Liliana Riga
Biographic Data
| ID | 252234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liliana Riga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liliana |
| FAMILY NAME | Riga |
| SIGNATURE | RIGA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2819-3110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Art, refugeedom and the aesthetic encounter
Arek Dakessian - ORCID: 0000-0001-7792-6862 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-6862
Theorizing refugeedom
Refugees can be formed as 'subjects' as they navigate forced displacement in countries that are not their own. In particular, everyday life as the politicized Other, and as humanitarianism's depoliticized beneficiary, can constitute them as political subjects. Understanding these produced subjects and subjectivities leads us to conceive of forced displacement - or 'refugeedom' - as a human condition or experience of political (sub)alterity, withi…
Grounded Nationalisms' political grounding
This commentary argues that Grounded Nationalisms is both empirically and theoretically sophisticated, not least for showing substantively how nationalism has become a crucial form of modern subjectivity. This argument is suggestive, too, for understanding how this subject/ivity is underpinned by nationalism’s political – not economic or developmental – functionalism in the modern era. Yet there is still great scope for better grasping the critic…
Jewish conditions, theories of nationalism
Thinkers with Jewish backgrounds contributed powerfully to our understanding of nationalism. We examine the different Jewish conditions in East Central Europe and Russia at the end of the nineteenth and at the start of the twentieth century so as to map the theories of nationalism that resulted. Four such theories are identified, each illustrated with reference to particular thinkers
Ethnic Cleansing, History of
Ernest Gellner and the land of the Soviets
Ernest Gellner's many writings on the Soviet socialist project sought to come to terms with one of the key sociological and ideological arcs of the 20th century: the rise and fall of a utopian experiment, one that for some served as a kind of proof of principle, whose modern intellectual origins were more than 170 years old at the time of its demise. Gellner loved Russia and spent much time there. And he engaged with its 20th century very deeply,…
A Liberal Route from Homogeneity
This article explores how key US policymakers’ understandings of nationalism contributed to core tensions in Bosnia's Dayton Peace Accords. Drawing on in-depth interviews with some of Dayton's key architects, our findings suggest that US elites drew on a cluster of entwined social knowledge claims about (ethnic) nationalism and the possibility of its liberal accommodation.
To Build a Notion
This article offers a contribution to the sociology of social science knowledge practices and expertise through the empirical lens of US nation building policies. Drawing on archival materials, including the State Department's Freedom of Information Act documents, and interviews with key policymakers we offer a comparative historical sociology of the US State Department as a site of nation building knowledge and expertise. In examining the evolvi…
The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire
This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that underlay their class universalism. It suggests that imperial polici…
Putting Cruelty First
This article contributes to an understanding of the role of agency in a sociology of human rights by examining how a small group of individuals interpreted, defined, and instantiated 'hard' human rights, or those atrocities associated with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Using political theorist Judith Shklar's perpetrator-focused framework of 'putting the prevention of cruelty first', we explore the role of agency in the construction of …
Sinisa Malešević, The Sociology of War and Violence
Tolerant majorities, loyal minorities and ‘ethnic reversals
The 1919 Versailles Peace Conference created new states in East Central Europe (ECE), but the imperfect implementation of the ‘one nation, one state’ formula resulted in more than twenty‐five million ‘unassimilable’ minorities. With the introduction of majoritarian democracy, this gave rise to what we term ‘ethnic reversals’: ‘formally dominant majorities’ suffered status decline, while previously ‘minoritised majorities’ found new political powe…
The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism
