The new blogpost on the poetics of my book The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia to be released on 16 Jan 2024 by Manchester University Press.
It explains with examples how to integrate poetry in academic non-fiction.
My new article Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society: Compliance, Inversion and Subversion of Power Hierarchies is now out in Sociology https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231194867
The article explores #inequality and #class through the lens of affective, imaginative, moral, symbolic and sensual dimensions in the example of Russian society.
It develops an arts-based method ‘drawing of society’, applied to a multi-sited ethnography.
Today in Labor History August 21, 1752: French radical priest Jacques Roux (1752-1794) was born in Charente, France. He participated in the French Revolution and fought for a classless society and the abolition of private property. He also helped radicalize the Parisian working class. Roux was a leader of the far-left faction, Enrages, and was elected to the Paris Commune in 1791. He demanded that food be available for everyone and argued that the wealthy should executed if they horded it.
Roux is featured in a mission in the French Revolution-set game Assassin's Creed Unity. He is also portrayed in Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade. Here, Roux is dressed in a straight jacket in an asylum and the asylum directors cut off his dialogue to symbolize the state’s desire to restrain political radicals.