sociological research and social critique
Labelled / Размещено в: english, дискуссии, исследования on 21 Apr, 2024
Technological complexity and dangerous ambiguity of the Russian political regime, evolving from the early 2000s, is explored in two English-speaking discussions in Berlin.
April 23, Discussion of the book Flexible Authoritarianism by Anna Schwenck.
April 25, New Russian Mercantilism: the Path of War, presentation by Alexander Bikbov.
Labelled / Размещено в: english, дискуссии, инициативы on 14 Feb, 2024
Everyday Life, Planned Consumption and Leisure in the Late Soviet Union
hosted by Alexander Bikbov, DAAD visiting professor at Lotman Institute RUB.
The seminar features leading historians of the late Soviet period to present in distance sessions their groundbreaking research and personal testimony of the phenomena of Soviet population management, production and consumption, urban life and collective sensibilities.
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Labelled / Размещено в: english, практические вопросы on 21 Oct, 2023
Three courses that I am giving at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the fall 2023 / 2024. The courses are held in English, in face-to-face sessions.
– Protests in Eastern and Western Europe since 2010
– Everyday life, consumption culture and planned leisure in the late Soviet Union
– Draw me your society: visual research of social imagination
Labelled / Размещено в: français, исследования on 11 Jul, 2023
Indicateurs du secteur public et de l’économie russe qui révèlent une mutation de la gestion néolibérale, à la montée dans les années 2000, au modèle néomercantiliste qui résulte en guerre contre l’Ukraine en 2022.
Labelled / Размещено в: italiano, публикации on 7 Jul, 2023
Il putsch e il successivo perdono presidenziale di Putin nei confronti di Evgenij Prigozhin potrebbero essere parte di un patto fra Signore della guerra pubblico e Signore della guerra privato, in una situazione in cui la Russia vive una fase neomercantilista simile a quella del capitalismo seicentesco.
Labelled / Размещено в: english, публикации on 5 Jul, 2023
OpenDemocracy publication: Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner army, once wrote kids’ stories. What can they tell us about his ‘March on Moscow’? Why call Wagner’s mutiny a second coup and which one was the first? How the beginning of Prigozhin’s story makes part of a regression of the Russian state capitalism to its neo-mercantilist mode and what its final chapter has to do with a claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of force?
Labelled / Размещено в: français, дискуссии, исследования on 9 Nov, 2022
A discussion on time management in the USSR at the festival of social sciences “Allez savoir 2022” (Marseille).
Participants: Alexander Bikbov, Alexandra Koulaeva, Isabelle Thireau.
Video of the discussion in French, with switchable subtitles in English and other languages.
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