Alexandrina Vanke

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DuBois's concept of double consciousness remains vital for understanding how marginalized students navigate academic spaces today. His legacy shows how sociological insight can emerge from - and speak to - experiences of exclusion and resistance. #AcademicSky #sociology

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The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia. Engaging in Everyday Struggle Published in Europe-Asia Studies (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2026)

Borushkina, S. (2026). The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia. Engaging in Everyday Struggle: Alexandrina Vanke, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024 Europe-Asia Studies, 78(1), 139–140.
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🎉 New fascinating book review of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia' by Sofia Borushkina has been published in the new issue of Europe-Asia Studies journal. It’s so fulfilling to see the reviewer's immersive engagement with my book 👉🏽https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2589612

BSA journals SRO and Cultural Sociology are now accepting Editorial Board applications!

Deadline for applications is 26 February 2026, 17:00 GMT. Details on how to apply below.

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Labor and Working Class Environmentalism Join us for our first Deindustrialization and the Environment working group discussion!

ROUNDTABLE - February 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment roundtable to discuss ongoing research!

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New in paperback: The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia and the relevance of everyday struggle The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia is now released in paperback! I am really happy about this, as the paperback edition makes the book more accessible to students, less privi…

In the new blogpost, I give my response to the two recent reviews of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ and reflect on on the relevance of everyday struggle for the current debates on the agency of the subordinate. The book is now out in paperback! alexandrinavanke.com/2026/02/02/n...

The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026 This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.

ht: Dagmar Monett

Thank you, Marie!

You can also sign up for our March 12th virtual round-table on "Political Abandonment, Silencing and Absence in Deindustrialization." Papers focus on Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe and North America.

Manchester University Press - The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia by Alexandrina Vanke

North America-based customers should use JAN40 code at the checkout 👉🏽 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/

Good news 🎉 ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ will be out in paperback on January 20 making the book more affordable. @manchesterup.bsky.social is now offering 40% off all titles, including pre-orders, with the code JAN40 👉🏽manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195746/

Journal Article of the Year 2024 Highly Commended “Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods” Alexandrina Vanke “Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?” Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett and Janet Holland The Sociological Review

🏆 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

The front cover of the journal INTER, issue 4’2025. There are five reindeers in the harness and a woman in the sleigh driving the reindeers. The background is snowy and sunny. This the pic was made in the Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia depicting indigenous people. Author of the photo: Grigorii Pisotsckii.

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...

« 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

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 :
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Très vive recommandation sur l'actualité de la désindustrialisation

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 ...

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.
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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...

So cute 😻

Amazing news! Congratulation Steven! 🎉🎉🎉

Journal Article of the Year 2024 Highly Commended “Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods” Alexandrina Vanke “Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?” Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett and Janet Holland The Sociological Review

🏆 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

Read the article 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m very excited by the comments of the jury members. Read the article 👉🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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’!

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....

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....

The December issue of Global Dialogue is out now in English at globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge....

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...

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...

"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.

”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