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Serguei Alex. Oushakine
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Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Associate Faculty in the Department of Anthropology |
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226 East Pyne Hall |
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On leave in 2009-2010 |
| e-mail: |
oushakin@princeton.edu |
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PhD with distinction in Anthropology (Columbia University, 2005);
Master of Philosophy in Anthropology (Columbia University, 2002);
Master of Philosophy in Gender Studies (Central European University, Hungary / Open University, Great Britain, 1998);
Kandidat of Political Sciences (Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1995); Diploma in History and Social Sciences with Excellence (Altai State University, Russia, 1988) |
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http://www.princeton.edu/oushakine/ |
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profile: My research interests lie in several areas and disciplines. As an anthropologist, I work in Eurasia, where I explore how the collapse of state socialism has simultaneously undermined already existing communities and precipitated the emergence of new ones. In my book, The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia, I trace the importance of experienced or imagined traumas for creating postsocialist identities and meanings. I have also continued my study of the cultural representations of identities that emerge at the intersection of gender, nation, and law by writing about male bandits in Russian cinema and female detectives in Russian prose. My new areas of research focus on postcolonial authoritarianism in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, the practices of late Soviet consumption, the political mobilization of popular culture in Soviet Russia, and socialist nostalgia.
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courses: Undergraduate courses taught:
Between Heaven and Hell: Myths and Memories of Siberia
Value Added: Moral Dilemmas of Economic Exchanges
Money: Equivalent, Value, and Symbol
Russia Today
Revolutionary Minds: Framing Russia's Upheavals
Socialism with a Human Face: Daily Life under the Soviet Regime
Graduate courses taught:
Family as a Genre
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current project: I co-edited a volume on ethnography and theory of trauma, "Trauma:Points" (Travma:Punkty) for Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (in Russian) and a volume The State of Ideas: Reflecting on Utopias in Eastern Europe (in English). At the moment, I am conducting my fieldwork (in Minsk, Belarus) on postcolonialism in Eurasia.
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“'Stop the Invasion!': Money, Patriotism, and Conspiracy in Russia."
in Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences.Vol. 76. No 1 (Spring 2009).
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Осколки военной памяти: "Всё, что осталось от такого ужаса?"
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 5 (2008): 234-241.
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"'Мы в Город Изумрудный идём дорогой трудной': маленькие радости весёлых человечков."
in Весёлые человечки: культурные герои советского детства. Сб. статей / Сост. и ред. И. Кукулин, М. Липовецкий, М. Майофис. - Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. Сс.9-60.
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"О пользе фиктивного родства: заметки о пропущенных именах."
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 1 (2008): 201-212.
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"Devising the Grammar of Bolshevik Ethnospeak: Assimilated Ethnographers in the Empire of Nation."
Review of Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. By Francine Hirsch. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
in Current Anthropology. Vol. 49 (2), April 2008: 346-348.
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"Vitality Rediscovered: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity in Russian Social Sciences."
in Studies in East European Thought. Vol.59 No 3 (September, 2007): 171-193.
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"Aesthetics Without Law: Cinematic Bandits in Post-Soviet Space."
in Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 51 No. 2 (Summer 2007): 357-390.
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"'We're Nostalgic But We're Not Crazy': Retrofitting The Past In Russia."
in The Russian Review. Vol. 66 No. 3 (2007): 451-482.
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"Вне находимости: Бахтин как чужое своё."
in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 3 (2006): 73-86.
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"Движения молодёжи."
Review of Х. Пилкингтон, Е. Омельченко, М. Флинн, У. Блюдина, Е. Старкова. Глядя на Запад: Культурная глобализация и российские молодежные культуры. Пер. с англ. С-Петербург, 2004. - 278 с.; П. Данилин. Новая молодежная политика 2003-2005. Москва: Европа, 2006. - 292 с.
in Neprikosnovennyi zapas. Vol.3 (2006): 223-234.
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"Politics of Pity: Domesticating Loss in a Russian Province."
in American Anthropologist. Vol. 108, No. 2 (2006): 297-311.
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"The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet Modernity."
in Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 19, No. 3 (2004): 392–428.
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"Crimes of Substitution: Detection and the Late Soviet Society."
in Public Culture. Vol. 15, No. 3 (2003): 426–452.
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"The Fatal Splitting: Symbolizing Anxiety in Post/Soviet Russia."
in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 66, No. 3 (2001): 291-319.
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"Познавая в сравнении: о евро-стандартах, мужчинах и истории".
Review of Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Eds. Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. New York: Palgrave, 2002. in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Vol. 64 (2003).
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"The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat."
in Public Culture. Vol. 13, No. 2 (2001): 191-214.
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"The Quantity of Style: Imaginary Consumption in the Post-Soviet Russia."
in Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 17, No. 5 (2000): 97-120.
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"In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia: Symbolic Development in Contemporary Russia."
in Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 52, No. 6 (2000): 991-1016.
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