How to socialize your new PhD students who worry about citation and reading practices? Give them Sokolov 2023. This is a great follow-up of his earlier work on 'nativist' versus 'provincial' thinking in Russian scholarship.
Apropos the erasure of Area Studies, this panel at ASA Bham 2025 looks very relevant. Please, ethnographers in Area Studies depts, consider proposing a paper theasa.org/conferences/...
Juliane Fürst on the shadow of Yurchak on Soviet historiography, and the problem of Sovietness v. nation schism in scholarship. t.co/5nmn4LbdDd
Funny story: I was once interviewing a low-rank member of LT organized crime in Kaunas at a shopping mall and he actually made a joke: 'At least this shopping mall isn't part owned by Bono'. You had to be there. (He fucking hated U2)
Sunday reading for me of Hilary Pilkington: 'Why Should We Care What Extremists Think? The Contribution of Emic Perspectives to Understanding the “right-wing extremist” Mind-Set' journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
For Russian speakers I can strongly recommend this podcast on the lessons from Saddam Hussein's informational isolation and his decision-making/worldview, from the Iran-Iraq war to the end of his regime. Lots of indirect and direct parallels with Putin t.co/CGbCblsjB2
I thought this site was more active now but almost none of you lovely Blueskiers have clicked on this edifying and cute blogpost.
New blogpost by me. I'm trying out a new genre of expert media monitoring. Bonus: includes analysis of a poll where Russians respond: "we have no idea what the war is for" postsocialism.org/2024/09/26/r...
This will be a short review (well, actually not short) of some Russian media commentary (A. Pliushev, E. Schulmann, N. Zubarevich) and my reactions. If you think this kind of post is useful, let me kn...
New blogpost by me. I'm trying out a new genre of expert media monitoring. Bonus: includes analysis of a poll where Russians respond: "we have no idea what the war is for" postsocialism.org/2024/09/26/r...
This will be a short review (well, actually not short) of some Russian media commentary (A. Pliushev, E. Schulmann, N. Zubarevich) and my reactions. If you think this kind of post is useful, let me kn...