Gulnara Yusupova
Biographic Data
| ID | 3525992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gulnara Yusupova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gulnara |
| FAMILY NAME | Yusupova |
| SIGNATURE | YUSUPOVA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5972-6864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Russian language as imperial heritage
This article examines how Russian mobile populations perceive the status of Russian language in the former Soviet republics. Approaching Russian language as contested imperial heritage, the article contributes to discussions on language as heritage and widens existing research on imperial heritage beyond tangible heritage. Moreover, it contributes to a more differentiated analysis of Russians’ relations to imperial heritage that goes beyond imper…
Evoking of the Silenced Memories of Russo-Chechen Wars in the Context of Internal Tourism
This paper proposes a differentiative approach to analyzing Russian society by highlighting the different vantage points within the multi-national nature of contemporary Russia, its complex imperial legacy, and territorial variations. Focusing on how coloniality as condition reveals itself in tourist settings in Chechnya, it examines the evaluations of the region generated by tourists and their encounters with its sensitive past. The article also…
The mechanisms of forced military enlistment amid the intersections of ethnicity, rurality and spatial mobility in Russia
This paper is focused on the forced mechanisms of military enlistment for participation in Russia’s war in Ukraine. It argues that the structures of spatial mobility determine the greater vulnerability of rural dwellers and other lower strata of the population to coercive military enlistment by the state. It also argues that multi-dimensional barriers to spatial mobility contribute to the intersectional vulnerability when, for example, being an e…
Nationalism and Inequality Scholarship in the Age of Populism
The intersection of nationalism and inequality is undoubtedly gaining interest in current debates in nationalism studies. The effects of economic inequalities on nationalist politics are the most researched area; however, there are other ways to explore the relationship between nationalism and inequality. Focusing on economic and political aspects of inequality this state-of-the-field article offers an overview of existing research on the relatio…
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia
This article offers an account of how digital-media communication enables the negotiation of nationhood from the bottom up. It explains how conservative understandings of national belonging can be challenged and co-constructed in the process of public communication over a given discursive event. Using a discourse-historical approach and multimodal critical discourse analysis focused on Manizha’s performance on the Eurovision Song Contest, the aut…
Critical approaches and research on inequality in Russian studies
This essay suggests legitimizing and promoting critical approaches in Russian studies, as well as acknowledging the multifaceted diversity within Russian society. This diversity needs to be taken into serious consideration in any research on Russia. Moreover, various levels of inequality that this rich diversity both creates and challenges should be reflected upon in multidisciplinary research, with the focus on historical legacies in the reprodu…
Deep examination of weaknesses of Mr Putin and strengths of Russia
Tourism, Memory Production and Contested Ethnic Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Almaty
Memory politics in post-Soviet cities is a growing area of research with significant political implications. However, there is still relatively little consideration of memory production in the sphere of tourism, particularly when it comes to the analysis of memory practices beyond official city branding. Focusing on the case of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital, this article puts forward a multi-actor analysis of memory-making in city branding,…
Memory and the everyday geopolitics of tourism
This article examines the geopolitical implications of memory production in Russian tourism to post-Soviet cities. Based on fifty qualitative interviews conducted in Tallinn, Kyiv and Almaty in 2019, it reveals how, by remembering the shared Tsarist and Soviet past, tourists rework relations to places that used to be part of their own state. Tourist memories are ambiguous, showing imperial nostalgia for a former homeland as well as recognising th…
Cultural Ethnic Initiatives and the (De)Politicization of Ethnicity in Russia
The article examines the contemporary politicization of ethnicity among ethnic minorities in authoritarian settings. The research background of this paper are the changing language policies in Russia, which abolish the obligatory teaching of indigenous minority languages in local schools. Drawing on complexity theory in nationalism studies, the authors show how the activity of cultural entrepreneurs results in the ethnicization of mundane practic…
How Does the Politics of Fear in Russia Work? The Case of Social Mobilisation in Support of Minority Languages
The article examines the social movement of ethnic minorities in defence of republican state languages in ethnic regions of the Russian Federation in the context of politics of fear. In particular, the article focuses on how the repressive context shapes this social mobilisation both in offline and online domains. The article offers a detailed description of responsive as well as pre-emptive and visible as well as covert repressions aimed at ethn…
