Everyday Politics in Russia

Jeremy Morris is Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life (2023), Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins (2016), and co-editor of New Media in New Eurasia (2015); The Informal Postsocialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods (2014), Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life (2017). His article entitled ‘Beyond Coping? Alternatives to Consumption within Russian Worker Networks’, in Ethnography, was shortlisted for the BBC’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ prize for ethnography in 2014.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction: Rethinking the Meaning of the Political in RussiaPart I - ABSENT PRESENCESChapter 1. War and Society Response: Defensive ConsolidationChapter 2. Feeling for an Absent Presence: The Roots of Russian RessentimentChapter 3. Absurd Inhabitations: Portraits of Suffering and StrivingPART II: LIINES OF CONTROLChapter 4. Capitalist Realism: Russia's Laboratories of Hopelessness?Chapter 5. Incoherent State: On Co-Producing Governance from BelowPART III: LINES OF FLIGHTChapter 6. Nomads: An Intermezzo on Garages and Other Non-PlacesChapter 7. Craft as Politics: From Salvage Economies to Mending the WorldChapter 8. 'This Thing We Do': Wartime Entanglement of People in PoliticsChapter 9. Peopling the Everyday Politics of Post-SocialismReferencesIndex

The book provides readers with unique ethnographic material as well as up-to-date scholarly discussion of central touchstones in area studies.