My work on the theory, methods, and history of sociology falls into two main areas.
On the one hand I have written about the sociology of regimes of engagement, the most sophisticated variety of French pragmatic sociology and to my mind one of the most important theoretical developments in sociology in recent decades. In addition to papers and book chapters that provide overviews of this sociological approach, I have also tried to contribute to its further development, e.g. by writing about emotional regimes or temporalities from the perspective of engagement sociology, and by theorizing a regime of exploration. Several of my papers in this field are in press or in progress, including two papers written jointly with Laura Centemeri, Andrew S. Hoffman, and Luca Pattaroni, and will be listed here once they are published. Jump to publications and videos.
On the other hand, I have published observations and critical reflections on the past and present of Russian sociology, the practice of doing sociological research in Russia, articulations between historical and sociological research on Soviet and Russian society, and the challenges of translating texts in the social sciences and humanities into or from Russian. I have put together several journal issues or clusters on these themes in addition to publishing a number of standalone papers and essays. Please note that a significant portion of my work in this area is not available in English, including a much-cited paper on the Levada school that exists in a German and a Russian version. Jump to publications.
The sociology of regimes of engagement
- Belarusian Protest: Regimes of Engagement and Coordination. Slavic Review. 2021. Vol. 80. No. 1. P. 27-37.
- Regimes of Engagement and Protest in Russia: A Reply to Arnold, Sidorkina, and Shevchenko. Nationalities Papers. Vol. 48. No. 2 (March) 2020. P. 414-418.
- Protest in Putin’s Russia. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the sociology of regimes of engagement, and most of the other chapters draw on or contribute to the framework. In particular, chapter 2 analyses emotional regimes from the perspective of engagement sociology (p. 67-74) and chapter 7 discusses the regime of exploration.
- Diesseits der Kremlmauern. Für einen anderen Blick auf die russländische Gesellschaft. Mittelweg 36. April/Mai 2017, S. 63-73.
Russian sociology / sociology in and on Russia
- Protest in Putin’s Russia. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. Chapter 7 (Cognitive Spaces of Protest, p. 195-220), especially the sections “Counting Protesters” and “Protesters and Explorers,” p. 201-213.
- Russlands Gesellschaft. Beilage zu: Mittelweg 36. Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung, April/Mai 2017, S. 63-94.
- Friends in the City? Research Routes after Russia’s Skinheads. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 3/2013, p. 164-168.
- The Russian Field: Views from Abroad (edited with Elena Bogdanova) / Русское поле: взгляд из-за рубежа (совместно с Еленой Богдановой). Special thematic issue of Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 1/2011, 242 p.
- Russian Sociology in Local and Global Context / Российская социология в локальном и глобальном контексте. Pilot issue of Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 1/2009, 320 p.
- The State of Russian Sociology Today. Footnotes (American Sociological Association), July-August 2009, vol. 37, no. 6.
- К дискуссии о теоретическом наследии Юрия Левады // Вестник общественного мнения. №4(96), июль-август 2008. С. 50-61.
- Wissenssoziologie statt Weihrauchschwenken. Selbstverschuldete Rezeptionshürden der Levada-Schule (NB. Der unnötig aggressive Titel stammt von der Redaktion, nicht von mir!). In: Osteuropa. 58. Jhg. Heft 2/2008. S. 33-51.
- Sprachwandel und Sinnstiftung: Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Übersetzungen in Russland. In: kultura 12/2006. S. 14-20.
- Spreading the New: Russian Translations in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In: kultura 12/2006. P. 13-17.
- Sovyetler Birliği sonrası Rusya’da çeviri trajedisi, in: Varlık, Ocak 2005, s. 80-84. (Türkçesi: Osman Deniztekin, Özlem Tezcek)
- Translation as tragedy and farce: The politics and politicians of translation in post-Soviet Russia. Eurozine, 19 January 2005.
- Спор о методах // Неприкосновенный запас №35 (2004).
- Nouvelles disciplines pour simples soldats et tireurs d’élite. In : Regard sur l’Est No. 31 (octobre – décembre 2002), pp. 29-31