✨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...

✨ 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...

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

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

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...

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/...

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

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

📝 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

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.

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...

This month's DEPOT deindustrialization blog is on "Proletarian (green) Publics in Transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr" by Ute Eickelkamp and Stefan Berger. deindustrialization.org/proletarian_...

🏭🧵 DePOT affiliate @lisajt67.bsky.social's book Threads Of Labour is out now! She explores worker responses to the closure of Firths Carpet, engaging with worker testimony and her own personal connection to the community. @manchesterup.bsky.social has a discount code "EVENT30" to get 30% off!

Great news! ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ will be released in paperback in January 2026 🎉 In the new blogpost, I respond to some of the critical reflections from reviewers. Read Part 1 here 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/07/25/p... @manchesterup.bsky.social

Great news! ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ will be released in paperback in January 2026 🎉 In the new blogpost, I respond to some of the critical reflections from reviewers. Read Part 1 here 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/07/25/p... @manchesterup.bsky.social

I wrote a blog about how far-right leaders use ordinary tastes & 'working-class' identifications as political weapons (with some extra focus on Meloni, her cultural politics & policies). Plus other considerations about the 'political economy' of cultural taste blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Drawing on our research for the @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded After Last Orders project, @robertdeakin.bsky.social and I share some insights into the impact of pub closures in this new article for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/consolation-...

ManchesterUP sells all its books 50% off with code SUN50, including ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ 👉🏽 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/

A small, somewhat niche pack at the moment but this is anyone writing or researching things to do with the working class and related topics such as history, place, identity, deindustrialisation, politics etc. Again, just ask to be added if you fit with this. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below: www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Last self-publicizing post on the book, I promise. I did a relatively accessible longer write up for Russia.Post in May. I've reblogged it today in case people missed it there and want the definitive: "this is what it covers". postsocialism.org/2025/06/12/t...

A new blogpost on how to use line and graphic drawing in ethnography and more broadly in social research 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/06/11/s... #ethnography #drawing #sociology #anthropology #geography #creativemethods #research

Here is the cover for our forthcoming U of Toronto Press volume, produced by the Industrial Closure working-group of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social . The cover is based on the visual art of Francesca Marconi from Italy. Eleven cross-border chapters, all multi-authored. @deindustrialpol.bsky.social

A great opportunity to join our @deindustrialpol.bsky.social project on a PhD studentship @uofglasgow.bsky.social exploring deindustrialisation and working class expression.

Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever

The creative power of social imagination: @alevan.bsky.social‬ writes about her research, in which Russian workers express their sense of their society’s inequalities in drawings tinyurl.com/mx6249dk #sociology

Interested in the social imaginary and lay perceptions of inequality? Check out my short piece on how ‘ordinary’ people in Russia view inequality, just published in Everyday Society es.britsoc.co.uk/the-creative...

Does this count as a landscape? Well, whatever, it's going up. Le Mont Saint Michel, 2022. #ThePhotoHour #Photography #France

Le prochain congrès du programme @deindustrialpol.bsky.social(Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time) se déroule cette année à Paris, du 19 au 21 juin avec pour thème : « Désindustrialisation, nation et immigration : quelles réponses politiques ? »

Today's deindustrialization studies round-table was truly inspiring - such great research! A recording will be uploaded onto the DePOT project's Youtube channel in the coming weeks. www.youtube.com/channel/UCOd...

‘When Morris’s former secretary Sydney Cockerell trekked to Yasnaya Polyana, he was disappointed to learn that Tolstoy regarded News from Nowhere as not a patch on Charles Dickens. Tolstoy was surprised in turn to learn that Morris had been ‘a craftsman as well as a writer’.

Join the Working Class Climate Alliance's political education workshop on May 28th 5.30-7pm BST (over zoom) about art as resistance: how it's been used to resist oppression & demand liberation, & training about how we can apply creativity to our own organising Register below 👇 tinyurl.com/3uypnsrh

🏭 Don't forget to register for our upcoming roundtable this Thursday, 10AM Eastern! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1335793156...

OUT NOW: issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal 🇵🇸 Palestine: A Sociological Issue essay collection 🔴 Revisiting Bev Skeggs' landmark Formations of Class and Gender 📄 Seven new papers on hope-work, Wall Street, elite Taiwan, youth activism, the stigma of loneliness & more. buff.ly/IEtbU3w

Welcome to join our online round table on May 15th. I’ll be presenting my ongoing research on environmental gentrification in the deindustrializing areas of Moscow. Looking forward to the talks by the colleagues from the DéPOT project @deindustrialpol.bsky.social #deindustrialization

Just a reminder that today I’m presenting on multi-sited ethnography at 13.30 - Methodological Innovations - room 3.213 and on everyday struggle at 15.30 - Theory - room 2.217 at @britsoci.bsky.social conference #britsoc25

I will present a paper exploring non-graduates’ transitions in the labour market at #britsoc25 today afternoon at 1.30pm in the work, employment and economic life stream in room 3.205.

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

Spotted ‘Everyday politics in Russia’ by @jeremymorris.bsky.social in Blackwell’s Oxford Road in Manchester.

Excited to participate in the @britsoci conference this week! I’m presenting two papers in the streams on Theory and Methodological Innovations on DAY-2. I’ll talk about struggles in everyday life in a neoliberal neo-authoritarian city and avant-garde methodology for creative ethnography #britsoc25

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

Why do elites work so hard to cast their origin stories in a more humble light? @samfriedman.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social on what’s behind the self-made narratives of meritocracy vs privilege among British elites #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗 buff.ly/6OceJ7t

Routledge has just published the International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies, an edited volume with 27 chapters co-edited by five people led by Tim Strangleman and including myself. Most of the contributors come out of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social . www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Alexandrina @alevan.bsky.social will be attending the #BSA2025 conference this month, where you can find her book and a selection of our other titles on the MUP stand! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/