the topic!
For more info, see
www.iwm.at/event/nation...
romanistyka.wn.uw.edu.pl/index.php/20...
For more info, see
www.iwm.at/event/nation...
romanistyka.wn.uw.edu.pl/index.php/20...
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Curious about our project? Our PI, Prof. Marta Bucholc, has been invited to talk about human rights and abortion. There will be two lectures further deepening our understanding of the topic!
For more info, see
www.iwm.at/event/nation...
romanistyka.wn.uw.edu.pl/index.php/20...
For more info, see
www.iwm.at/event/nation...
romanistyka.wn.uw.edu.pl/index.php/20...
Yet another inspiring event coming up! Tune in for a thought-provoking exchange ☕️
October 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yet another inspiring event coming up! Tune in for a thought-provoking exchange ☕️
Thousands of women and allies across Poland took to the streets dressed in black as part of the “Black Protest”—a mass demonstration against a proposed total ban on abortion. The scale of the protest led lawmakers to ultimately reject the proposed legislation.
#CzarnyProtest #BlackProtest #OnThisDay
#CzarnyProtest #BlackProtest #OnThisDay
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Thousands of women and allies across Poland took to the streets dressed in black as part of the “Black Protest”—a mass demonstration against a proposed total ban on abortion. The scale of the protest led lawmakers to ultimately reject the proposed legislation.
#CzarnyProtest #BlackProtest #OnThisDay
#CzarnyProtest #BlackProtest #OnThisDay
Thank you Ogólnopolski Zjazd Socjologiczny for having us!
We are grateful for the opportunity to share our work, exchange ideas, and connect with so many inspiring colleagues in Białystok. Dziękujemy ✨
We are grateful for the opportunity to share our work, exchange ideas, and connect with so many inspiring colleagues in Białystok. Dziękujemy ✨
September 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thank you Ogólnopolski Zjazd Socjologiczny for having us!
We are grateful for the opportunity to share our work, exchange ideas, and connect with so many inspiring colleagues in Białystok. Dziękujemy ✨
We are grateful for the opportunity to share our work, exchange ideas, and connect with so many inspiring colleagues in Białystok. Dziękujemy ✨
We’re happy to share our new article, just in time for some summer reading: “Towards a common EU-abortion policy? The European Parliament’s resolutions on abortion as a human rights issue” by Lourdes Peroni and Marta Bucholc.
August 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We’re happy to share our new article, just in time for some summer reading: “Towards a common EU-abortion policy? The European Parliament’s resolutions on abortion as a human rights issue” by Lourdes Peroni and Marta Bucholc.
The Abortion Figurations team is happy to wrap up our participation at the ISA Conference (@isa-sociology.org) We had inspiring encounters in Rabat, a city full of history, murals, cats, and the warmest people.
With over 4,000 sociologists from around the world +
With over 4,000 sociologists from around the world +
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Abortion Figurations team is happy to wrap up our participation at the ISA Conference (@isa-sociology.org) We had inspiring encounters in Rabat, a city full of history, murals, cats, and the warmest people.
With over 4,000 sociologists from around the world +
With over 4,000 sociologists from around the world +
The #PaperOfTheWeek for today is "Nationalist Revivals and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies" by our PI Marta Bucholc, which was published in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The #PaperOfTheWeek for today is "Nationalist Revivals and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies" by our PI Marta Bucholc, which was published in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
New book: Dynamics of Gender Relations
Edited by Stefanie Ernst, Valerie Dahl, and our PI Marta Bucholc
What happens when gender is approached not as a fixed category, but as a long-term social process shaped by power balances, interdependence, and emotional regulation?
Edited by Stefanie Ernst, Valerie Dahl, and our PI Marta Bucholc
What happens when gender is approached not as a fixed category, but as a long-term social process shaped by power balances, interdependence, and emotional regulation?
May 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New book: Dynamics of Gender Relations
Edited by Stefanie Ernst, Valerie Dahl, and our PI Marta Bucholc
What happens when gender is approached not as a fixed category, but as a long-term social process shaped by power balances, interdependence, and emotional regulation?
Edited by Stefanie Ernst, Valerie Dahl, and our PI Marta Bucholc
What happens when gender is approached not as a fixed category, but as a long-term social process shaped by power balances, interdependence, and emotional regulation?
That’s a wrap from Oñati! The Abortion Figurations team participated last week in the workshop “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) under the Spectrum of Sex, Gender and Sexuality” at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), which concluded this past Friday.
May 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
That’s a wrap from Oñati! The Abortion Figurations team participated last week in the workshop “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) under the Spectrum of Sex, Gender and Sexuality” at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), which concluded this past Friday.
Next week, the Abortion Figurations team will be participating in the workshop “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) under the Spectrum of Sex, Gender and Sexuality”, taking place on 22–23 May at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati.
May 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Next week, the Abortion Figurations team will be participating in the workshop “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) under the Spectrum of Sex, Gender and Sexuality”, taking place on 22–23 May at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati.
Join us for a seminar with Angela Purulli and Vincenzo Marasco (University of Florence) exploring how Norbert Elias’s concept of social habitus can help make sense of everyday practices related to the climate transition.
May 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Join us for a seminar with Angela Purulli and Vincenzo Marasco (University of Florence) exploring how Norbert Elias’s concept of social habitus can help make sense of everyday practices related to the climate transition.
The Abortion Figurations team is currently in Mozambique conducting fieldwork. We’re deeply grateful to the local researchers and partners who have welcomed us and shared their knowledge.
May 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Abortion Figurations team is currently in Mozambique conducting fieldwork. We’re deeply grateful to the local researchers and partners who have welcomed us and shared their knowledge.
Dzień dobry from finally-spring Warsaw! 🌸☀️
Today’s #PaperOfTheWeek is “Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland” by Katarzyna Zielińska, Irena Borowik, Inga Koralewska, and Marcin Zwierżdżyński, published in Sociology of Religion.
Today’s #PaperOfTheWeek is “Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland” by Katarzyna Zielińska, Irena Borowik, Inga Koralewska, and Marcin Zwierżdżyński, published in Sociology of Religion.
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April 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Dzień dobry from finally-spring Warsaw! 🌸☀️
Today’s #PaperOfTheWeek is “Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland” by Katarzyna Zielińska, Irena Borowik, Inga Koralewska, and Marcin Zwierżdżyński, published in Sociology of Religion.
Today’s #PaperOfTheWeek is “Religion-Related Legitimations in Abortion Policy-Making in Poland” by Katarzyna Zielińska, Irena Borowik, Inga Koralewska, and Marcin Zwierżdżyński, published in Sociology of Religion.
Last week, on April 7, it was Mozambican Women’s Day. At Abortion Figurations, we recognize the importance of this date and follow the country’s context and ongoing debates around abortion rights closely.
April 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Last week, on April 7, it was Mozambican Women’s Day. At Abortion Figurations, we recognize the importance of this date and follow the country’s context and ongoing debates around abortion rights closely.
Seminar: Palenques Veracruzanos: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 16:00 CEST
Online (Zoom): uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 16:00 CEST
Online (Zoom): uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Seminar: Palenques Veracruzanos: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 16:00 CEST
Online (Zoom): uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 16:00 CEST
Online (Zoom): uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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I'm having the best time working with the Abortion Figurations team at University of Warsaw!
We’re happy to welcome Dr Claire Pierson (@clairepierson.bsky.social) as a Visiting Researcher with the Abortion Figurations team in Warsaw 🧵
March 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm having the best time working with the Abortion Figurations team at University of Warsaw!