colloquium lecture
18:15 pm, IW3 0330 / hybrid
Introduction for students.
Muriel Nägler (FSO)
Dr. Oleg Zhuravlev
Visiting Scholar
Grant from the University of Bremen within the STIBET funding line of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
e-mail: olegjouravlev@gmail.com
field of research
- Social movement studies
- sociology of revolutions
- pragmatic sociology
- Marxism
Short CV
Education
Oleg Zhuravlev graduated European University at St. Petersburg (department of political science and sociology) in 2010. He wrote and defended his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) in 2018.
Work experience
At present - Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen
At present - Researcher at the Public Sociology Laboratory at the Center for Independent Social Research (CSLR), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
2017-2019 - Oleg Zhuravlev worked as a professor at the School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen
2019-2020 - Professor at Narxoz University, Kazakhstan
Selected publications
Zhuravlev O., Kondov D., Savelieva N. “The European University at St. Petersburg: a case study in sociology of post-Soviet knowledge,” // Studies in East European Thought 61 (4) (2009).
Zhuravlev O. From Presence to Belonging: Eventful Identity of Euromaidan // Psychology, Journal of the Higher School of Economics, Vol. 12. No. 3. P. 69–85 (2015)
Žuravlev, Oleg. ”Vad blev kvar av Bolornajatorget? En ny start för den lokala aktivismen i Ryssland”, Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, 7: 129-164 (2017)
Zhuravlev Oleg (co-authored with S. Erpyleva and N. Savelieva), Nationwide Protest and Local Action: How Anti-Putin Rallies Politicized / Russian Urban Activism / Russian Analytical Digest, no. 210, November (2017)
Zhuravlev O., Savelyeva N., and Erpyleva S. The Pragmatics of an Event: The Politicization of Apolitical Activism in Russia // International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (2019)
Zhuravlev O., Ishchenko V. Exclusiveness of civic nationalism: Euromaidan eventful nationalism in Ukraine // Post-Soviet Affairs (2020)
Matveev I., Zhuravlev O. Loft Offices and Factory Towns: Social Sources of Political Polarization in Russia // Socialist Register. Vol. 58. P. 221—240 (2021)
Zhuravlev O. The New Protest Movements and the Left in Russia: To Overcome the Crisis of Hegemony // The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’ (eds. Agnes Gagyi and Ondřej Slačálek). Palgrave Macmillan (2021)
Zhuravlev O., Ishchenko V. Ideology, hegemony crisis, and depoliticization. Why do Russian citizens support the invasion of Ukraine? // To be published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Ischshenko V., Zhuravlev O. Post-Soviet vicious circle: revolution as a reproduction of a crisis of hegemony // To be published in The Anthem Companion to Gramsci, edited by Dylan J. Riley and Marco Santoro. Anthem Press.
Grants
April 2012 - December 2012: Fellowship of Department of liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, research on Russian post-election protests.
January 2013-December 2013: Fellowship of Department of liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, research on Russian post-election protests and local political collectives
January 2014-August 2015: Local activism in Russia after the “For fair elections” movement, National endowment for Democracy.
January 2015-January 2018, The conflict in Eastern Ukraine: motivations, identities, mobilization, Volkswagen Foundation.
January 2016-January 2019, Protest movements in Post-Soviet countries, Volkswagen Foundation
March 2020-March 2023, Socio-economic policies and protest movements in Russia, Germany and Ukraine, Volkswagen Foundation
August 2019-August 2022, The new nationalisms in post-ideological era: comparing post-Soviet countries and Serbia, Russian Scientific Foundation.