This article retrieves the ethnic roots that underlie a universalist class ideology. Focusing empirically on the emergence of Bolshevism, it provides biographical analysis of the Russian Revolution's elite, finding that two-thirds were ethnic minorities from across the Russian Empire. After exploring class and ethnicity as intersectional experiences of varying significance to the Bolsheviks' revolutionary politics, this article suggests that soci…
Reconciling Nation and Class in Imperial Borderlands
This article interprets the biographies of Polish Bolshevik revolutionaries, Feliks Dzierżyński and Karl Radek, in an attempt to concretize socialism's “nationalities problem” in two exceptional, but emblematic, identities of the fin‐de‐siècle socialist movement. It situates their internationalism against the sociology of nationalism in multiethnic imperial borderlands. It argues that the appeal of socialist internationalism was contingent on the…
Ethnonationalism, Assimilation, and the Social Worlds of the Jewish Bolsheviks in Fin de Siècle Tsarist Russia
This article offers biographical sketches of the Jewish members of the Bolshevik revolutionary élite. It explores how their commitments to socialist universalism and eventual identification with Bolshevism were influenced by experiences and identities as Jews in fin de siècle Tsarist Russia. Situating them within a comparative historical sociology of ethnicity and identity across the Empire, I consider the ways in which ambiguities of assimilatio…
Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia
Tolerant majorities, loyal minorities and ‘ethnic reversals
The 1919 Versailles Peace Conference created new states in East Central Europe (ECE), but the imperfect implementation of the ‘one nation, one state’ formula resulted in more than twenty‐five million ‘unassimilable’ minorities. With the introduction of majoritarian democracy, this gave rise to what we term ‘ethnic reversals’: ‘formally dominant majorities’ suffered status decline, while previously ‘minoritised majorities’ found new political powe…
To Build a Notion
This article offers a contribution to the sociology of social science knowledge practices and expertise through the empirical lens of US nation building policies. Drawing on archival materials, including the State Department's Freedom of Information Act documents, and interviews with key policymakers we offer a comparative historical sociology of the US State Department as a site of nation building knowledge and expertise. In examining the evolvi…
Theorizing refugeedom
Refugees can be formed as 'subjects' as they navigate forced displacement in countries that are not their own. In particular, everyday life as the politicized Other, and as humanitarianism's depoliticized beneficiary, can constitute them as political subjects. Understanding these produced subjects and subjectivities leads us to conceive of forced displacement - or 'refugeedom' - as a human condition or experience of political (sub)alterity, withi…
The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism
This article retrieves the ethnic roots that underlie a universalist class ideology. Focusing empirically on the emergence of Bolshevism, it provides biographical analysis of the Russian Revolution's elite, finding that two-thirds were ethnic minorities from across the Russian Empire. After exploring class and ethnicity as intersectional experiences of varying significance to the Bolsheviks' revolutionary politics, this article suggests that soci…
Jewish conditions, theories of nationalism
Thinkers with Jewish backgrounds contributed powerfully to our understanding of nationalism. We examine the different Jewish conditions in East Central Europe and Russia at the end of the nineteenth and at the start of the twentieth century so as to map the theories of nationalism that resulted. Four such theories are identified, each illustrated with reference to particular thinkers
Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia
Art, refugeedom and the aesthetic encounter
Arek Dakessian - ORCID: 0000-0001-7792-6862 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-6862
A Liberal Route from Homogeneity
This article explores how key US policymakers’ understandings of nationalism contributed to core tensions in Bosnia's Dayton Peace Accords. Drawing on in-depth interviews with some of Dayton's key architects, our findings suggest that US elites drew on a cluster of entwined social knowledge claims about (ethnic) nationalism and the possibility of its liberal accommodation.
