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From the Archive: Valerie Walkerdine, 'Communal Beingness and Affect: An Exploration of Trauma in an Ex-industrial Community' - explores the place of affect in community relations with respect to trauma following the closure of a steelworks. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"Everyday politics is a way of really grounding the term by interacting, listening, talking to people; you tease out what the content of everyday life is, that is still political."
transcript of an interview I did for the podcast The Eurasian Knot. postsocialism.org/2026/04/08/w...
🌟 The previous episode explains what orders of power are and how they frame everyday struggles 👉🏽 youtu.be/DDf3F9hnGMk
🌟 In the final episode of Key Concepts, I unpack everyday struggle, a concept that I develop in ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. What is everyday struggle, and why does it matter for understanding social life beyond open resistance? Check out in the episode 👉🏽 youtu.be/ae1lbQfom5I
Online event poster for 'Displaced Ecologies' on March 25, 4-5:30pm, featuring Alice Mah and Darya Tsymbalyuk in a Bauman Memorial Conversations series.
Join the Conversation 💡
The Bauman Institute is pleased to invite you to Displaced Ecologies - the opening event in the Bauman Memorial Conversations Series: Thinking Displacement.
Wednesday 25th March
4:00pm-5:30pm
Via Zoom (online only)
Sign up: https://ow.ly/axG250YvgfO
Happy to announce the publication of The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories, which is a collective outcome of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Huge thanks to Stefan Berger and all 26 contributors. It was a beautiful process of collaborative research and writing.
🌟 The previous episode discusses the concept of senses. Welcome to watch it and comment on what you think about whether senses and imaginaries contribute to the creation of everyday worlds! 👉🏽 youtu.be/-6KmVdzrATI?...
🌟 A new episode of the Key Concepts series is now live! In this episode, I explore my favourite concept, the imaginary, and explain how it has been developed across the social sciences 👉🏽 m.youtube.com/watch?v=vndj...
Watch the introduction to the Key Concepts series based on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ here 👉🏽 m.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSz...
🌟 Episode 1 of the Key Concepts series, based on my book, is now out. It discusses what structure of feeling is. Welcome to watch it if interested 👉🏽 youtu.be/CnDs8V-8qzA
Welcome to join the DéPOT workshop of the Deindustrialization and the Environment theme, dedicated to Gentrification and Greening
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DuBois's concept of double consciousness remains vital for understanding how marginalized students navigate academic spaces today. His legacy shows how sociological insight can emerge from - and speak to - experiences of exclusion and resistance. #AcademicSky #sociology
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Borushkina, S. (2026). The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia. Engaging in Everyday Struggle: Alexandrina Vanke, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024 Europe-Asia Studies, 78(1), 139–140.
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🎉 New fascinating book review of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia' by Sofia Borushkina has been published in the new issue of Europe-Asia Studies journal. It’s so fulfilling to see the reviewer's immersive engagement with my book 👉🏽https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2589612
BSA journals SRO and Cultural Sociology are now accepting Editorial Board applications!
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ROUNDTABLE - February 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment roundtable to discuss ongoing research!
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In the new blogpost, I give my response to the two recent reviews of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ and reflect on on the relevance of everyday struggle for the current debates on the agency of the subordinate. The book is now out in paperback! alexandrinavanke.com/2026/02/02/n...
"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.
ht: Dagmar Monett
Thank you, Marie!
You can also sign up for our March 12th virtual round-table on "Political Abandonment, Silencing and Absence in Deindustrialization." Papers focus on Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe and North America.
North America-based customers should use JAN40 code at the checkout 👉🏽 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/
Good news 🎉 ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ will be out in paperback on January 20 making the book more affordable. @manchesterup.bsky.social is now offering 40% off all titles, including pre-orders, with the code JAN40 👉🏽manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195746/
Journal Article of the Year 2024 Highly Commended “Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods” Alexandrina Vanke “Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?” Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett and Janet Holland The Sociological Review
🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
The front cover of the journal INTER, issue 4’2025. There are five reindeers in the harness and a woman in the sleigh driving the reindeers. The background is snowy and sunny. This the pic was made in the Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia depicting indigenous people. Author of the photo: Grigorii Pisotsckii.
Delighted to share 4’2025 issue of journal INTER, which I edited. It covers the current debates on ethnographic methods, grassroots eco-mobilisation after the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea, and green professions in Russia. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/in...