Portrait schwarz weiß: Frau mit langen Haaren, vor einfarbigem Hintergrund.

Jana Sosnová, M.A.

Researcher

jana.sosnova@ leibniz-gwzo.de

ORCID Knowledge and Participation

About

Jana Sosnová completed her master’s degree in Sociology in 2019 at Masaryk University, Czechia. Her thesis received the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA) Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in 2019. In the academic year 2017-2018, she attended the University of Essex, United Kingdom, as an Erasmus+ exchange student. Before that, in 2016, she earned a bachelor’s degree in media studies and social anthropology.
Since October 2025, Jana has been a doctoral candidate at the GWZO, and a member of the department »Knowledge and Participation« based in Prague.
Work focus
- Epistemic hierarchies and (in)justice
- Feminist movements in Central and Eastern Europe
- Decolonisation and postcoloniality in Central and Eastern Europe
- Participatory and collective knowledges
Awards

2019 Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA) Award for the Best Master Thesis.

Decolonising Czech Feminisms

Marginalised knowledge

(Wissen und Partizipation)

Jana Sosnová

While forms of feminist knowledge and ways of knowing have been othered and devalued by the patriarchy, hierarchies of knowledge tend to emerge within the movement itself. This research aims to investigate these hierarchies from a decolonial perspective and find collective ways to address them.