Ethnonationalism, Assimilation, and the Social Worlds of the Jewish Bolsheviks in Fin de Siècle Tsarist Russia
This article offers biographical sketches of the Jewish members of the Bolshevik revolutionary élite. It explores how their commitments to socialist universalism and eventual identification with Bolshevism were influenced by experiences and identities as Jews in fin de siècle Tsarist Russia. Situating them within a comparative historical sociology of ethnicity and identity across the Empire, I consider the ways in which ambiguities of assimilatio…
Nation-Building and Common Values in Russia
Reconciling Nation and Class in Imperial Borderlands
This article interprets the biographies of Polish Bolshevik revolutionaries, Feliks Dzierżyński and Karl Radek, in an attempt to concretize socialism's “nationalities problem” in two exceptional, but emblematic, identities of the fin‐de‐siècle socialist movement. It situates their internationalism against the sociology of nationalism in multiethnic imperial borderlands. It argues that the appeal of socialist internationalism was contingent on the…
Ethnonationalism, Assimilation, and the Social Worlds of the Jewish Bolsheviks in Fin de Siècle Tsarist Russia
This article offers biographical sketches of the Jewish members of the Bolshevik revolutionary élite. It explores how their commitments to socialist universalism and eventual identification with Bolshevism were influenced by experiences and identities as Jews in fin de siècle Tsarist Russia. Situating them within a comparative historical sociology of ethnicity and identity across the Empire, I consider the ways in which ambiguities of assimilatio…
The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism
This article retrieves the ethnic roots that underlie a universalist class ideology. Focusing empirically on the emergence of Bolshevism, it provides biographical analysis of the Russian Revolution's elite, finding that two-thirds were ethnic minorities from across the Russian Empire. After exploring class and ethnicity as intersectional experiences of varying significance to the Bolsheviks' revolutionary politics, this article suggests that soci…
Tolerant majorities, loyal minorities and ‘ethnic reversals
The 1919 Versailles Peace Conference created new states in East Central Europe (ECE), but the imperfect implementation of the ‘one nation, one state’ formula resulted in more than twenty‐five million ‘unassimilable’ minorities. With the introduction of majoritarian democracy, this gave rise to what we term ‘ethnic reversals’: ‘formally dominant majorities’ suffered status decline, while previously ‘minoritised majorities’ found new political powe…
Sinisa Malešević, The Sociology of War and Violence
The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire
This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that underlay their class universalism. It suggests that imperial polici…
Putting Cruelty First
This article contributes to an understanding of the role of agency in a sociology of human rights by examining how a small group of individuals interpreted, defined, and instantiated 'hard' human rights, or those atrocities associated with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Using political theorist Judith Shklar's perpetrator-focused framework of 'putting the prevention of cruelty first', we explore the role of agency in the construction of …
A Liberal Route from Homogeneity
This article explores how key US policymakers’ understandings of nationalism contributed to core tensions in Bosnia's Dayton Peace Accords. Drawing on in-depth interviews with some of Dayton's key architects, our findings suggest that US elites drew on a cluster of entwined social knowledge claims about (ethnic) nationalism and the possibility of its liberal accommodation.
To Build a Notion
This article offers a contribution to the sociology of social science knowledge practices and expertise through the empirical lens of US nation building policies. Drawing on archival materials, including the State Department's Freedom of Information Act documents, and interviews with key policymakers we offer a comparative historical sociology of the US State Department as a site of nation building knowledge and expertise. In examining the evolvi…
Ethnic Cleansing, History of
Ernest Gellner and the land of the Soviets
Ernest Gellner's many writings on the Soviet socialist project sought to come to terms with one of the key sociological and ideological arcs of the 20th century: the rise and fall of a utopian experiment, one that for some served as a kind of proof of principle, whose modern intellectual origins were more than 170 years old at the time of its demise. Gellner loved Russia and spent much time there. And he engaged with its 20th century very deeply,…
Jewish conditions, theories of nationalism
Thinkers with Jewish backgrounds contributed powerfully to our understanding of nationalism. We examine the different Jewish conditions in East Central Europe and Russia at the end of the nineteenth and at the start of the twentieth century so as to map the theories of nationalism that resulted. Four such theories are identified, each illustrated with reference to particular thinkers
Grounded Nationalisms' political grounding
This commentary argues that Grounded Nationalisms is both empirically and theoretically sophisticated, not least for showing substantively how nationalism has become a crucial form of modern subjectivity. This argument is suggestive, too, for understanding how this subject/ivity is underpinned by nationalism’s political – not economic or developmental – functionalism in the modern era. Yet there is still great scope for better grasping the critic…
Theorizing refugeedom
Refugees can be formed as 'subjects' as they navigate forced displacement in countries that are not their own. In particular, everyday life as the politicized Other, and as humanitarianism's depoliticized beneficiary, can constitute them as political subjects. Understanding these produced subjects and subjectivities leads us to conceive of forced displacement - or 'refugeedom' - as a human condition or experience of political (sub)alterity, withi…
Art, refugeedom and the aesthetic encounter
Arek Dakessian - ORCID: 0000-0001-7792-6862 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-6862
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Soviet and Russian History (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · History (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)