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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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
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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
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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.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
🌹🌿 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...
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Sociological Research Online is now accepting nominations for the role of the Chair of the Editorial Board!
We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details:
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/...
We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details:
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/...
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Sociological Research Online is now accepting nominations for the role of the Chair of the Editorial Board!
We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details:
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/...
We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details:
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/...
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✨New article alert✨In her latest piece, Alexandrina Vanke introduces an avant-garde methodology that develops multi-sited ethnography of everyday life. Curious about using drawing and sketching in research, writing ethnography and creative dissemination?
Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Developing Avant-Garde Methodology for Creative Research Into Everyday Lives - Alexandrina Vanke, 2025
This article argues for the need to develop multi-sited ethnography as an avant-garde methodology that combines classic methods of observation and interviewing ...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
✨New article alert✨In her latest piece, Alexandrina Vanke introduces an avant-garde methodology that develops multi-sited ethnography of everyday life. Curious about using drawing and sketching in research, writing ethnography and creative dissemination?
Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...
Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...
✨ 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...
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
✨ 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...
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Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk
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Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
In the new blog post, I share my experience of making video abstracts for journal articles. Does a video abstract really increase research visibility and boost public engagement? Find out here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/09/13/h...
How to craft a video abstract: reflection on making research visible
While all social media are now overflooded with posts about (and by) Generative AI, I have been thinking about how to make high-quality social research visible in the era of Large Languag…
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September 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In the new blog post, I share my experience of making video abstracts for journal articles. Does a video abstract really increase research visibility and boost public engagement? Find out here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/09/13/h...
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SRO is still accepting proposals for their next special issue!
The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.
Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/...
The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.
Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/...
August 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
SRO is still accepting proposals for their next special issue!
The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.
Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/...
The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.
Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/...
A great opportunity for ECRs to write about their research for wider audiences👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.
Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.
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Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.
🔎 buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ
August 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A great opportunity for ECRs to write about their research for wider audiences👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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New book out: "Rethinking Spatial Inequality" by Linda M. Lobao, and Geography, The Ohio State University. "It offers a new perspective on the spatial dimensions of societal well-being; addressing the key question of who gets what, and where." www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/ret... #urban #sociology
August 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New book out: "Rethinking Spatial Inequality" by Linda M. Lobao, and Geography, The Ohio State University. "It offers a new perspective on the spatial dimensions of societal well-being; addressing the key question of who gets what, and where." www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/ret... #urban #sociology