Elizaveta Gaufman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizaveta Gaufman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizaveta |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaufman |
| SIGNATURE | GAUFMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2152-7966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“The Last White Country”
While government crackdown on far-right groups that did not align with the Kremlin following the annexation of Crimea resulted in several waves of fragmentation, the Russian far-right has maintained notable characteristics that are significant in the context of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine since 2022. For instance, unlike most far-right groups in the US and Europe, the Russian far-right often co-opts Islamist ideology in their anti-Western …
The Trump Carnival
Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency represented a radical departure from political norms that are often classified by media and researchers as ‘populist’. Instead, this book theorizes Trump’s campaign and presidency with reference to Mikhail Bakhtin’s "carnival" – a medieval festival of transgression, ridicule, and renewal. In this book, Lisa Gaufman and Bharath Ganesh provide a closer insight into the Trump Carnival, developing interdisciplin…
F*** tha police!” à la Russe
The nationwide prominence of Russian oppositional artists has inspired a fair number of studies analyzing the political aspects of their creative output. We argue that the new generation of Russian musicians, whose art became popular in the end of 2010s, brings political engagement to a qualitatively new level. Following Jacques Rancière, we reject the assumption that critical art can bring about political mobilization by exposing social evils. I…
Everyday foreign policy
This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars, diplomacy, soft power and great power competition.
Damsels in distress
The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that Russian political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least since 2013. Apart from accusing Ukraine of being a Neo-Nazi state, pro-Kremlin commentators have espoused a heavily gendered rhetoric describing Ukraine as a loose woman in need of saving by its older brother. Gendered discourse was instrumentalized in Russ…
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections
Although there is widespread agreement in the literature that the media play an instrumental role in furthering or limiting the spread of right-wing populism, there are few studies that examine the micro-mechanisms at play that facilitate the normalisation of the far right in and by the media. This contribution seeks to redress that gap. Focussing in particular on the Netherlands, we trace the ways in which the media have accommodated populist ra…
The gendered iconography of the Belarus protest
Eating Identity
While everyday high-level practices have become an important area of study in foreign policy research, the every day of every (wo)man has been overlooked both in theoretical and empirical conceptualizations. Building on feminist, sociological, and ethnographic research, this article argues that everyday foreign policy is an assemblage—a combination of physical and cultural practices that inhabit digital and bodily spaces. Following the feminist c…
Between a liberal and a hard place
Forum response by Elizaveta Gaufman, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, to the abridged IMEMO report 2020
Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
Pandemics and other crisis situations result in unsettled times, or ontologically insecure moments when social and political institutions are in flux. During such crises, the ordinary and unnoticed routines that structure everyday life are thrust into the spotlight as people struggle to maintain or recreate a sense of normalcy. Drawing on a range of cases including China, Russia, the UK, and USA, we examine three categories of everyday practice d…
Television News and Public Opinion
Many social scientists are debating these days whether their countries are vulnerable to Russian propaganda or whether the alleged superpower of Russia’s state media is not overestimated. Is Russia
The Trump carnival
This article argues that a Russian analytical paradigm of carnival culture can help explain the successful presidential campaign of President Donald J. Trump. Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin developed the notion of carnival culture while analyzing Francois Rabelais' work and its connection to the popular culture of Renaissance. Carnival ethos stood in opposition to the 'official' and 'serious' church sanctioned and feudal …
Putin’s Pastorate
In this article, I argue that Foucauldian concept of pastorate is an appropriate tool to analyze power relations in authoritarian contexts, as it takes into consideration different ways authoritarian system manifests itself. Following Carrette, this article proposed translation of pastorate through four indicators: (1) references to transborder sovereignty, (2) securitization discourse, (3) direct involvement, and (4) sexualization of the figure …
Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
Pandemics and other crisis situations result in unsettled times, or ontologically insecure moments when social and political institutions are in flux. During such crises, the ordinary and unnoticed routines that structure everyday life are thrust into the spotlight as people struggle to maintain or recreate a sense of normalcy. Drawing on a range of cases including China, Russia, the UK, and USA, we examine three categories of everyday practice d…
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections
Although there is widespread agreement in the literature that the media play an instrumental role in furthering or limiting the spread of right-wing populism, there are few studies that examine the micro-mechanisms at play that facilitate the normalisation of the far right in and by the media. This contribution seeks to redress that gap. Focussing in particular on the Netherlands, we trace the ways in which the media have accommodated populist ra…
The Trump carnival
This article argues that a Russian analytical paradigm of carnival culture can help explain the successful presidential campaign of President Donald J. Trump. Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin developed the notion of carnival culture while analyzing Francois Rabelais' work and its connection to the popular culture of Renaissance. Carnival ethos stood in opposition to the 'official' and 'serious' church sanctioned and feudal …
Damsels in distress
