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Alexandrina Vanke

@alevan.bsky.social

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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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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats, Gavin! 😁👏🏽

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Sage Journals @journals.sagepub.com · 23h

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

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 21h

@journals.sagepub.com thank you for your congratulations and for sharing!

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 6d

Almost the end of the growing season in the Moscow region. The garden is preparing to fall asleep🌹🌿🍂🍁

The photo of a rose Emilien Guillot of a red-orange colour on the background of fallen orange and red leaves. This is early October.

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 6d

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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Roger Martinez @rogermartinezz.bsky.social · 9d

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
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🎙️ [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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The Working Class Climate Alliance @wccalliance.bsky.social · 8d

💥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👇

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 9d

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.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 10d

🌹🌿 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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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 14d

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/...

Image text says: 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:
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27033/sro_external_call_for_chair_apps_2025.pdf

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British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum @bsaecf.bsky.social · 19d

✨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...

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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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you, Steven!

Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 23d

✨ 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...

This image contains the title of the article by Alexandrina Vanke ‘Multi-sited ethnography: developing avant-garde methodology for creative research into everyday lives’ published in Sociological Research Online journal (with a blue cover).

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 24d

I made a lot of tomato chutney for the last three weeks. Good luck with yours!

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Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social · Sep 15

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

Watercolour illustration of front of a closed pub, signage reads After Last Orders.

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · Sep 15

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · Sep 13

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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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · Aug 28

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/...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · Aug 25

A great opportunity for ECRs to write about their research for wider audiences👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25

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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"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."

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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · Aug 13

📝 Part 2 of our October blog is out! Read about the artistic use of "green" spaces and the friction between artist and the spaces built for them and used by them

Proletarian (green) publics in transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr (Part 2) – Deindustrialization

Concert contribution as part of Martin Kessler’s “Perception” campaign in the urban garden Kopf-Stadt-Salat, Recklinghausen. Photo: Markus Jöhring.

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Marvellous piece by Georg Simmel, which I hadn’t come across before. And, of course, there is something to debate. As both a researcher of inequality and a rose grower, I’ve found this piece fascinating, as it bridges the theoretical critique of inequality and the beauty of everyday life.

Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · Aug 13

ICYMI: Georg Simmel, 'Roses: A Social Hypothesis' - Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the ability to grow roses which became constructed as a ‘terrible inequality’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Roses: A Social Hypothesis - Georg Simmel, 2021

First published in 1897 in the avant-garde journal Jugend, Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the...

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Part 2 of the blog is now live. I continue the conversation on class within today’s global socio-political agenda in a dialogue with the reviewers of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. Join the conversation in comments, on blogs or in journals alexandrinavanke.com/2025/08/07/p...

Paperback release incoming: what critics think about my book and why it matters for the class debate – Part 2

This is the second part of the blogpost with my response to the reviewers who engaged with ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ to be released in paperback in January 2026. In this par…

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