Alexandrina Vanke
@alevan.bsky.social
Sociologist, senior researcher, gardener 🌹🌿| Author of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ (ManchesterUP, 2024) https://t.ly/2VHg1 | Social theory, ethnography, class, inequality, urban space, deindustrialization, everyday environmentalism
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Alexandrina Vanke
@alevan.bsky.social
· Dec 6
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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🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
January 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
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...
December 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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...
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Clothilde Dozier a réalisé une série formidable : "On va pas s'mentir" sur la lutte en cours des salariés d'Arcelor-Mittal pour le journal Fakir
L'ensemble des épisodes est visible ici :
fakirpresse.info/on-va-pas-sm...
Très vive recommandation sur l'actualité de la désindustrialisation
L'ensemble des épisodes est visible ici :
fakirpresse.info/on-va-pas-sm...
Très vive recommandation sur l'actualité de la désindustrialisation
« On va pas s’mentir » #2 : Tenir la distance - fakirpresse.info
« Tenir la distance » : premier épisode de notre série sur la lutte des salariés d'ArcelorMittal
fakirpresse.info
December 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Clothilde Dozier a réalisé une série formidable : "On va pas s'mentir" sur la lutte en cours des salariés d'Arcelor-Mittal pour le journal Fakir
L'ensemble des épisodes est visible ici :
fakirpresse.info/on-va-pas-sm...
Très vive recommandation sur l'actualité de la désindustrialisation
L'ensemble des épisodes est visible ici :
fakirpresse.info/on-va-pas-sm...
Très vive recommandation sur l'actualité de la désindustrialisation
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Winter weather is not usually recognized as a factor in plant closing struggles, but it is when a multinational fails to heat a 'temporarily idled' mill in a northern climate. Freezing pipes begin to burst and the community fears the mill will be forever ruined.
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
Pulp mill owners urged to ‘step up’ and heat shuttered northwestern Ontario plant | CBC News
People in Terrace Bay are being supported in their calls for the owners of a pulp mill in the northwestern Ontario community to provide winter maintenance at the plant where operations came to a halt ...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Winter weather is not usually recognized as a factor in plant closing struggles, but it is when a multinational fails to heat a 'temporarily idled' mill in a northern climate. Freezing pipes begin to burst and the community fears the mill will be forever ruined.
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
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Sociology is excited to offer authors the chance to make a video abstract to promote your work! This can help make anarticle accessible to a wider audience.
See the first video abstract, by Dr Alexandrina Vanke, the winner of 2025's Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence doi.org/10.1177/0038...
See the first video abstract, by Dr Alexandrina Vanke, the winner of 2025's Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Sociology is excited to offer authors the chance to make a video abstract to promote your work! This can help make anarticle accessible to a wider audience.
See the first video abstract, by Dr Alexandrina Vanke, the winner of 2025's Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence doi.org/10.1177/0038...
See the first video abstract, by Dr Alexandrina Vanke, the winner of 2025's Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
Our jury recognised two articles published in The Sociological Review journal in 2024 as Highly Commended.
Scholars @alevan.bsky.social, and Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett & Janet Holland, were acknowledged for their papers.
➡️ More on the awards: buff.ly/ioq5Tlv
Big congrats to the authors of the winning article of the Year 2024! Looking forward to reading it 🎉 And many thanks to the jury of The Sociological Review for highly commending my article ‘Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods’!
🏆 Journal Article of the Year 2024 award 🏆
Congratulations to Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy & Sarah Arnal for their "important intervention to debates about the depoliticisation of Islamophobia” and “powerful reflection” on a mass-casualty attack on a mosque.
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Congratulations to Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy & Sarah Arnal for their "important intervention to debates about the depoliticisation of Islamophobia” and “powerful reflection” on a mass-casualty attack on a mosque.
buff.ly/mymgBqc
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Big congrats to the authors of the winning article of the Year 2024! Looking forward to reading it 🎉 And many thanks to the jury of The Sociological Review for highly commending my article ‘Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods’!
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This article by @simov.bsky.social on Black and Muslim Italians navigating post-Brexit Britain brings double consciousness into the realities of global mobility. It's a sharp, thoughtful take on how opportunity, recognition, and belonging collide. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain
This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians liv....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This article by @simov.bsky.social on Black and Muslim Italians navigating post-Brexit Britain brings double consciousness into the realities of global mobility. It's a sharp, thoughtful take on how opportunity, recognition, and belonging collide. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The December issue of Global Dialogue is out now in English at globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge....
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The December issue of Global Dialogue is out now in English at globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge....
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From the Archive: Robert Biel, 'Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing' - outlines a future where society re-energizes itself by recapturing creative dynamism and applying creativity to meeting physical energy needs. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing - Robert Biel, 2014
This article outlines a future where society re-energizes itself, in the sense both of recapturing creative dynamism and of applying creativity to meeting physi...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From the Archive: Robert Biel, 'Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing' - outlines a future where society re-energizes itself by recapturing creative dynamism and applying creativity to meeting physical energy needs. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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"When I present my work, it often meets incredulity or hostility, even among fellow social scientists. I can’t tell you how many times my work has been downgraded to ‘that’s just an anecdote’". Link to a rant in the next post.
