Dr. Svetlana Erpyleva

Post-doctoral researcher
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
 

E-mail: erpyleva@uni-bremen.de / yerpylovas@gmail.com

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Current Research Project:

“Not Mature Enough for Politics? Political Participation and Cognition of Children in Russia”

"How do Russians perceive the Russian military aggression in Ukraine?"

Fields of Research

• Political participation of children and youth
• Political socialization
• Political culture
• Grassroots politics and civil society in Russia
• Perception of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Short CV

Education

Ph.D., Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, 2019

MA, Sociology, European University at Saint-Petersburg, 2013

BA, Sociology, State University - Higher School of Economics at Saint-Petersburg, 2010


Professional Employment

2022-present   Humboldt fellow, Post-doctoral researcher, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen

2013-present   Researcher, Public Sociology Laboratory, Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg

2021–2022      Post-doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki

2019-2020       Assistant Professor, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen

2017-2019       Researcher and Instructor, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen

2012-2018       Editorial assistant, “Stasis” journal (http://stasisjournal.net/)


Selected Publications
 
Edited Volumes

2023    The War Near and Far. How Russians perceive the invasion of Ukraine February 2022 through June 2022. Amsterdam: Lmverlag (co-editor, with Natalia Savelyeva).

2015    The Politics of Apoliticals, Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, in Russian (co-editor, with Artemy Magun).

Refereed Journal Articles

2023    “The climate is changing, and the President is not:” How the Russian climate activists avoid politics and fight with the regime, Europe-Asia studies, accepted (co-authored with Eeva Luhtakallio).

2023    “Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20, Childhood 30(3): 219–234.

2023    Protest Event, Political Culture, and the Power of Biography: The Post-Protest Local Activism in Russia, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, open access.

2022    “Collective Cognitive Tasks as a Method for Studying Political Reasoning,” Qualitative Psychology, advance online publication (co-authored with Maxim Alyukov).

2021    “Active Citizens Under Eighteen: Minors in Political Protests.” Journal of Youth Studies 24(9): 1215-1233.

2020    “The Cultural Pragmatics of an Event: the Politicization of Local Activism in Russia.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 33, 163-180 (co-authored with Oleg Zhuravlev and Natalia Savelyeva).

2018    “Freedom’s children in protest movements: Private and public in the socialization of young Russian and Ukrainian activists.” Current Sociology 66(1), 20-37.

2014    “Individualism and Solidarity in New Russian Social Movements.” The Journal of Social Policy Studies 2, 185–200, in Russian (co-authored with Oleg Zhuravlev and Natalia Savelyeva).

2011    “Political Performance as Breaching Experiment in Ethnomethodology.” SOCIS 15, 10–18, in Russian.

Book Chapters
  2015    “Social Justice in Post-Socialist Protests: Comparing Anti-Regime Mobilization in Russia and Ukraine.” In Sava, Ionel (ed.), Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti (co-authored with Maxim Alyukov, Oleg Zhuravlev, and Andrey Nevsky).

2015    “I didn’t go to the rallies because of parents’ prohibition:” growing-up process and independence in depoliticized context.” In Erpyleva, Svetlana and Artemy Magun (eds.), The Politics of Apoliticals, Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, in Russian.

2015    “The Rallies in Russia in 2011-12: Did Politics Come Back to the Streets?” In Erpyleva, Svetlana and Artemy Magun (eds.), The Politics of Apoliticals, Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, in Russian.

2014    “The Adolescents’ Protests in Russia and Europe: Political Independency in Democratic Societies Revisited.” In Belokurova, Elena and Maria Nozhenko (eds), Made in Europe. The View of Russian Researchers, St. Petersburg, Norma, in Russian.

Editor-Reviewed Articles

2021    “Are Children Born Social Actors?” Forum for Anthropology and Culture 16, 39-47.

2017    “Nationwide Protest and Local Action: How Anti-Putin Rallies Politicized Russian Urban Activism.” Russian Analytical Digest 210, 15-19 (co-authored with Oleg Zhuravlev and Natalia Savelyeva).

2013    “‘Parents did not let me go’: protest politicization of adolescents in the depoliticized society.” Sociologia Vlasti 4, 150-174, in Russian.

Media Publications (in English only)
  2022    “Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine?” OpenDemocracy, April 16. Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-ukraine-war-support-interviews-opinion/

2021    “What’s new about Russia’s new protests?” OpenDemocracy, June 3. (co-authored with Oleg Zhuravlev). Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/whats-new-in-russia-protests-2021-navalny/

2020    “Children Changing Politics.” Baltic Rim Economies, 1, February 28. Retrieved from https://sites.utu.fi/bre/children-changing-politics/

2018    “The Politicization of Russian Youth.” New Eastern Europe, January 1: 7-13. Retrieved from https://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/01/02/politicisation-russian-youth/

2014    “Apoliticism and Solidarity: Local Activism in Russia.” (co-authored with Oleg Zhuravlev and Natalia Savelyeva). Lefteast, October 6. Retrieved from
https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/apoliticism-and-solidarity-local-activism-in-russia/


Fellowships

2020    Post-doctoral Junior Fellowship, the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University (the academic year 2021/2022, declined)

2020    Visiting Fellowship, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki (2 months, received, canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic)

2019    Young Russian Scholars Helsinki Fellowship, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki (2 months)

2017    Research Fellowship, University of Southern California (2 months)

2012    Research Fellowship, Free University of Berlin (1 month)


Research Grants

2021-2024       Kone Foundation (Svetlana Erpyleva, Eeva Luhtakallio, and Maija Jokela)

2019    Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Svetlana Erpyleva, Maxim Alyukov, Matvey Lomonosov, and Brian Smith)

2016-2017       The Volkswagen Foundation (Public Sociology Laboratory, the Research Centre for East European Studies, Centre for Social and Labour Research, and Research and Information Centre Memorial)

2016-2017       The Volkswagen Foundation (Public Sociology Laboratory, the Bonn Centre for Conversion and the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

2012-2013       Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Public Sociology Laboratory and group of researchers of St. Petersburg State University)

2010    Heinrich Böll Foundation (individual project)