@edsu this is really very interesting how you use drawing. Indeed, drawings, even schematic ones, can be well used in analysis and dissemination! I know that Bourdieu used diagrams a lot in his book. But I didn’t know that Du Bois made himself watercolour visionary infographics. Thanks a lot for bringing my attention to this fact!

A new blogpost on how to use line and graphic drawing in ethnography and more broadly in social research 👉🏽https://alexandrinavanke.com/2025/06/11/seeing-between-the-lines-how-drawing-opens-up-new-horizons-in-social-research/

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Interested in the social imaginary and lay perceptions of inequality? Check out my short piece on how ‘ordinary’ people in Russia view inequality, just published in Everyday Society.

https://es.britsoc.co.uk/the-creative-power-of-social-imagination-or-how-ordinary-people-view-inequalities-in-russian-society/

#inequality #poverty #society #imagination #sociology #Russia

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Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of the British Sociological Association. Link to the full issue 👉🏽https://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network/network-current-issue/

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🌹A new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Paupolina Gundarin, very positive with some examples from the everyday life of the author of this book review. For this time in Russian 👉🏽 https://syg.ma/@paupolina/sovetskoe-v-postsovetskom-v-knige-aleksandriny-vanke-the-urban-life-of-workers-in-post-soviet-russia-engaging-in-everyday-struggle

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🌿 "The Horta Comunitária do Grajaú dreams of expanding its impact by strengthening agroecological practices, increasing community engagement, and inspiring more urban gardens across Rio de Janeiro."

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Very sad news about the death of Michael Burawoy. This’s a huge loss for the global sociological community. His contribution to sociology has been enormous. His Marxist ethnography of the working classes inspired and influenced my research on workers. https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2016/04/michael-burawoy-on-sociology-and-the-workplace/

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An interview with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ in Italian by Mitja Stefancic. / Intervista con me sul libro mio per i miei amici e colleghi che parlano italiano.

https://www.meridiano13.it/alexandrina-vanke-russia-intervista/

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🔥🔥🔥One more wonderful review of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia'! For this time, by Arpita Rachel Abraham published in Doing Sociology: 'the book opens up a different terrain of thinking about political action - one often overshadowed by elite politics.' Thank you! धन्यवाद

https://doingsociology.org/2025/01/20/the-urban-life-of-workers-in-post-soviet-russia-engaging-in-everyday-struggle-by-alexandra-vanke-2024-a-review-by-arpita-rachel-abraham/

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“The bottom line: Climate change didn't provide the spark that caused each of these catastrophic fires in LA County. But it's making such fires worse.”

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/12/la-fires-climate-change-drought-extreme-weather

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 One more review of my book which came about organically. This one is more critical than the two previous reviews. I only didn’t get why the reviewer Viktoria Kobzeva ‘feels’ my theoretical contribution as to be limited. My book extends the critical theory of feelings. As an author, I want to believe that my theory of feelings has no limits. But many thanks for engaging with my book!

https://ceureviewofbooks.com/review/challenging-stereotypes-of-post-soviet-russian-workers/

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An interview by Mitja Stefancic with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ is out in Radical Ecological Democracy. It seems that my two topics of workers’ life and everyday ecologies conjoined. Read it here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/working-class-life-emerging-alternatives-in-russia/

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One year since the release of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia'. In the new blog, I provide my response to two positive reviews on the book, which raise important questions about my approach to class and struggle. https://alexandrinavanke.com/2025/01/09/my-response-to-the-book-reviews-on-the-urban-life-of-workers-in-post-soviet-russia/

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Here’s a Serbian translation of a shorter version of an interview with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ and class formation in Russian society. Eng and Ita versions will come later.

https://zofijini.net/ruska-druzba-se-spreminja-je-precej-bolj-raznolika-od-tega-kar-prikazujejo-zahodni-mediji/

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Very glad to start writing here about my research on everyday environmentalism.

Want to learn about waste sorting and recycling in today’s Russia? Read my new short article in The Sociological Review Magazine ♻️ Recycling to resist 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/december-2024/waste/recycling-to-resist/

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The Permaculture Paradise Institute is committed to transforming agriculture and strengthening rural communities through sustainable agriculture based on the principles of permaculture and agroecology.

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#agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #permaculture #permacultura #agroforestry #agrofloresta #agroforesterie #malawi #africa

New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Christopher Altamura (the University of Kansas) is out in International Sociology, the journal of the International Sociological Association 👉🏽 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02685809241277944b

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New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by sociologist Claudio Morrison 👉🏽 https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12697

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I’m very glad to read the first positive review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr. Claudio Morrison from Middlesex University published in The Russian Review.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/russ.12697

As well as praising the book, Morrison raises important questions about my theoretical account and the current state of area and working-class studies. I'll write my response later. This review came about organically, without me asking the journal or the author to write it.

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From Sociology journal’s X. Interested in how to study lay perceptions of inequality and social structure? Read my recent article here https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231194867

#inequality #socialstructure #power #society