Alexander Sasha Kondakov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1128864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Sasha Kondakov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander Sasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kondakov |
| SIGNATURE | KONDAKOV A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
Sex, Alcohol, and Soul
This article is focused on a particular set of social relations in Russia: sexuality and violence in the context of consumption of alcohol. We look at how violence erupts after revelation of queer sexuality of one of the participants of collective drinking. Discussions of homosexuality in Russia became especially heated after the adoption of the bill against the "propaganda of non-traditional family values" in 2013. This law primarily marks infor…
Sex, Alcohol, and Soul
This article is focused on a particular set of social relations in Russia: sexuality and violence in the context of consumption of alcohol. We look at how violence erupts after revelation of queer sexuality of one of the participants of collective drinking. Discussions of homosexuality in Russia became especially heated after the adoption of the bill against the "propaganda of non-traditional family values" in 2013. This law primarily marks infor…
Sex, Alcohol, and Soul
This article is focused on a particular set of social relations in Russia: sexuality and violence in the context of consumption of alcohol. We look at how violence erupts after revelation of queer sexuality of one of the participants of collective drinking. Discussions of homosexuality in Russia became especially heated after the adoption of the bill against the "propaganda of non-traditional family values" in 2013. This law primarily marks infor…
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…
Politics (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Authoritarianism (1 work) · Censorship (1 work) · Conceptualization (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Critical discourse analysis (1 work)