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"When I present my work, it often meets incredulity or hostility, even among fellow social scientists. I can’t tell you how many times my work has been downgraded to ‘that’s just an anecdote’". Link to a rant in the next post.
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”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
A new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Anna Shadrina is out in Sociology journal. I’m very pleased to see the continuing interest in my book before its upcoming paperback release on 20 Jan 2026.
Read the full book review 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read the full book review 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles - Anna Shadrina, 2025
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October 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Anna Shadrina is out in Sociology journal. I’m very pleased to see the continuing interest in my book before its upcoming paperback release on 20 Jan 2026.
Read the full book review 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read the full book review 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 7th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group to discuss ongoing research!
Roundtable - Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group to discuss research ongoing research
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October 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 7th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group to discuss ongoing research!
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The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!
October 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The new issue of LABOR is here, and it’s hot!
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Sociology and Work, Employment and Society are now accepting applications to join the Editorial Board.
Find the full details on how to apply at the link below. Deadline for applications is 30 October 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
Find the full details on how to apply at the link below. Deadline for applications is 30 October 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
Nominations
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October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Sociology and Work, Employment and Society are now accepting applications to join the Editorial Board.
Find the full details on how to apply at the link below. Deadline for applications is 30 October 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
Find the full details on how to apply at the link below. Deadline for applications is 30 October 2025.
www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc
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Today’s DePOT Deindustrialization Blog comes from Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar.
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
Deindustrialization and the Calumet Region – Deindustrialization
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October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Today’s DePOT Deindustrialization Blog comes from Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar.
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
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Congratulations to @alevan.bsky.social
on the publication of their latest article on multi-sited ethnography & creative method.
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Ethnography #ResearchMethods #Sociology
on the publication of their latest article on multi-sited ethnography & creative method.
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Ethnography #ResearchMethods #Sociology
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Congratulations to @alevan.bsky.social
on the publication of their latest article on multi-sited ethnography & creative method.
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Ethnography #ResearchMethods #Sociology
on the publication of their latest article on multi-sited ethnography & creative method.
Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Ethnography #ResearchMethods #Sociology
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If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
www.lse.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Almost the end of the growing season in the Moscow region. The garden is preparing to fall asleep🌹🌿🍂🍁
October 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Almost the end of the growing season in the Moscow region. The garden is preparing to fall asleep🌹🌿🍂🍁
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In our October blog, Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.
Social Reproduction and Scandal in Netflix’s Toxic Town – Deindustrialization
Jodie Whittaker as Susan and Aimee Lou Wood as Tracey in Toxic Town. Photograph: Ben Blackall/Netflix via The Guardian
deindustrialization.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In our October blog, Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.
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Entrevista a la @wbottero.bsky.social sobre estudiar l'estratificació social a partir de la interacció social, per als alumnes de l'assignatura Estratificació social del Grau de Sociologia. @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MvC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MvC...
🎙️ [ENTREVISTA] Wendy Bottero. Estudiar la estratificación social a partir de la interacción social
YouTube video by UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Entrevista a la @wbottero.bsky.social sobre estudiar l'estratificació social a partir de la interacció social, per als alumnes de l'assignatura Estratificació social del Grau de Sociologia. @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MvC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MvC...
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💥Join us this Thursday 3-4.30pm BST for our online reading group!💥
We'll be discussing storytelling & classism by reading some of
Lisa McKenzie's Getting By, which tells the story of people living on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham.
Sign up below👇
tinyurl.com/y3bnz5vc
We'll be discussing storytelling & classism by reading some of
Lisa McKenzie's Getting By, which tells the story of people living on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham.
Sign up below👇
tinyurl.com/y3bnz5vc
October 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
💥Join us this Thursday 3-4.30pm BST for our online reading group!💥
We'll be discussing storytelling & classism by reading some of
Lisa McKenzie's Getting By, which tells the story of people living on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham.
Sign up below👇
tinyurl.com/y3bnz5vc
We'll be discussing storytelling & classism by reading some of
Lisa McKenzie's Getting By, which tells the story of people living on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham.
Sign up below👇
tinyurl.com/y3bnz5vc
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A few of you have followed me off the back of @sslh.bsky.social 's great Labour History starter pack. If you'd like to be added to my small but growing pack of writers & academics writing/researching class or related topics then please just let me know and I'll add you.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A few of you have followed me off the back of @sslh.bsky.social 's great Labour History starter pack. If you'd like to be added to my small but growing pack of writers & academics writing/researching class or related topics then please just let me know and I'll add you.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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🌹🌿 New weekend blog on growing roses in a countryside garden as a way of observing climate shifts. Through writing about roses, I reflect on the interrelations between gardening, inequality, poetic imagination, local seasonal weather and global climate change 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/10/04/t...
Through growing roses, and what I found there (spoiler: climate change)
I delayed writing on the topic of gardening and growing roses so many times. It seemed to me that writing about these small everyday issues in a time of polycrisis was an unaffo…
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October 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
🌹🌿 New weekend blog on growing roses in a countryside garden as a way of observing climate shifts. Through writing about roses, I reflect on the interrelations between gardening, inequality, poetic imagination, local seasonal weather and global climate change 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/10/04/t...