Lisa Gaufman
@lisares.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ University of Groningen.
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
📚"The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right" https://rb.gy/493gts
📚 "Everyday foreign policy: Performing and consuming the Russian nation" https://rb.gy/8yyzy4
September 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Had a blast synergising @deconspirator.bsky.social and ARM project with @mariellew.bsky.social at the @clingendael.bsky.social REKA conference. Discussed current approaches to #FIMI and the challenges European democracies face. Despite our happy faces, we were not always optimistic...
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Had a blast synergising @deconspirator.bsky.social and ARM project with @mariellew.bsky.social at the @clingendael.bsky.social REKA conference. Discussed current approaches to #FIMI and the challenges European democracies face. Despite our happy faces, we were not always optimistic...
I can show you a contemporary analogue!
July 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I can show you a contemporary analogue!
Then Putin came to power. So in February 2000 his rise was depicted as the "Little Tsakhes" fairy tale, where Putin was presented as an ugly dwarf, whom, by the magic of the "television fairy" (Berezovsky), everyone perceives as a handsome man
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Then Putin came to power. So in February 2000 his rise was depicted as the "Little Tsakhes" fairy tale, where Putin was presented as an ugly dwarf, whom, by the magic of the "television fairy" (Berezovsky), everyone perceives as a handsome man
The script was homegrown and from mid 90s to early 2000s (you might wonder why?) there was a steady stream of hard-hitting Russian government criticism, often poking fun at current and past leaders mostly written by Victor Shenderovich
July 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The script was homegrown and from mid 90s to early 2000s (you might wonder why?) there was a steady stream of hard-hitting Russian government criticism, often poking fun at current and past leaders mostly written by Victor Shenderovich
Tested out a Russian (pre-war) “patriotic education” board game with my students, but they didn’t come away loving the Motherland too much. What I am doing wrong?*
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
May 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Tested out a Russian (pre-war) “patriotic education” board game with my students, but they didn’t come away loving the Motherland too much. What I am doing wrong?*
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
*that was sarcasm. I know what I’m doing
March 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I wonder which of my “previous research articles, which are easily accessible online” have qualified me for publishing in “Cattle Practice” 🤔
March 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I wonder which of my “previous research articles, which are easily accessible online” have qualified me for publishing in “Cattle Practice” 🤔
Was caught in the act of presenting some of our research for @deconspirator.bsky.social at #ISA2025 . I might have been praying for more data access…
March 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Was caught in the act of presenting some of our research for @deconspirator.bsky.social at #ISA2025 . I might have been praying for more data access…
Yanukovich might get a roommate after all.
December 8, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Yanukovich might get a roommate after all.
Apropos of nothing, this is the photo of a pumpkin we carved with my partner during Trump's first election cycle. Still tracks!
October 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Apropos of nothing, this is the photo of a pumpkin we carved with my partner during Trump's first election cycle. Still tracks!
That’s what usually happens: journalists publish our argument but never reference our book… that’s literally our what we say! Racism (displaced abjection) and misogyny are chapters in the book!
October 28, 2024 at 5:37 AM
That’s what usually happens: journalists publish our argument but never reference our book… that’s literally our what we say! Racism (displaced abjection) and misogyny are chapters in the book!
It does look good on a shelf 🤓
Thanks for the shout-out, Paul!
Thanks for the shout-out, Paul!
October 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM
It does look good on a shelf 🤓
Thanks for the shout-out, Paul!
Thanks for the shout-out, Paul!
Speaking of triples and ubiquitous narratives…
October 6, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Speaking of triples and ubiquitous narratives…
Apparently, Lil Nas X’ music is perfect for string quartets
October 5, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Apparently, Lil Nas X’ music is perfect for string quartets
“Compelling, well-researched tracts”
September 28, 2024 at 4:13 PM
“Compelling, well-researched tracts”
Ok, I decided to hunt down the couch
September 28, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Ok, I decided to hunt down the couch
Coronaüberreste. Die Pandemie ist doch vorbei, oder?
September 24, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Coronaüberreste. Die Pandemie ist doch vorbei, oder?
It looks like Surikov’s “Boyarynya Morozova” painting to me… is McNaughton a connoisseur of Russian art?!
August 30, 2024 at 10:02 PM
It looks like Surikov’s “Boyarynya Morozova” painting to me… is McNaughton a connoisseur of Russian art?!
FWIW being afraid of menstrual blood and comparing it to the tide of communism is something very much Nazi coded (see Klaus Theweleit), which, in Cheong’s case, checks out
August 7, 2024 at 8:05 AM
FWIW being afraid of menstrual blood and comparing it to the tide of communism is something very much Nazi coded (see Klaus Theweleit), which, in Cheong’s case, checks out
Political violence is VERY much American. The whole country started with the violence of slavery and indigenous genocide. But I guess that does not count as political for them?..
July 14, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Political violence is VERY much American. The whole country started with the violence of slavery and indigenous genocide. But I guess that does not count as political for them?..
This bank card design will soon be illegal in Russia because it “promotes the symbols of extremist international LGBT movement” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
July 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
This bank card design will soon be illegal in Russia because it “promotes the symbols of extremist international LGBT movement” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Someone from Bedminster is checking out my work… I wonder who could that be 🙃
April 20, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Someone from Bedminster is checking out my work… I wonder who could that be 🙃