Olga Shevchenko

Assistant Professor of Sociology

BA, Moscow State University
MA, Central European University
PhD, University of Pennsylvania

MAJOR INTERESTS

"Bread and circuses: Shifting frames and changing references in the ordinary Muscovites' political talk," in Communist and Post-Communist Studies 34:1, 2001
"In case of fire emergency": Consumption, security, and the meaning of durables in a transforming society." Journal of Consumer Culture 2:2, 2002
"Between the holes: Emerging identities and hybrid patterns of consumption in post-socialist Russia". Europe-Asia Studies, v. 54, no.6, September 2002
"Conflict traditions in Western sociology: Main themes and interpretations of Marx and Weber" (in Russian), in Yu Davydov, ed, The New and the Old in Theoretical Sociology (Moscow: ISRAN), 2003
"From socialist camp to a global village? Globalization and the imaginary landscapes of postsocialism" (with Y. Schukin), in L. McCann, ed., Russian Transformations: Challenging the Global Narrative (London: Routledge), 2004

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