Alexander Kondakov
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 669604 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexander Kondakov |
| NOMBRES | Alexander |
| APELLIDO | Kondakov |
| FIRMA | KONDAKOV A |
| AFILIACIONES | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0094-906X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Borrowed or Homegrown? Examining Russia’s Influence in Georgia’s Anti-Gender Politics
This article examines whether Georgia’s 2024 Law on Protecting Family Values and Minors represents a borrowed or homegrown form of anti-gender governance. It asks whether the measure reflects a similar Russian 2013 “gay propaganda” ban or represents a domestically constructed legislation. More broadly, it explores how the “family values” law functions as a symbolic technology of governance and as a signal of shifting geopolitical alignment. The s…
The Break-Free Trajectory
This article examines how queer topics were rendered unspeakable in the Soviet official public sphere through a case study of the magazine Ogonek (1923-1993). Drawing on Michel Foucault's conceptualization of silence as productive power, the study approaches it as a regime that authorizes specific ways of naming, framing, and feeling about prohibited subjects. Based on a corpus of Ogonek publications that mention queer topics, the analysis combin…
Queering Family Violence
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility
This article explores contexts where homosexuality is criminalized and looks at the methods which scholars use to study LGBT+ experiences there. It is based on an extensive literature review which demonstrates the range of methods employed in academic articles, presenting results from various countries that criminalize LGBT+ sexualities. Two research topics appear most prominently: HIV and LGBT+ activism. The article then turns to a critical anal…
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia
This article offers a critical view of progressive timeline that is a characteristic trait of composing LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans*) world maps and, in general, of thinking about queerness globally. I regard linear narratives of time as the manifestations of power that assign progress to the imagined ‘West’ and backwardness to the ‘East’. In this effort, I, therefore, advance critical scrutiny of spatio-temporal notion of progress, b…
Refugee Chronicles
The following text is an excerpt from The Refugee Chronicles , a fictional diary written by Evgeny Shtorn, poet and activist, from his experience of seeking asylum. Shtorn had to flee Russia due to the government's hostile policies toward both queer sexualities and political dissent right after he was interviewed by the Russian secret police FSB in 2018. The run for life and liberty brought him to the utmost end of Western Europe, Ireland. Shtorn…
Violence in Queer Families
Purpose This paper deals with criminal court cases of intimate partner violence in queer families (IPV) in Russia. It aims to uncover ways for these families to be recognized in law, even if only for the purposes of deciding cases of violence among LGBT + partners. Methods The study deploys methods of discourse analysis to uncover powers which produce the texts of court rulings. The article is based on close examination of nine cases of IPV occur…
Post-socialist Revolutions of Intimacy
Rethinking the sexual citizenship from queer and post-Soviet perspectives
In this article, I use the analysis of citizenship regimes and their revolutionary changes as a point of departure to offer an improvement of the notion of grassroots politics. The focus of the article is on queer citizenship as it evolved in alternative modernity that the USSR conditioned. Immediately after the October Revolution, the new government deliberately proclaimed a new sexual freedom and rearranged the material conditions of living in …
International Discussions of Homosexuality
lt;p>Homosexuality has recently become a matter of international politics. UNO General Secretary announced LGBT rights a global agenda and called for rejection of discriminatory laws in national legislatures. Former president of the USA supported widening of sexual citizenship by inclusion of same-sex couples. Similar tendencies have been demonstrated by the European Union countries. Yet, simultaneously, there are attempts to criminalize homosexu…
Configurations of Law
Current Gender and Sexuality Studies
Queer Coalitions
Migration policy in Russia is implemented by a variety of actors, such as state officials, market actors, and social activists. In the implementation of migration policy, they inevitably interact with one another. Having examined the categories used by the people involved in the implementation of migration policy, I explore the potential of coalition-building in this process. In order to scrutinise these fluid political forms, I make use of the c…
The Feminist Citizen-Subject
Teaching Queer Theory in Russia
The founder of Russian ‘sexology’ and the author of many controversial publications on homosexuality, Igor Kon, entitled his 2008 autobiography Eighty Years of Solitude . In this book, he expressed his deep feeling of intellectual isolation because of his commitment to the study of sexuality, a topic that was silenced in the USSR. Indeed, there were no conferences or workshops to attend, no colleagues to engage with in a fruitful conversation. On…
The Encyclopaedia of Justice
Review: Vadim Volkov, Arina Dmitrieva, Mikhail Pozdniakov, Kirill Titaev, Rossijskie sud’i: sociologicheskoe issledovanie professii [Russian Judges: A Sociological Study of Profession] (Moscow: Norma, 2015) (in Russian)
The Map of the Sociology of Law
Review: Pravo i pravoprimenenie v zerkale social'nyh nauk: hrestomatija sovremennyh tekstov[Law and Law Enforcement in the Mirror of Social Sciences: The Handbook of Recent Texts] edited by Ella Paneyakh (Moscow: Statut, 2014) (in Russian)
The Uncomfortable Law
