Joseph Grim Feinberg

Joseph Grim Feinberg is a cultural anthropologist and social theorist at the Philosophy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Sociology Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has written on the concept of civil society, the politics of culture, and the future of the left.

Central and Eastern Europe

Goodbye, Internationalism! On the Anti-Multicultural Left in East-Central Europe

In countering Western imperialism and global capitalism, the left in Central Europe is turning to the nation.

Joseph Grim FeinbergJune 8, 2017, 8:07 amJune 8, 2017

USA

Donald Trump, Jester, King, and President

When did we start taking Donald Trump seriously?

Joseph Grim FeinbergNovember 9, 2016, 7:30 amNovember 9, 2016

USA

Donald Trump, Jester and King

Donald Trump has succeeded in blending politics and entertainment, but has this cost him his Presidential campaign?

Joseph Grim FeinbergAugust 22, 2016, 7:56 amAugust 22, 2016

Central and Eastern Europe, Long reads

Feinberg: An Austere Place of Refuge

Probably for the first time since the end of World War II, it is not only rebellious youth, hasty social critics, and war correspondents in the eastern and southeastern reaches of the continent who speak of the return of fascism.

Joseph Grim FeinbergFebruary 26, 2016, 9:51 amMarch 7, 2016

Life in Skoda’s Factory Town

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Czechia loses a voice, a university tries to lose its voice, and the PM voices a complaint

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Moving a statue the Czech way

The Future of European Gender Politics

Orbán sides with Erdoğan against the thousands of Hungarians protesting in solidarity with Rojava

Behind Viktor Orbán’s Surprise Defeat

Doomed to Failure: Orban’s neoconservative family policies in Hungary

Pockets of resistance in Orbán’s Hungary

Poland’s Changing Climate Activists

Under Attack: Reproductive Rights in Poland

Hope and Fear in LGBT Poland

Political Cynicism: The Case of Poland

Poland’s Future: A view from the countryside

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Slovakia: Restricted cinema in the era of economic transformation

The White Dream of Marian Kotleba

Where are you going, Slovakia?

BLACK CLOUD – KYIV BIENNIAL 2019

What Europe Does Ukraine need?

Different languages and symbols but still our common fight

A New Lexicon for a New International

Against National Vigilante

Goodbye, Internationalism! On the Anti-Multicultural Left in East-Central Europe

Donald Trump, Jester, King, and President

Donald Trump, Jester and King

Feinberg: An Austere Place of Refuge