International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science is an international interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the advancement of basic knowledge in the social and behavioral sciences. It contains articles pertaining to theoretical integration of ideas, epistemology of social and biological sciences, and original empirical research articles of general scientific value.

Rasa Balockaite

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

Associate Professor, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Research Areas

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

Education

1998-2004Postgraduate studentDepartment of Sociology, Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences
1996-1998Master Department of Sociology, Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences
1992-1996BachelorDepartment of Business Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences

Experience

2011Fulbright Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters and Science, Department of Anthropology
2008-presentAssoc.professor, the Department of Social and Political Theory, Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005-2008Lecturer, Research fellow, Kaunas University of Technology, Department of Sociology, Kaunas, Lithuania
2005-2007Lecturer of Sociology, International School of Management, Kaunas, Lithuania

Publications: Journals

[1]  Balockaite R. (2011) Pleasures of the Late Socialism in Soviet Lithuania: Strategies of Resistance and Dissent. Journal of Baltic Studies. Accepted for publishing.
[2]  Balockaite R. (2011) Anti political attitudes in Lithuania: private motherland, talking classes and unbearable burden of the politics. Filosofija, Sociologija. Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 0235-7186. Accepted for publishing. (in Lithuanian)
[3]  Balockaite R. (2011) Coping with the Unwanted Past in the Planned Soviet Towns: Visaginas, Tychy and Nowa Huta. Under review at Slovo, Journal of Slavonic and East European Studies.
[4]  Balockaite R. (2009) Can You Hear Us? The Lower Class in Lithuanian Media and Politics.,/Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 56, no.1, January/February 2009, ISSN 1075-8216. pp.12-22.
[5]  Balockaite, R., Rinkevicius, L. (2009) Nuclear power discourse in Lithuanian mass media and public opinion: attitudinal divergencies and the emerging talking and acting classes in the risk society. (in Lithuanian). Filosofija, Sociologija. Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 0235-7186. T. 20, nr. 4 p. 259-270. (in Lithuanian).
[6]  Balockaite R. (2010) "How to Understand Otherness, when you are the Other one" (Review of "Anglija.Apie tuos zmones ir ju sali"/"England. About these people and their country…" by A.Uzkalnis). IQ Economist, 2010, Nr 10. (in Lithuanian)
[7]  Balockaite R. (2010) "Good Without Passport And The Table For Three In Heaven" (interview with Joostein Gaarder). IQ Economist, 2010, Nr 14. (in Lithuanian)
[8]  Balockaite, R. (2011) "Stories of American Presidents and Their Parties: View from the European side" (Book review: Daniel J. Galvin, 2010. Presidential Party Building. Dwight D.Einsenhower to George W. Bush. Princeton University Press, 338p.) CEU Political Science Journal. Central European University, Hungary. Accepted for publishing.
[9]  Balockaite R. (2010) Post-Soviet Transitions of the Planned Socialist Towns: Visaginas, Lithuania Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS), Talinn, Estonia. Vol. 2. Issue 2. ISSN 1736-874X. P. 63-81.
[10]  Balockaite, R. (2009) "The Games Parties Play: Populism, Postmodernism and Political Promiscuity" (Review of: Bonnie M. Meguid, 2008. "Party Competition between Unequals: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe." Cambridge University Press, 318p.). CEU Political Science Journal. Central European University, Hungary. ISSN 1992-3147. P. 154-157.
[11]  Balockaite, R., Rinkevicius, L. (2008) Turndown of the Soviet Modernity: from Chernobyl and Ignalina to the Greens and Sajūdis,/Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas/Vilniaus universitetas, Klaipedos universitetas. ISSN 1392-3358. 2008, nr. 3. P. 20-40.
[12]  Balockaite, R.; Morkevicius, V.; Vaidelyte, E.; zvaliauskas, G. (2008). The impact of new ICTs on democracy: positive and negative scenarios,/Social Sciences = Socialiniai mokslai/Kaunas University of Technology. ISSN 1392-0758. 2008, nr. 1(59). p. 81-92.
[13]  Balockaite R. (2008) 'Unbroken Chord': Looking into Pandoxa Box by Nerija Putinaite,/Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas/Vilniaus universitetas, Klaipedos universitetas. ISSN 1392-3358. 2008, nr. 1. p. 139-145. (in Lithuanian)
[14]  Balockaite R. (2007) Utopia You Want To Escape From: Theories Of Cultural Crisis And Their Reflections In Placebo By J.Ivanauskaite,/Darbai ir dienos. Kaunas, VDU. Nr. 1. ISSN1392-0588. p.213-233. (in Lithuanian)
[15]  Balockaite R. (2005) Postmodern Episteme of Power and its Representation in the Public Discourse of Lithuania,/Mintis ir Veiksmas, Nr. 1.-Klaipeda: Klaipedos universitetas, ISSN 1392-3358. P. 70-81. (in Lithuanian)
[16]   Balockaite R., Rinkevicius R. (2005) The Impact of Nuclear Risks in Shaping the Soviet Modernity and Governance: the Cases of Nuclear Power Plants in Chernobyl and Ignalina,/Social sciences, Nr 3 (48). Kaunas: Technologija, ISSN 1392-0758, p. 7-18.
[17]  Balockaite R. (2005) Discursive Structures of Power Relations, their Historical Determinism and Development in Lithuania during 1990-2002,/Philosophy. Sociology, No.2.-Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Science, ISSN 0235-7186, p. 7-13. (in Lithuanian)
[18]  Balockaite, R. (2003) Post Soviet Consciousness in Lithuania: Devaluation of Old Paradigms and the Rise of the new ones,/Philosophy. Sociology, No.4. Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, ISSN 0235-7186, p. 33-37. (in Lithuanian)
[19]  Balockaite, R. (2001) Sociological Aspects of Lithuanian Post Communist Culture: Changing Narratives, changing Narrators,/Philosophy. Sociology, No.4.-Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, ISSN 0235-7186, p. 11-17.
[20]  Balockaite, R. (2010) City as communication space: historical memory and ideology in the urban landscape of Vilnius. Kultūros barai. 2010. Nr. 4. ISSN 0134-3106. 13-17. (in Lithuanian)
[21]  Balockaite R. (2010) The Green Revolutions of 1990. In 20. Vyrocie Nezniej Revulucie. Ed Peter Jasek. Ustav pamati naroda, Bratislava. ISBN 978-80-89335-29-9. P. 62-75.
[22]  Balockaite, R. (2010) Four Ways of Experiencing Vilnius (review of "Experiencing Vilnius" by Victor de Munck, Trini de Munck, Rasa Antanaviciūte, Linas Svolkinas). Kultūra ir visuomene. Kaunas, VDU. ISSN 2029-4573. p. 123-124. (in Lithuanian)
[23]  Balockaite R. (2009) Pornification of Politics: Too Much of Publicity?,/Kultūros barai. ISSN 0134-3106. Nr 9. P. 14-19. (in Lithuanian)
[24]  Balockaite R. (2009) "Go West…"-The Myths of Femininity, the Utopias of Feminism between East and West,/Kultūros barai. ISSN 0134-3106. Nr 4. P. 2-7. (in Lithuanian)
[25]  Balockaite R. (2006) Lithuania in Europe, Europe in Lithuania: Between Mimesis and Non Being,/Kultūros barai. Nr. 11. P. 2-6. ISSN 0134-3106. (in Lithuanian)
[26]  Balockaite R. (2006) Beyond the Limits of Representation: the Silent Classes,/Kultūros barai. Nr. 1. P. 2-8. ISSN 0134-3106. (in Lithuanian)
[27]  Balockaite R. (2006) The Myth of Eternal Return of the Governmental Evil,/Kultūros barai. Nr. 12. P. 2-7. ISSN 0134-3106. (in Lithuanian)