The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that Russian political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least since 2013. Apart from accusing Ukraine of being a Neo-Nazi state, pro-Kremlin commentators have espoused a heavily gendered rhetoric describing Ukraine as a loose woman in need of saving by its older brother. Gendered discourse was instrumentalized in Russ…
The gendered iconography of the Belarus protest
Eating Identity
While everyday high-level practices have become an important area of study in foreign policy research, the every day of every (wo)man has been overlooked both in theoretical and empirical conceptualizations. Building on feminist, sociological, and ethnographic research, this article argues that everyday foreign policy is an assemblage—a combination of physical and cultural practices that inhabit digital and bodily spaces. Following the feminist c…
F*** tha police!” à la Russe
The nationwide prominence of Russian oppositional artists has inspired a fair number of studies analyzing the political aspects of their creative output. We argue that the new generation of Russian musicians, whose art became popular in the end of 2010s, brings political engagement to a qualitatively new level. Following Jacques Rancière, we reject the assumption that critical art can bring about political mobilization by exposing social evils. I…
Putin’s Pastorate
In this article, I argue that Foucauldian concept of pastorate is an appropriate tool to analyze power relations in authoritarian contexts, as it takes into consideration different ways authoritarian system manifests itself. Following Carrette, this article proposed translation of pastorate through four indicators: (1) references to transborder sovereignty, (2) securitization discourse, (3) direct involvement, and (4) sexualization of the figure …
Putin’s Pastorate
In this article, I argue that Foucauldian concept of pastorate is an appropriate tool to analyze power relations in authoritarian contexts, as it takes into consideration different ways authoritarian system manifests itself. Following Carrette, this article proposed translation of pastorate through four indicators: (1) references to transborder sovereignty, (2) securitization discourse, (3) direct involvement, and (4) sexualization of the figure …
Television News and Public Opinion
Many social scientists are debating these days whether their countries are vulnerable to Russian propaganda or whether the alleged superpower of Russia’s state media is not overestimated. Is Russia
The Trump carnival
This article argues that a Russian analytical paradigm of carnival culture can help explain the successful presidential campaign of President Donald J. Trump. Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin developed the notion of carnival culture while analyzing Francois Rabelais' work and its connection to the popular culture of Renaissance. Carnival ethos stood in opposition to the 'official' and 'serious' church sanctioned and feudal …
Between a liberal and a hard place
Forum response by Elizaveta Gaufman, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, to the abridged IMEMO report 2020
Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
Pandemics and other crisis situations result in unsettled times, or ontologically insecure moments when social and political institutions are in flux. During such crises, the ordinary and unnoticed routines that structure everyday life are thrust into the spotlight as people struggle to maintain or recreate a sense of normalcy. Drawing on a range of cases including China, Russia, the UK, and USA, we examine three categories of everyday practice d…
The gendered iconography of the Belarus protest
Eating Identity
While everyday high-level practices have become an important area of study in foreign policy research, the every day of every (wo)man has been overlooked both in theoretical and empirical conceptualizations. Building on feminist, sociological, and ethnographic research, this article argues that everyday foreign policy is an assemblage—a combination of physical and cultural practices that inhabit digital and bodily spaces. Following the feminist c…
Damsels in distress
The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that Russian political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least since 2013. Apart from accusing Ukraine of being a Neo-Nazi state, pro-Kremlin commentators have espoused a heavily gendered rhetoric describing Ukraine as a loose woman in need of saving by its older brother. Gendered discourse was instrumentalized in Russ…
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections
Although there is widespread agreement in the literature that the media play an instrumental role in furthering or limiting the spread of right-wing populism, there are few studies that examine the micro-mechanisms at play that facilitate the normalisation of the far right in and by the media. This contribution seeks to redress that gap. Focussing in particular on the Netherlands, we trace the ways in which the media have accommodated populist ra…
Everyday foreign policy
This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars, diplomacy, soft power and great power competition.
The Trump Carnival
Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency represented a radical departure from political norms that are often classified by media and researchers as ‘populist’. Instead, this book theorizes Trump’s campaign and presidency with reference to Mikhail Bakhtin’s "carnival" – a medieval festival of transgression, ridicule, and renewal. In this book, Lisa Gaufman and Bharath Ganesh provide a closer insight into the Trump Carnival, developing interdisciplin…
F*** tha police!” à la Russe
The nationwide prominence of Russian oppositional artists has inspired a fair number of studies analyzing the political aspects of their creative output. We argue that the new generation of Russian musicians, whose art became popular in the end of 2010s, brings political engagement to a qualitatively new level. Following Jacques Rancière, we reject the assumption that critical art can bring about political mobilization by exposing social evils. I…
“The Last White Country”
While government crackdown on far-right groups that did not align with the Kremlin following the annexation of Crimea resulted in several waves of fragmentation, the Russian far-right has maintained notable characteristics that are significant in the context of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine since 2022. For instance, unlike most far-right groups in the US and Europe, the Russian far-right often co-opts Islamist ideology in their anti-Western …
Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works)