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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🌹♻️ My new article in Current Sociology theorises everyday struggle in relation to environmentalism. I argue that caring for the environment is part of everyday struggle, which is not only about resistance but also about the co-creation of alternatives. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0011...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is one of my favourite flowers 🌺

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🎉 New fascinating book review of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia' by Sofia Borushkina has been published in the new issue of Europe-Asia Studies journal. It’s so fulfilling to see the reviewer's immersive engagement with my book 👉🏽https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2589612

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Delighted to share 4’2025 issue of journal INTER, which I edited. It covers the current debates on ethnographic methods, grassroots eco-mobilisation after the fuel oil spill in the Black Sea, and green professions in Russia. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/in...

The front cover of the journal INTER, issue 4’2025. There are five reindeers in the harness and a woman in the sleigh driving the reindeers. The background is snowy and sunny. This the pic was made in the Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia depicting indigenous people. Author of the photo: Grigorii Pisotsckii.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Read the article 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I’m very excited by the comments of the jury members. Read the article 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Many thanks to Dr Anna Shadrina for engaging with my book!

A quote from the book review by Dr Anna Shadrina on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Alexandrina Vanke. The quote reads: ‘A theoretically rich, empirically grounded contribution to the sociology of class and urban life in authoritarian contexts.’

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Almost the end of the growing season in the Moscow region. The garden is preparing to fall asleep🌹🌿🍂🍁

The photo of a rose Emilien Guillot of a red-orange colour on the background of fallen orange and red leaves. This is early October.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

✨ My latest article on multi-sited ethnography and creative research methods is now out. It introduces an avant-garde methodology that pushes forward ethnography of everyday life. Check it out here 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1177/1360...

This image contains the title of the article by Alexandrina Vanke ‘Multi-sited ethnography: developing avant-garde methodology for creative research into everyday lives’ published in Sociological Research Online journal (with a blue cover).

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

And a funny pic of you from the creative methods session :) #britsoc25

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I’m extremely excited about receiving the Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2025! Many thanks to the judges and the editors of Sociology journal for selecting my paper. This is an honour for me and an important step in my professionalisation. Photocredit: Melody Zhang #britsoc25

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

What a nice start of the BSA conference @britsoci.bsky.social with the morning session on Bourdieu and Giddens. It was so exciting to see ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ exhibited at the MUP stand @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/ #britsoc25

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Spotted ‘Everyday politics in Russia’ by @jeremymorris.bsky.social in Blackwell’s Oxford Road in Manchester.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I’ll share avant-garde methodology for doing multi-sited ethnography. I’ll explain how to use drawing in research, analyse multi-sensory data, creatively write with them and innovatively disseminate outputs via graphic illustrations, theoretical sketches and white-board animation #britsoc25

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In this paper I’ll continue theorising the concept of everyday struggle introduced in my recent book ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. The paper draws on slow multi-sensory ethnography of everyday environmentalism & resistance in Moscow, Russia #britsoc25 @manchesterup.bsky.social

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Pre-start of the BSA conference in Manchester. Crafting our slides and choosing which conference events to attend with Dr. @kaidongyu.bsky.social Check out our abstracts in the conference programme www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26842/... #britsoc25 #sociology

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Spotted my textbook on qualitative research methods at the Non-Fiction book fair in Moscow #researchmethods #qualitativeresearch

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

‘By showing how working class people in Russia actively engage in grassroots everyday struggle, the book helps the reader achieve a better understanding of the Russian society itself.’

Alexandrina Vanke is holding in her hands her book ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle’

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

‘Vanke's book has a number of strengths, derived from its original methodology. Along with standard methods such as interviews and ethnographic observations, the author makes use of informative arts-based methods in order to obtain additional insights through visual data…’

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

‘Presenting an analysis of valuable multi-sensory data, the book provides fresh, practical knowledge of how ordinary working class people become engaged in everyday struggles.’ #class #workers #russia

The picture of four copies of the book entitled ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle’ by Alexandrina Vanke

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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 @britsoci.bsky.social. Link to the full issue 👉🏽 www.britsoc.co.uk/publications... @manchesterup.bsky.social #class #workers

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Listening to the public talk by Michèle Lamont about multidimensional #inequality, #dignity, #misrecognition, #stigmatisation and moral worth of the working classes in the midst of the global political and environmental crises. On the US: ‘There’re strong boundaries toward ‘people below’. #lseevents

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I wrote ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle’. It tells the story of working-class communities in post-industrial cities explaining the challenges they face and showing how they struggle with them. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Christopher Altamura is out in International Sociology, the journal of the International Sociological Association. Read here 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Delighted to share the new autumn issue of the journal Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, which I edited. This issue covers the themes of deindustrialisation and sociology of professions 👉🏽 www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/in...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

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

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

“Through a multidimensional analysis of “workers’ urban life and everyday struggles”, Alexandrina Vanke aims to counter dismissive attitudes toward subordinate groups by showing how they resist a hostile neoliberal world in multiple creative ways. Rejecting notions of “Russian workers’ patience” based on narrow understandings of class conflict in terms of industrial conflict, the author provides examples of creative resistance inspired by a practical consciousness embedded in class-based imaginaries that reveal their awareness of a deeply divided and unequal social structure.”

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

From Doing Sociology’s X. If you are interested in writing a review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’, please message to: doingsociology2020@gmail.com

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

From Sociology journal’s X. Interested in how to study lay perceptions of inequality and social structure? Read my recent article here doi.org/10.1177/0038... #inequality #socialstructure #power #society

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

The ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ project conference has started. I’m participating online. Will be presenting on Wednesday one part of my research on a gendered sense of place in deindustrialising neighbourhoods #deindustrialization

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Happy International Labour Day! The poster by Dmitrii Moor (1920) ‘The 1st of May. The all-Russian subbotnik’ used for the front cover of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. Read about the poster in my blog & about the May Day activities in my book alexandrinavanke.com/2023/09/16/o...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Looking forward to spending three days at the BSA conference! I’m presenting the paper based on my book at 1 pm on 4 April (Thursday) in the stream Cities, Mobilities, Place and Space. Paper Session 5, Room 1. Welcome to join, if you're taking part in the event #britsoc24

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 My author copies arrived yesterday. And today ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ is a 1-month-old book! This is a great occasion to encourage you to order my book for your University and local libraries: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/ Make society better now!

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

📌 Important message 📌 If you would like to read The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia but cannot afford buying it, please DM.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

📌 If you are interested in writing a review, please contact LSE Review of Books which added The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia to their review lists on Sociology and Anthropology, and Europe. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

📌 On 25 January at 4 pm (GMT), I’ll be presenting The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia at the seminar of Bourdieu, Work, and Inequalities Research Network. Welcome to join us! Please register here: bourdieuwork.hypotheses.org/spring-2024-...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

📌 If you want to help my research on workers and ordinary people in Russia become visible, please consider taking action from the list below👇🏽 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/recommend-to...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

🎉 I’m delighted to announce that The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia is now out! The book is available to order from all good bookshops and online #theurbanlifeofworkers manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/

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