Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
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Beyond the Field: Ethics After Fieldwork in Politically Dynamic Contexts
Forthcoming, Perspectives on Politics, accepted [pdf] |
This article consider questions of ethics that arise beyond the field given that political scientists often work in dynamic contexts. I consider the issues of beyond the field in terms of engaging with participants, publishing and returning to the field.
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Perpetually 'Partly Free': Lessons from Post-Soviet Hybrid Regimes on Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe
2018, East European Politics [pdf] |
This article explores the lessons of Ukraine and Moldova (rampant state capture, media capture and the role of civil society), for thinking about democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Strategy, identity or legitimacy? Analysing engagement with dual citizenship from the bottom-up
2018, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies [pdf] |
This article analyses the acquisition of Romanian citizenship in Moldova from the lens of considering identity-based versus strategic explanations for acquisition of dual citizenship. It also argues for a third dimension of legitimacy where Romanian citizenship is conceived as normal and natural to acquire in Moldova.
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Quasi-citizenship as a category of practice: analyzing engagement with Russia’s Compatriot policy in Crimea
2017, Citizenship Studies [pdf] |
This article analyses engagement with Russia's Compatriot Policy in Crimea (in 2012 and 2013) by considering the Compatriot Policy as a case study of quasi-citizenship. The article focuses on practices of (quasi-)citizenship to explore how people conceive of themselves (or not) as Compatriots and engage with the policy.
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The Extra-Territorial Paradox of Voting: The Duty to Vote in Extra-Territorial Elections
2017, Democratization [pdf] |
This article applies an inductive approach to explore the duty of voting in extra-territorial elections. The case examines participation of new Romanian citizens in Moldova in Romanian extra-territorial elections.
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This article analyses UK media coverage (2006-2016) of Romanian citizenship restitution for Moldovan citizens to explore the puzzle of how acquisition of citizenship is framed as easy in contrast to the realities of acquisition, which are more challenging.
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Generating Data: Studying Identity Politics From a Bottom-Up Perspective in Crimea and Moldova
2015, East European Politics and Societies [pdf] |
This article argues that bottom-up, people-centered research which uses ethnographic and everyday approaches is crucial but underutilized in research on identity politics in Eastern Europe.
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What Does it Mean to be a Kin Majority? Analyzing Romanian identity in Moldova and Russian Identity in Crimea From Below
2015, Social Science Quarterly [pdf] |
This article investigates what kin identification means from a bottom-up perspective in two kin majority cases: Moldova and Crimea. The article analyses the complexities of the lived experience of kin identification for members of kin majorities and how this relates to kin-state identification and affiliation.
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Book Chapters
Identity in Crimea before annexation: A bottom-up perspective
- in Russia Before and After Crimea: Nationalism and Identity, 2010–17, Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud (Eds), Edinburgh University Press, 2018. [pdf]
- See discussions of the chapter here and here
Themed Sections
Nationalism and Belonging |
2017 in Nations and Nationalism
with articles from Bo Strath, William A. Callahan, and Alain Dieckhoff including Nationalism and belonging: introduction [pdf] |
Review Articles
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Everyday nationalism. A review of the literature
2015, Studies on National Movements |
This article reviews different approaches to everyday nationalism. The article explores what the 'everyday' means to scholars of everyday nationalism, as well as methods and critiques of everyday nationalism.
[open access] |