sociological research and social critique
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: français, исследования on 11 Июл, 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.
Размещено в: italiano, публикации on 7 Июл, 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.
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?
Размещено в: français, дискуссии, исследования on 9 Ноя, 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.
Размещено в: italiano, публикации on 18 Окт, 2022
Un’analisi delle dinamiche della società russa dal febbraio 2022: la guerra come la macchina delle disuguaglianze, le forme di consenso e di resistenza che genera (MicroMega, 14/10/22).
Российское общество в значительной степени депрессировано неравенствами и принуждением, но очаги сопротивления не угасают. Анализ динамики последних месяцев: война как машина неравенств, формы консенсуса и формы сопротивления, которые она генерирует.
Размещено в: italiano, дискуссии, исследования on 14 Окт, 2022
Alexander Bikbov: Resistance and depression in Russia during the wartime (A sociological research in unsecure conditions), DAMS, Università di Bologna
Who remains in Russia, how non-violent resistance is organized to the militarisation of public life, and how do social groups which do not adhere to conformist or activist positions adapt themselves to the dual condition of perpetrator and victim?
