Documenting Protest Actions
with financial support from DAAD and ZOiS, Duration: 2016 - 2017, Head of project: Anastasia Stoll
A large range of questions related to political protests in the post-Soviet region remains unanswered. For example, we do not know enough about (groups of) activists, their actions and their impact. How do strategies and motivations spread? What is the relationship between protests, dominant public discourses and the existing political regime? Individual research projects can address the gaps in the literature only partially. Moreover, collecting and analysing related data is a time and resource-intensive process. Finally, not only academic researchers but also activists themselves and civil society organisations document and analyse protest actions.
In reaction to this situation we have decided to create a (English- and Russian-language) online platform with the following aims:
- Create a network of academic institutions and civil society organisations which analyse protests in the post-Soviet region;
- Present data collections on related issues;
- Promote the exchange of data collection to allow re-use and adjustment to different research questions;
- Ensure long-term storage and access to data collections about the post-Soviet region.
The initial workshop and the online platform have been financially supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). With further financial support from the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS, Berlin) we could enlist and process further data collections and prepare an application for a series of follow-up events. Documenting Protest Actions is continued on the DiscussData online-platform as thematic area with Heiko Pleines as curator.
project team
Anastasia Stoll (project coordination)
Heiko Pleines (data collection)
Felix Herrmann (digital humanities 01.07. - 31.12.2016)
Olga Sveshnikova (data collection 01.10.2016 - 31.03.2017)
Tabea Pottiez (intern 22.8. – 30.9.2016)
Ivan Reichert (student assistant 01.02. - 31.03.2017)
Stephan Torske (intern 06.02. - 31.03.2017)
Valeria Zhurakhovskaya (student assistant 01.02. - 31.03.2017)
participants of the workshop "Remembering Protest Actions"
Dr. Roman Abramov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Maxim Alyukov (Public Sociology Laboratory, St. Petersburg)
Dr. Aleksandra Arkhipova (Russian State University for the Humanities)
Aleksandr Daniel (Memorial St. Petersburg)
Jan Matti Dollbaum (Research Centre for East European Studies Bremen)
Irina Flige (Memorial St. Petersburg)
Dr. Christian Fröhlich (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Dr. Jakob Fruchtmann (Jacobs University Bremen)
Andrii Gladun (Center for Social and Labor Research, Kiev)
Stepan Goncharov (Levada Center, Moscow)
Dr. Volodymyr Ishchenko (Center for Social and Labor Research, Kiev)
Dr. Dmitry Kozlov (Memorial St. Petersburg)
Robert Latypov (Memorial Perm)
Dr. Vasil Navumau
Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines (Research Centre for East European Studies Bremen)
Manuela Putz (Research Centre for East European Studies Bremen)
Natalia Saveleva (Public Sociology Laboratory, St. Petersburg)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg (Research Centre for East European Studies Bremen)
Daria Skibo (Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg)
Mykhailo Slukvin (Center for Social and Labor Research, Kiev)
Dr. Olga Sveshnikova (University of Bremen)
Prof. Dr. Robert van Voren (Foundation to Preserve the History of Maidan, Kiev)
Johannes Veldmeijer (Foundation to Preserve the History of Maidan, Kiev)
Oleksii Viedrov (Center for Social and Labor Research, Kiev, CSLR)
Svetlana Yerpyleva (Public Sociology Laboratory, St. Petersburg, PS Lab)
Dr. Manfred Zeller (Research Centre for East European Studies Bremen)
Oleg Zhuravlev (Public Sociology Laboratory, St. Petersburg)