Daria Krivonos
Biographic Data
| ID | 260425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daria Krivonos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daria |
| FAMILY NAME | Krivonos |
| SIGNATURE | KRIVONOS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1393-1464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Urban marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers' care and work in Warsaw after 2022
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among young Ukrainian nationals in Warsaw from 2020 to 2023, the article examines how the labour of social reproduction is placed on Ukrainian migrant workers, who are confronted with the responsibility of ensuring care for their families and communities in the context of forced displacement. The analysis puts the concept of 'crisis ordinariness' in dialogue with social reproduction feminism to offer the 'ordinar…
Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy
In this article, we analyse the social reproduction of post‐Soviet migrant labour. Our inquiry builds on artwork by Olga Jitlina and Anna Tereshkina and by Mahpora Kiromova dealing with the effects of migration on family relations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We have braided the artwork with strands of social reproduction theory to examine the transnational household as a set of relationships that enables post‐Soviet and global capital…
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw
The opening up of sociology to postcolonial and critical race thinking has been predominantly animated by the relations between western metropoles and their (post)colonies. ‘Eastern Europe’ seems to be an uneasy fit in this discussion, being excluded from the idea of ‘Europe’; at the same time, it is not grouped together with non-European Others in terms of colonial histories. Drawing on fieldwork among young Russian and Ukrainian migrant workers…
Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw
Drawing on fieldwork among young among post-Soviet migrants in Helsinki (2014-2016) and Warsaw (2020), the article seeks an answer to the following question: what kind of work does racialisation of Eastern European migrant workers accomplish? The paper analyses young post-Soviet migrants’ position within the structures of racial capitalism in Europe, thus, shifting the focus from race as located in the body towards racialised positionings within …
Uncommon Sense: Security, with Daria Krivonos [Audio podcast episode]
Vuosi, jolloin kaikki muuttui ja kaikki pysyi ennallaan: Elämää ylläpitävä työ ja voitontavoittelu Covid-19 pandemian aikana
What Makes Middle‐aged Ukrainian Women into “Soviet” Babushki
Escaping a migrant metropolis: Post-Soviet urbanization through the art project Nasreddin in Russia
This article narrates the politics of escape from borders and labour discipline in a post-Soviet migrant metropolis drawing on the art-activism project Nasreddin in Russia. It explores the relation between control and autonomy in urban migrations through a trans-aesthetics: a set of visual and verbal stories weaving together experiences and outcomes of the art project with academic debates on late capitalist urbanization. The encounter of artisti…
Swedish surnames, British accents: Passing among post-Soviet migrants in Helsinki
In analysing efforts to pass as white, this article examines the ways racialized difference materializes on the bodies construed as "Eastern European". Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Russian-speaking migrants in Helsinki, it examines their attempts to inhabit whiteness through tactics of passing, such as changing their surnames, working on their accents, and adjusting how they dress. I argue that these efforts to pass as not "Russian" sh…
Human capitalisation in activation: Investing in the bodies, selves and skills of unemployed youth in Finland
This article analyses how processes of ‘human capitalisation’ work in various labour-market activation services aimed at young people in Finland. Drawing on multi-site ethnographic research on activating workshops, public employment services, and career counselling for youth in the Helsinki metropolitan region of Finland in 2014–2016, we trace sites and instances of human capitalisation. Capturing processes through which previously non-economic a…
Imagining the 'West' in the Context of Global Coloniality: The Case of Post-Soviet Youth Migration to Finland
The article argues that the post-Soviet youth construct their migratory projects as an effort towards social distinction vis-a-vis post-socialist imaginary. We argue that their migration can be understood as a search for distinctiveness and for what is perceived as a 'better', that is, more western, lifestyle. Analysing their narratives through the prism of imagination, we demonstrate how young Russian-speakers vision the position of the post-soc…
The making of gendered 'migrant workers' in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland
The article focuses on young Russian-speaking migrants' day-to-day institutional encounters with labour market activation policies in Finland. The analysis contributes to the discussion on labour activation through analysing the workings of gender, migration and racialisation in welfare encounters through ethnographically grounded research. The argument of the article is two-fold. First, it argues that migrant and racialised minority populations …
Smashing containers, queering the international through collaging
This article explores the potential of collage epistemology to cultivate queer intellectual curiosity about international relations. It argues that collaging and queering share many points of departure: in both, objects are taken from their conventional contexts and assembled into new relational constellations. The article draws from pedagogical work where collages were used in university teaching on the politics of gender and sexuality. A set of…
Claims to whiteness: Young unemployed Russian-speakers' declassificatory struggles in Finland
This article analyses the position of young unemployed Russian-speaking migrants in Finland as being both racialised and racialising Others. Young Russian-speakers' claims to whiteness are analysed against the backdrop of their racialised position as well as the neoliberal reshaping of class relations in Finland. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young Russian-speakers' employment in Helsinki, the article shows that young Russian-speakers' rac…
And After That We All became Like Brothers: Emotions, Affectivity and Communication in a Pro-governmental Youth Movement in Russia