This article explores the conceptual bases of civil law in Russia by employing the method of deconstruction. The main aim of the analysis is to uncover a particular configuration of power that is reproduced in the text of the Civil Code. As a point of departure, a review of theoretical assumptions of civil law is introduced from the sociology of law perspective. In order to contextualize idealistic conceptions of law, this article draws on materi…
Generational analysis of solitude
Поколенческий анализ одиночества [рец. на кн.: Кон И.С. 80 лет одиночества. М.: Время, 2008]
The Silenced Citizens of Russia
This article draws attention to how citizenship, informed by heteronormativity, is represented in politics, judiciary and public social practices in Russia. I argue that the observed discursive reality affects construction of heteronormative citizenship that restricts full inclusion of lesbians and gay men via silencing. The ideas of the article are taken from literature on citizenship and two empirical research studies that I conducted in 2010 a…
Resisting the Silence
In the new, post-Soviet Russia, some people have been excluded from the possibility of possessing human rights based on different identity claims. Lesbians and gay men are among those who are excluded. Though in some states the mechanism of this is manifestly inscribed in the law, in Russia the mechanism is hidden in the field of silence: the field of discourse on homosexuality is full of lacunas. While the most productive speakers are certainly …
The Silenced Citizens of Russia
This article draws attention to how citizenship, informed by heteronormativity, is represented in politics, judiciary and public social practices in Russia. I argue that the observed discursive reality affects construction of heteronormative citizenship that restricts full inclusion of lesbians and gay men via silencing. The ideas of the article are taken from literature on citizenship and two empirical research studies that I conducted in 2010 a…
Resisting the Silence
In the new, post-Soviet Russia, some people have been excluded from the possibility of possessing human rights based on different identity claims. Lesbians and gay men are among those who are excluded. Though in some states the mechanism of this is manifestly inscribed in the law, in Russia the mechanism is hidden in the field of silence: the field of discourse on homosexuality is full of lacunas. While the most productive speakers are certainly …
Post-socialist Revolutions of Intimacy
Refugee Chronicles
The following text is an excerpt from The Refugee Chronicles , a fictional diary written by Evgeny Shtorn, poet and activist, from his experience of seeking asylum. Shtorn had to flee Russia due to the government's hostile policies toward both queer sexualities and political dissent right after he was interviewed by the Russian secret police FSB in 2018. The run for life and liberty brought him to the utmost end of Western Europe, Ireland. Shtorn…
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility
This article explores contexts where homosexuality is criminalized and looks at the methods which scholars use to study LGBT+ experiences there. It is based on an extensive literature review which demonstrates the range of methods employed in academic articles, presenting results from various countries that criminalize LGBT+ sexualities. Two research topics appear most prominently: HIV and LGBT+ activism. The article then turns to a critical anal…
Violence in Queer Families
Purpose This paper deals with criminal court cases of intimate partner violence in queer families (IPV) in Russia. It aims to uncover ways for these families to be recognized in law, even if only for the purposes of deciding cases of violence among LGBT + partners. Methods The study deploys methods of discourse analysis to uncover powers which produce the texts of court rulings. The article is based on close examination of nine cases of IPV occur…
Queer Coalitions
Migration policy in Russia is implemented by a variety of actors, such as state officials, market actors, and social activists. In the implementation of migration policy, they inevitably interact with one another. Having examined the categories used by the people involved in the implementation of migration policy, I explore the potential of coalition-building in this process. In order to scrutinise these fluid political forms, I make use of the c…
The Feminist Citizen-Subject
Teaching Queer Theory in Russia
The founder of Russian ‘sexology’ and the author of many controversial publications on homosexuality, Igor Kon, entitled his 2008 autobiography Eighty Years of Solitude . In this book, he expressed his deep feeling of intellectual isolation because of his commitment to the study of sexuality, a topic that was silenced in the USSR. Indeed, there were no conferences or workshops to attend, no colleagues to engage with in a fruitful conversation. On…
The Silenced Citizens of Russia
This article draws attention to how citizenship, informed by heteronormativity, is represented in politics, judiciary and public social practices in Russia. I argue that the observed discursive reality affects construction of heteronormative citizenship that restricts full inclusion of lesbians and gay men via silencing. The ideas of the article are taken from literature on citizenship and two empirical research studies that I conducted in 2010 a…
Resisting the Silence
In the new, post-Soviet Russia, some people have been excluded from the possibility of possessing human rights based on different identity claims. Lesbians and gay men are among those who are excluded. Though in some states the mechanism of this is manifestly inscribed in the law, in Russia the mechanism is hidden in the field of silence: the field of discourse on homosexuality is full of lacunas. While the most productive speakers are certainly …
Generational analysis of solitude
Поколенческий анализ одиночества [рец. на кн.: Кон И.С. 80 лет одиночества. М.: Время, 2008]
The Map of the Sociology of Law
Review: Pravo i pravoprimenenie v zerkale social'nyh nauk: hrestomatija sovremennyh tekstov[Law and Law Enforcement in the Mirror of Social Sciences: The Handbook of Recent Texts] edited by Ella Paneyakh (Moscow: Statut, 2014) (in Russian)
