sociological research and social critique
Join Flying University expert talk in Berlin on 22 November 2024, 18:00 CET, face-to-face and in zoom
Foucault and the Audit Profession: A Hidden Liaison
Alexander Bikbov, Frank Fabel, Milda Bagdonaite
Using Foucault to investigate auditing as a practice of knowledge: what kind of epistemology, which contribution by scholars and insiders, what kind of control and what kind of governmentality is auditing?
Osteuropa Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) invites to a lecture and discussion
Neomercantilist Turn of Neoliberal Government: Russia as a Global (South) Model?
by Alexander Bikbov
on 21 November 2024, 16:00-18:00
Размещено в: english, публикации on 12 Авг, 2024
How do authoritarian tendencies in governance sit together with market logic? Why has mercantilism returned to politics and how does it work? Sociologist Alexander Bikbov analyzes the deadly alliance of the neoliberal and conservative forces in contemporary Russia.
Размещено в: english, дискуссии, исследования on 21 Апр, 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.
Размещено в: english, дискуссии, инициативы on 14 Фев, 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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Размещено в: english, практические вопросы on 21 Окт, 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
Размещено в: english, публикации on 5 Июл, 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?