This article examines how emotions create an affective solidarity in a pro-governmental youth movement in Russia. The article shows that despite a formally strong affiliation with the aims of political socialization of youth in Russia, young activists from Vse doma movement describe their participation in a political project through the joy of being together, communication ( obschenie), emotional flows ( dvizhuha), bodily and risky practices, rat…
Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw
Drawing on fieldwork among young among post-Soviet migrants in Helsinki (2014-2016) and Warsaw (2020), the article seeks an answer to the following question: what kind of work does racialisation of Eastern European migrant workers accomplish? The paper analyses young post-Soviet migrants’ position within the structures of racial capitalism in Europe, thus, shifting the focus from race as located in the body towards racialised positionings within …
Claims to whiteness: Young unemployed Russian-speakers' declassificatory struggles in Finland
This article analyses the position of young unemployed Russian-speaking migrants in Finland as being both racialised and racialising Others. Young Russian-speakers' claims to whiteness are analysed against the backdrop of their racialised position as well as the neoliberal reshaping of class relations in Finland. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young Russian-speakers' employment in Helsinki, the article shows that young Russian-speakers' rac…
Swedish surnames, British accents: Passing among post-Soviet migrants in Helsinki
In analysing efforts to pass as white, this article examines the ways racialized difference materializes on the bodies construed as "Eastern European". Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Russian-speaking migrants in Helsinki, it examines their attempts to inhabit whiteness through tactics of passing, such as changing their surnames, working on their accents, and adjusting how they dress. I argue that these efforts to pass as not "Russian" sh…
Imagining the 'West' in the Context of Global Coloniality: The Case of Post-Soviet Youth Migration to Finland
The article argues that the post-Soviet youth construct their migratory projects as an effort towards social distinction vis-a-vis post-socialist imaginary. We argue that their migration can be understood as a search for distinctiveness and for what is perceived as a 'better', that is, more western, lifestyle. Analysing their narratives through the prism of imagination, we demonstrate how young Russian-speakers vision the position of the post-soc…
The making of gendered 'migrant workers' in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland
The article focuses on young Russian-speaking migrants' day-to-day institutional encounters with labour market activation policies in Finland. The analysis contributes to the discussion on labour activation through analysing the workings of gender, migration and racialisation in welfare encounters through ethnographically grounded research. The argument of the article is two-fold. First, it argues that migrant and racialised minority populations …
Smashing containers, queering the international through collaging
This article explores the potential of collage epistemology to cultivate queer intellectual curiosity about international relations. It argues that collaging and queering share many points of departure: in both, objects are taken from their conventional contexts and assembled into new relational constellations. The article draws from pedagogical work where collages were used in university teaching on the politics of gender and sexuality. A set of…
Human capitalisation in activation: Investing in the bodies, selves and skills of unemployed youth in Finland
This article analyses how processes of ‘human capitalisation’ work in various labour-market activation services aimed at young people in Finland. Drawing on multi-site ethnographic research on activating workshops, public employment services, and career counselling for youth in the Helsinki metropolitan region of Finland in 2014–2016, we trace sites and instances of human capitalisation. Capturing processes through which previously non-economic a…
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw
The opening up of sociology to postcolonial and critical race thinking has been predominantly animated by the relations between western metropoles and their (post)colonies. ‘Eastern Europe’ seems to be an uneasy fit in this discussion, being excluded from the idea of ‘Europe’; at the same time, it is not grouped together with non-European Others in terms of colonial histories. Drawing on fieldwork among young Russian and Ukrainian migrant workers…
Escaping a migrant metropolis: Post-Soviet urbanization through the art project Nasreddin in Russia
This article narrates the politics of escape from borders and labour discipline in a post-Soviet migrant metropolis drawing on the art-activism project Nasreddin in Russia. It explores the relation between control and autonomy in urban migrations through a trans-aesthetics: a set of visual and verbal stories weaving together experiences and outcomes of the art project with academic debates on late capitalist urbanization. The encounter of artisti…
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers' care and work in Warsaw after 2022
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among young Ukrainian nationals in Warsaw from 2020 to 2023, the article examines how the labour of social reproduction is placed on Ukrainian migrant workers, who are confronted with the responsibility of ensuring care for their families and communities in the context of forced displacement. The analysis puts the concept of 'crisis ordinariness' in dialogue with social reproduction feminism to offer the 'ordinar…
Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy
In this article, we analyse the social reproduction of post‐Soviet migrant labour. Our inquiry builds on artwork by Olga Jitlina and Anna Tereshkina and by Mahpora Kiromova dealing with the effects of migration on family relations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We have braided the artwork with strands of social reproduction theory to examine the transnational household as a set of relationships that enables post‐Soviet and global capital…
And After That We All became Like Brothers: Emotions, Affectivity and Communication in a Pro-governmental Youth Movement in Russia
This article examines how emotions create an affective solidarity in a pro-governmental youth movement in Russia. The article shows that despite a formally strong affiliation with the aims of political socialization of youth in Russia, young activists from Vse doma movement describe their participation in a political project through the joy of being together, communication ( obschenie), emotional flows ( dvizhuha), bodily and risky practices, rat…