The Uncomfortable Law
This article explores the conceptual bases of civil law in Russia by employing the method of deconstruction. The main aim of the analysis is to uncover a particular configuration of power that is reproduced in the text of the Civil Code. As a point of departure, a review of theoretical assumptions of civil law is introduced from the sociology of law perspective. In order to contextualize idealistic conceptions of law, this article draws on materi…
Teaching Queer Theory in Russia
The founder of Russian ‘sexology’ and the author of many controversial publications on homosexuality, Igor Kon, entitled his 2008 autobiography Eighty Years of Solitude . In this book, he expressed his deep feeling of intellectual isolation because of his commitment to the study of sexuality, a topic that was silenced in the USSR. Indeed, there were no conferences or workshops to attend, no colleagues to engage with in a fruitful conversation. On…
The Encyclopaedia of Justice
Review: Vadim Volkov, Arina Dmitrieva, Mikhail Pozdniakov, Kirill Titaev, Rossijskie sud’i: sociologicheskoe issledovanie professii [Russian Judges: A Sociological Study of Profession] (Moscow: Norma, 2015) (in Russian)
Configurations of Law
Current Gender and Sexuality Studies
Queer Coalitions
Migration policy in Russia is implemented by a variety of actors, such as state officials, market actors, and social activists. In the implementation of migration policy, they inevitably interact with one another. Having examined the categories used by the people involved in the implementation of migration policy, I explore the potential of coalition-building in this process. In order to scrutinise these fluid political forms, I make use of the c…
The Feminist Citizen-Subject
International Discussions of Homosexuality
lt;p>Homosexuality has recently become a matter of international politics. UNO General Secretary announced LGBT rights a global agenda and called for rejection of discriminatory laws in national legislatures. Former president of the USA supported widening of sexual citizenship by inclusion of same-sex couples. Similar tendencies have been demonstrated by the European Union countries. Yet, simultaneously, there are attempts to criminalize homosexu…
Rethinking the sexual citizenship from queer and post-Soviet perspectives
In this article, I use the analysis of citizenship regimes and their revolutionary changes as a point of departure to offer an improvement of the notion of grassroots politics. The focus of the article is on queer citizenship as it evolved in alternative modernity that the USSR conditioned. Immediately after the October Revolution, the new government deliberately proclaimed a new sexual freedom and rearranged the material conditions of living in …
Post-socialist Revolutions of Intimacy
Challenging the logic of progressive timeline, queering LGBT successes and failures in Ireland and Russia
This article offers a critical view of progressive timeline that is a characteristic trait of composing LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans*) world maps and, in general, of thinking about queerness globally. I regard linear narratives of time as the manifestations of power that assign progress to the imagined ‘West’ and backwardness to the ‘East’. In this effort, I, therefore, advance critical scrutiny of spatio-temporal notion of progress, b…
Refugee Chronicles
The following text is an excerpt from The Refugee Chronicles , a fictional diary written by Evgeny Shtorn, poet and activist, from his experience of seeking asylum. Shtorn had to flee Russia due to the government's hostile policies toward both queer sexualities and political dissent right after he was interviewed by the Russian secret police FSB in 2018. The run for life and liberty brought him to the utmost end of Western Europe, Ireland. Shtorn…
Violence in Queer Families
Purpose This paper deals with criminal court cases of intimate partner violence in queer families (IPV) in Russia. It aims to uncover ways for these families to be recognized in law, even if only for the purposes of deciding cases of violence among LGBT + partners. Methods The study deploys methods of discourse analysis to uncover powers which produce the texts of court rulings. The article is based on close examination of nine cases of IPV occur…
Queering Family Violence
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility
This article explores contexts where homosexuality is criminalized and looks at the methods which scholars use to study LGBT+ experiences there. It is based on an extensive literature review which demonstrates the range of methods employed in academic articles, presenting results from various countries that criminalize LGBT+ sexualities. Two research topics appear most prominently: HIV and LGBT+ activism. The article then turns to a critical anal…
Borrowed or Homegrown? Examining Russia’s Influence in Georgia’s Anti-Gender Politics
This article examines whether Georgia’s 2024 Law on Protecting Family Values and Minors represents a borrowed or homegrown form of anti-gender governance. It asks whether the measure reflects a similar Russian 2013 “gay propaganda” ban or represents a domestically constructed legislation. More broadly, it explores how the “family values” law functions as a symbolic technology of governance and as a signal of shifting geopolitical alignment. The s…
The Break-Free Trajectory
This article examines how queer topics were rendered unspeakable in the Soviet official public sphere through a case study of the magazine Ogonek (1923-1993). Drawing on Michel Foucault's conceptualization of silence as productive power, the study approaches it as a regime that authorizes specific ways of naming, framing, and feeling about prohibited subjects. Based on a corpus of Ogonek publications that mention queer topics, the analysis combin…
Political science (15 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Human sexuality (9 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Queer (8 obras)