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
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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?
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Размещено в: english, дискуссии on 17 Май, 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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Размещено в: english, публикации on 17 Ноя, 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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Размещено в: english, photo on 26 Май, 2020
Immediately after a partial relax of the lockdown Paris did not set itself to large street festivity. On May 11 streets were more saturated with people moving in between reopened shops than with those simply strolling, meeting and spontaneously chatting. The emancipatory shopping hasn’t stayed for the main expression of the rediscovered collectivity. Media […]
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Размещено в: english, photo on 30 Апр, 2020
The COVID-19 epidemic emptied city places, tinned public sites and readjusted sub-levels of urban routines. Have physical distancing and social isolation already established a new mode to live together that won’t cease after the lockdown is cancelled? That is a large research and political question that each society will strive to answer months and years […]
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