And After That We All became Like Brothers: Emotions, Affectivity and Communication in a Pro-governmental Youth Movement in Russia
This article examines how emotions create an affective solidarity in a pro-governmental youth movement in Russia. The article shows that despite a formally strong affiliation with the aims of political socialization of youth in Russia, young activists from Vse doma movement describe their participation in a political project through the joy of being together, communication ( obschenie), emotional flows ( dvizhuha), bodily and risky practices, rat…
Smashing containers, queering the international through collaging
This article explores the potential of collage epistemology to cultivate queer intellectual curiosity about international relations. It argues that collaging and queering share many points of departure: in both, objects are taken from their conventional contexts and assembled into new relational constellations. The article draws from pedagogical work where collages were used in university teaching on the politics of gender and sexuality. A set of…
Claims to whiteness: Young unemployed Russian-speakers' declassificatory struggles in Finland
This article analyses the position of young unemployed Russian-speaking migrants in Finland as being both racialised and racialising Others. Young Russian-speakers' claims to whiteness are analysed against the backdrop of their racialised position as well as the neoliberal reshaping of class relations in Finland. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on young Russian-speakers' employment in Helsinki, the article shows that young Russian-speakers' rac…
Human capitalisation in activation: Investing in the bodies, selves and skills of unemployed youth in Finland
This article analyses how processes of ‘human capitalisation’ work in various labour-market activation services aimed at young people in Finland. Drawing on multi-site ethnographic research on activating workshops, public employment services, and career counselling for youth in the Helsinki metropolitan region of Finland in 2014–2016, we trace sites and instances of human capitalisation. Capturing processes through which previously non-economic a…
Imagining the 'West' in the Context of Global Coloniality: The Case of Post-Soviet Youth Migration to Finland
The article argues that the post-Soviet youth construct their migratory projects as an effort towards social distinction vis-a-vis post-socialist imaginary. We argue that their migration can be understood as a search for distinctiveness and for what is perceived as a 'better', that is, more western, lifestyle. Analysing their narratives through the prism of imagination, we demonstrate how young Russian-speakers vision the position of the post-soc…
The making of gendered 'migrant workers' in youth activation: The case of young Russian-speakers in Finland
The article focuses on young Russian-speaking migrants' day-to-day institutional encounters with labour market activation policies in Finland. The analysis contributes to the discussion on labour activation through analysing the workings of gender, migration and racialisation in welfare encounters through ethnographically grounded research. The argument of the article is two-fold. First, it argues that migrant and racialised minority populations …
Escaping a migrant metropolis: Post-Soviet urbanization through the art project Nasreddin in Russia
This article narrates the politics of escape from borders and labour discipline in a post-Soviet migrant metropolis drawing on the art-activism project Nasreddin in Russia. It explores the relation between control and autonomy in urban migrations through a trans-aesthetics: a set of visual and verbal stories weaving together experiences and outcomes of the art project with academic debates on late capitalist urbanization. The encounter of artisti…
Swedish surnames, British accents: Passing among post-Soviet migrants in Helsinki
In analysing efforts to pass as white, this article examines the ways racialized difference materializes on the bodies construed as "Eastern European". Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Russian-speaking migrants in Helsinki, it examines their attempts to inhabit whiteness through tactics of passing, such as changing their surnames, working on their accents, and adjusting how they dress. I argue that these efforts to pass as not "Russian" sh…
Vuosi, jolloin kaikki muuttui ja kaikki pysyi ennallaan: Elämää ylläpitävä työ ja voitontavoittelu Covid-19 pandemian aikana
What Makes Middle‐aged Ukrainian Women into “Soviet” Babushki
Uncommon Sense: Security, with Daria Krivonos [Audio podcast episode]
Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy
In this article, we analyse the social reproduction of post‐Soviet migrant labour. Our inquiry builds on artwork by Olga Jitlina and Anna Tereshkina and by Mahpora Kiromova dealing with the effects of migration on family relations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We have braided the artwork with strands of social reproduction theory to examine the transnational household as a set of relationships that enables post‐Soviet and global capital…
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw
The opening up of sociology to postcolonial and critical race thinking has been predominantly animated by the relations between western metropoles and their (post)colonies. ‘Eastern Europe’ seems to be an uneasy fit in this discussion, being excluded from the idea of ‘Europe’; at the same time, it is not grouped together with non-European Others in terms of colonial histories. Drawing on fieldwork among young Russian and Ukrainian migrant workers…
Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw
Drawing on fieldwork among young among post-Soviet migrants in Helsinki (2014-2016) and Warsaw (2020), the article seeks an answer to the following question: what kind of work does racialisation of Eastern European migrant workers accomplish? The paper analyses young post-Soviet migrants’ position within the structures of racial capitalism in Europe, thus, shifting the focus from race as located in the body towards racialised positionings within …
Urban marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers' care and work in Warsaw after 2022
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among young Ukrainian nationals in Warsaw from 2020 to 2023, the article examines how the labour of social reproduction is placed on Ukrainian migrant workers, who are confronted with the responsibility of ensuring care for their families and communities in the context of forced displacement. The analysis puts the concept of 'crisis ordinariness' in dialogue with social reproduction feminism to offer the 'ordinar…
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works)