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  Balockaite R. (2010) "Visaginas, the Quotation of Modernity". Chapter in "Keys into Lithuanian Towns". UAB Kopa. ISBN 978-609-8043-00-6. p. 86-96. (bilingual, English and Lithuanian)
[2]  Balockaite R. (2009) "The Second History-the Narratives of the Second Sex". Book review: "Domesticated realities: 1945-1970. Biographical interviews of Lithuanian women" by D.Marcinkeviciene, 2007,/siaures Atenai, 2009, 01. (in Lithuanian)
[3]  Co author of "Different City: best essays from journal Miesto IQ/Urban IQ", collection of essays by Lithuanian authors. Versus Aureus, Kaunas, 2010. ISBN 978-609-8043-01-3. p. 375. (in Lithuanian)
[4]  Balockaite R. (2007) Lithuania into Europe: Masquerading Europeaness,/Acta Humanitarcia Universitatis Saulensis. Mokslo darbai. T.2 (2006). Europos studijos: tarp globalizacijos ir regionalizmo". siauliai, 2007. ISSN 1822-7309. P. 11-26. Straipsnis kituose recenzuojamuose leidiniuose
[5]  Balockaite R. (2006) Rethinking Eliade: Archetypal Consciousness and Its Manifestations in Lithuanian Politics,/Symposia: Journal for Studies in Ethnology and Anthropology, Romania. ISSN 1583-7459. P. 11-26. Straipsnis kituose recenzuojamuose leidiniuose
[6]  Novelskaite A., Balockaite R. (2006) Does professional career have a gender? Male and female careers in academy, medicine and politics,/, Women in postmodern society". Selected conference papers. Kaunas University of Technology, 2006, p. 114-130. ISBN 9955-25-141-7. (in Lithuanian)
[7]  Balockaite, R. (2003) Demythologization of the World: European Integration Processes in Lithuania 2003,/A round table for young scientists from CEE "Globalization, Integration and Social Development in European Postcommunist Countries" (University of Lucian Blaga, Sibiu, Romania, 2003). Selected conference papers. Ed. Voicu, B., Rusu, H.–Romania, Psichomedia Publishing Company, ISBN 973-7997-05-0, p.25-37.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Balockaite R. (2010) Internet Commentaries: Semiological Guerilla Warfare. Book Chapter in Alternative Public Spaces in Lithuania. (in Lithuanian) Vilnius, TSPMI. ISBN 978-9955-34-260-1. P. 51-86.
[2]  Balockaite R. (2009) Beyond the Limits of Representation: the Silent Classes,/in Democracy without Labor Movement? (in Lithuanian) Ed. A.Bielskis. Vilnius, Kitos Knygos. ISBN 978-9955-640-86-8. P. 140-160.
[3]  Balockaite R.(2010) (Post) Colonialisms in Central and Eastern Europe/(Post) Kolonializmai Vidurio ir Rytu Europoje. Kaunas, VDU. ISBN 978-9955-12-585-3 ISBN 978-9955-12-361-3. 64p. (in Lithuanian)
[4]  Balockaite, R. Juraite, K. (2008) Social theories and research methods/Socialines teorijos ir tyrimo metodai.,/VDU, Kaunas. ISBN 978-9955-12-361-3. 83p. (in Lithuanian)