Labelled / Размещено в: english on 13 Oct, 2026
Alexander Bikbov has been studying France’s contemporary protest movement since the late 2010s. In his view, it was at that time that the authorities gave the police permission to use violence. The Élysée Palace was frightened by the spontaneous mobilization of the “Yellow Vests” and chose to suppress street protests rather than to listen to the voice of the street. This fits into the global trend toward strengthening state control over public activity. What distinguishes France from some other countries is that society here continues to resist.
MOST.media interview on a topical Issue “Why is the French police brutally suppressing the street protest of high school students?” Sociologist Alexander Bikbov explains to Olga Proskurnina.
Why is 1935 an important date for understanding the institutions of street rally and democracy itself? Who in France is pretending that police violence doesn’t exist, and why? What are high school students actually demanding, and what do algorithms have to do with it? Which political forces are on their side, and whose side are they on? How does research on the “Yellow Vests” movement help us understand the high school students’ protests? When will this protest end, and what comes next? Which image of society are French high school students drawing? Is the French left currently fighting for an unconditional basic income? Read about all of this in the interview recorded in the immediate aftermath of the French high school students’ protests.
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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
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Labelled / Размещено в: english, дискуссии on 17 May, 2023
Встреча и дискуссия (на английском языке) “Resistance and solidarity against repressions in Russia” 18.05, с участием активист.ок антиавторитарных и антивоенных инициатив.
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Labelled / Размещено в: english, публикации on 17 Nov, 2022
“Inequalities and resistance in Putin’s Russia” (interview with Alexander Bikbov by Asia Leofreddi), Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa, 15/11/2022.
Dual sided population management in Russia and how the war boosts social inequalities, the neo-mercantilist current regime and how it fits the neo-liberal rationality, three major forms of anti-war resistance in Russia.
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Labelled / Размещено в: english, дискуссии on 17 Apr, 2020
April 18, 2020, at 6 p.m. (Moscow time) Young social scientists conference “Vectors” held in/outside the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences invites you to join an on-line discussion Political Action beyond Co-presence with Judith Butler, Keti Chukhrov and Alexander Bikbov, moderated by Grigory Yudin The discussion which has as starting point a […]
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Labelled / Размещено в: english, исследования, публикации on 1 Nov, 2012
A bilingual open-access peer-reviewed journal Laboratorium publishes an article that generalizes an 8-month experience of a multidimensional empirical research of street protests in Russia: Alexander Bikbov. The Methodology of Studying “Spontaneous” Street Activism (Russian Protests and Street Camps, December 2011—July 2012) This article considers some methodological problems that arose while studying the street protest movement […]
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