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
Many thanks to Dr Anna Shadrina for engaging with my book!
October 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Many thanks to Dr Anna Shadrina for engaging with my book!
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🌹🌿🍂🍁
✨ 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...
And a funny pic of you from the creative methods session :) #britsoc25
April 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And a funny pic of you from the creative methods session :) #britsoc25
I’m extremely excited about receiving the Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2025! Many thanks to the judges and the editors of Sociology journal for selecting my paper. This is an honour for me and an important step in my professionalisation. Photocredit: Melody Zhang #britsoc25
April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m extremely excited about receiving the Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2025! Many thanks to the judges and the editors of Sociology journal for selecting my paper. This is an honour for me and an important step in my professionalisation. Photocredit: Melody Zhang #britsoc25
What a nice start of the BSA conference @britsoci.bsky.social with the morning session on Bourdieu and Giddens. It was so exciting to see ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ exhibited at the MUP stand @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/ #britsoc25
April 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What a nice start of the BSA conference @britsoci.bsky.social with the morning session on Bourdieu and Giddens. It was so exciting to see ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ exhibited at the MUP stand @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/ #britsoc25
Spotted ‘Everyday politics in Russia’ by @jeremymorris.bsky.social in Blackwell’s Oxford Road in Manchester.
April 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Spotted ‘Everyday politics in Russia’ by @jeremymorris.bsky.social in Blackwell’s Oxford Road in Manchester.
I’ll share avant-garde methodology for doing multi-sited ethnography. I’ll explain how to use drawing in research, analyse multi-sensory data, creatively write with them and innovatively disseminate outputs via graphic illustrations, theoretical sketches and white-board animation #britsoc25
April 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I’ll share avant-garde methodology for doing multi-sited ethnography. I’ll explain how to use drawing in research, analyse multi-sensory data, creatively write with them and innovatively disseminate outputs via graphic illustrations, theoretical sketches and white-board animation #britsoc25
In this paper I’ll continue theorising the concept of everyday struggle introduced in my recent book ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. The paper draws on slow multi-sensory ethnography of everyday environmentalism & resistance in Moscow, Russia #britsoc25 @manchesterup.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
In this paper I’ll continue theorising the concept of everyday struggle introduced in my recent book ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. The paper draws on slow multi-sensory ethnography of everyday environmentalism & resistance in Moscow, Russia #britsoc25 @manchesterup.bsky.social
Pre-start of the BSA conference in Manchester. Crafting our slides and choosing which conference events to attend with Dr. @kaidongyu.bsky.social Check out our abstracts in the conference programme www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26842/... #britsoc25 #sociology
April 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pre-start of the BSA conference in Manchester. Crafting our slides and choosing which conference events to attend with Dr. @kaidongyu.bsky.social Check out our abstracts in the conference programme www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26842/... #britsoc25 #sociology
Spotted my textbook on qualitative research methods at the Non-Fiction book fair in Moscow #researchmethods #qualitativeresearch
April 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Spotted my textbook on qualitative research methods at the Non-Fiction book fair in Moscow #researchmethods #qualitativeresearch
‘By showing how working class people in Russia actively engage in grassroots everyday struggle, the book helps the reader achieve a better understanding of the Russian society itself.’
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
‘By showing how working class people in Russia actively engage in grassroots everyday struggle, the book helps the reader achieve a better understanding of the Russian society itself.’
‘Vanke's book has a number of strengths, derived from its original methodology. Along with standard methods such as interviews and ethnographic observations, the author makes use of informative arts-based methods in order to obtain additional insights through visual data…’
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
‘Vanke's book has a number of strengths, derived from its original methodology. Along with standard methods such as interviews and ethnographic observations, the author makes use of informative arts-based methods in order to obtain additional insights through visual data…’
Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of @britsoci.bsky.social. Link to the full issue 👉🏽 www.britsoc.co.uk/publications... @manchesterup.bsky.social #class #workers
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of @britsoci.bsky.social. Link to the full issue 👉🏽 www.britsoc.co.uk/publications... @manchesterup.bsky.social #class #workers
Listening to the public talk by Michèle Lamont about multidimensional #inequality, #dignity, #misrecognition, #stigmatisation and moral worth of the working classes in the midst of the global political and environmental crises. On the US: ‘There’re strong boundaries toward ‘people below’. #lseevents
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Listening to the public talk by Michèle Lamont about multidimensional #inequality, #dignity, #misrecognition, #stigmatisation and moral worth of the working classes in the midst of the global political and environmental crises. On the US: ‘There’re strong boundaries toward ‘people below’. #lseevents
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/
December 6, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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/
New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Christopher Altamura is out in International Sociology, the journal of the International Sociological Association. Read here 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 2, 2024 at 6:56 AM
New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Christopher Altamura is out in International Sociology, the journal of the International Sociological Association. Read here 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Delighted to share the new autumn issue of the journal Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, which I edited. This issue covers the themes of deindustrialisation and sociology of professions 👉🏽 www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/in...
October 1, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Delighted to share the new autumn issue of the journal Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, which I edited. This issue covers the themes of deindustrialisation and sociology of professions 👉🏽 www.inter-fnisc.ru/index.php/in...
New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by sociologist Claudio Morrison 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1111/russ...
September 2, 2024 at 5:05 AM
New book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by sociologist Claudio Morrison 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1111/russ...
From Doing Sociology’s X. If you are interested in writing a review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’, please message to: doingsociology2020@gmail.com
August 30, 2024 at 8:28 AM
From Doing Sociology’s X. If you are interested in writing a review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’, please message to: doingsociology2020@gmail.com
From Sociology journal’s X. Interested in how to study lay perceptions of inequality and social structure? Read my recent article here doi.org/10.1177/0038... #inequality #socialstructure #power #society
August 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM
From Sociology journal’s X. Interested in how to study lay perceptions of inequality and social structure? Read my recent article here doi.org/10.1177/0038... #inequality #socialstructure #power #society
The ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ project conference has started. I’m participating online. Will be presenting on Wednesday one part of my research on a gendered sense of place in deindustrialising neighbourhoods #deindustrialization
June 24, 2024 at 8:34 AM
The ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ project conference has started. I’m participating online. Will be presenting on Wednesday one part of my research on a gendered sense of place in deindustrialising neighbourhoods #deindustrialization
Happy International Labour Day! The poster by Dmitrii Moor (1920) ‘The 1st of May. The all-Russian subbotnik’ used for the front cover of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. Read about the poster in my blog & about the May Day activities in my book alexandrinavanke.com/2023/09/16/o...
May 1, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Happy International Labour Day! The poster by Dmitrii Moor (1920) ‘The 1st of May. The all-Russian subbotnik’ used for the front cover of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. Read about the poster in my blog & about the May Day activities in my book alexandrinavanke.com/2023/09/16/o...
Looking forward to spending three days at the BSA conference! I’m presenting the paper based on my book at 1 pm on 4 April (Thursday) in the stream Cities, Mobilities, Place and Space. Paper Session 5, Room 1. Welcome to join, if you're taking part in the event #britsoc24
April 3, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Looking forward to spending three days at the BSA conference! I’m presenting the paper based on my book at 1 pm on 4 April (Thursday) in the stream Cities, Mobilities, Place and Space. Paper Session 5, Room 1. Welcome to join, if you're taking part in the event #britsoc24