Stagecraft in the service of statecraft? Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Pajala, Mari; Vuletic, Dean

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“…Supported by distinguished disability studies scholar Elena Iarskaia‐Smirnova, I entered grassroots organizing research through volunteering, and later moved to exploring public scandals on disability issues. I observed how political regimes in Russia and Belarus weaponized scandal cases to fuel propaganda and return gender and disability categories into the domain of “statehood” like it was in the Soviet past (e.g., Russia's strategic choice of a singer in a wheelchair Yulia Samoylova for participation in the “Eurovision” song contest in 2017 in Kyiv [Pajala & Vuletic, 2021]).…”

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Disability studies in war and care: How to do work otherwise? A conversation between anthropology‐and‐disability‐studies scholars in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Zaremba‐Kosovych,

Verbilovich,

Phillips

et al. 2024

Feminist Anthropology

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This piece weaves together the voices of four feminist disability studies scholars and anthropologists whose work has been profoundly shaped by Russia's war of aggression. Composed via a dialogic encounter, it is based on a panel presentation on the topic of disability studies in war and care that took place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst just before the 1‐year mark of the full‐scale invasion. We came together to share insights and consider the best ways to practice horizontal solidarity, our approach inspired by recent work on feminist epistemology and methodology and scholarship on care, and disability studies. The text assumes a dialogic form, presenting our reflections as well as the contexts that shape our knowledge production and sharing the process of scaffolding our “Dis‐Fem” conversation. In dialogue with the decolonizing discussions that animate feminist, anthropological, and Slavic Studies, as well as critical disability scholarship, it centers on the work of Ukrainian scholar‐activists associated with the organization of people with disabilities (OPD) Fight For Right. In foregrounding their work, it traces the creative ways they've mobilized data and the experimental and collaborative data practices they've harnessed. Finally, it asks questions about trans‐local solidarities we can enact and ways we might forge novel, “otherwise” ways to collaborate.

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Disability studies in war and care: How to do work otherwise? A conversation between anthropology‐and‐disability‐studies scholars in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Zaremba‐Kosovych,

Verbilovich,

Phillips

et al. 2024

Feminist Anthropology

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Taking Putin’s jokes seriously: what does gender-based humor tell us about Russia’s ontological insecurity, masculinity, and construction of gendered hierarchies?

Donskikh,

Akopov

2024

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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From ‘We Are Slavic’ To ‘My sister’s Crown’

Panea,

Pérez-Rufí

2024

revVISUAL

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Se analizan dos actuaciones del Festival de Eurovisión correspondientes a las candidaturas de Polonia y Chequia en las ediciones de 2014 y 2023 respectivamente. Ambas suscitan, tanto en su propuesta musical como escénica, un debate en relación a la identidad eslava femenina desde dos puntos de vista opuestos. Estas actuaciones, además, coinciden con dos momentos históricos cruciales en el ámbito eslavo a causa de las políticas expansionistas e identitarias del Kremlin. Compararemos así cómo los conceptos de sororidad y paneslavismo son representados desde sus propios actores (en este caso, las mujeres eslavas) en el contexto de los “media events”.

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Stagecraft in the service of statecraft? Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Disability studies in war and care: How to do work otherwise? A conversation between anthropology‐and‐disability‐studies scholars in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Disability studies in war and care: How to do work otherwise? A conversation between anthropology‐and‐disability‐studies scholars in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Taking Putin’s jokes seriously: what does gender-based humor tell us about Russia’s ontological insecurity, masculinity, and construction of gendered hierarchies?

From ‘We Are Slavic’ To ‘My sister’s Crown’

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