Introduction
This introduction to the four papers that make up this themed section locates them in the wider theoretical perspective from which they originate, and highlights the importance of taking into account digital media and technologies as an independent factor that significantly transforms contemporary nationalisms and social identities. Digital media has intensified and accelerated the relationship between culture and politics. It offers new ways of …
The religious field in a Russian Muslim village
Research on Islam in Russia has been growing in recent years. Despite the variety of perspectives adopted by scholars in the field, attention has focused mostly on responses to emerging globalised trends of Islamic orthodoxy in traditionally Muslim areas which had historically cultivated their own understandings of Islamic religious tradition strongly intertwined with local life. Most scholars of Russian Islam argue that the split among Russian M…
The Main Directions of Improving the Environmental and Economic Efficiency of Regional Production
The paper provides theoretical grounding and the directions for improving the economic efficiency of the regional feedstuff production. The study develops a conceptual model of distributing management functions of feedstuff production between the regional authorities of state sectoral and economic management and the district level. The authors suggest the methodology for calculating potential capacity of intraregional feedstuff market, considerin…
Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context
Object This article examines the methodological challenges of ethnographic research on ethnic and religious minorities, in an authoritarian context in the Russian Federation, conducted by an insider researcher. Method The article focuses on the peculiarities of the insider position in the field of research on understudied topics concerning ethnic and religious minorities. These cover issues of influence of national and local academic agendas on t…
Cultural nationalism and everyday resistance in an illiberal nationalising state
Ethnic minority nationalism has always been one of the most important subfields of nationalism studies, yet it lacks the consideration in illiberal settings. Limitations of civil liberties and restrictive legislation have undoubtedly affected the existence and the ways to express minority nationalism when it is considered a threat to authoritarian government, which is the case of the contemporary Russian Federation. The paper provides a methodolo…
Making ethnic boundaries in the society of religious renaissance
This article investigates the conflict between closely intertwined specific ethnic and universal religious practices that affect the formation and maintenance of ethnic group boundaries in the society of simultaneous Islamic and ethnic renaissances: contemporary post-Soviet Tatarstan. I argue that the negotiation of this conflict produces both reinforcement and erosion of the titular ethnic group boundaries. I pay special attention on ethnicity p…
Social Remittances in Religion
The authors seek to contribute to academic debates on migration studies by examining the role of Islam in the integration of Muslim migrants into a multicultural society with a long-standing Islamic component. This study examined some transformations in the religious practices of both Muslim labor migrants and Russian indigenous Muslims in the situation of large flow migration from Central Asia to Russia. The results demonstrate that these transf…
The Islamic representation of Tatarstan as an answer to the equalization of the Russian regions
This article presents a study of Islamic religious symbols involved in maintaining the special status of the Tatars in post-Soviet Tatarstan. It explores how regional ethnic elites in Tatarstan use Islam (the discourse of the history of Islam in the region and Islamic symbols in the representation of the region) as a tool for legitimizing their privileged positions in the region. In addition, the article examines how Islamic culture enters into t…
Cultural nationalism and everyday resistance in an illiberal nationalising state
Ethnic minority nationalism has always been one of the most important subfields of nationalism studies, yet it lacks the consideration in illiberal settings. Limitations of civil liberties and restrictive legislation have undoubtedly affected the existence and the ways to express minority nationalism when it is considered a threat to authoritarian government, which is the case of the contemporary Russian Federation. The paper provides a methodolo…
Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context
Object This article examines the methodological challenges of ethnographic research on ethnic and religious minorities, in an authoritarian context in the Russian Federation, conducted by an insider researcher. Method The article focuses on the peculiarities of the insider position in the field of research on understudied topics concerning ethnic and religious minorities. These cover issues of influence of national and local academic agendas on t…
How Does the Politics of Fear in Russia Work? The Case of Social Mobilisation in Support of Minority Languages
The article examines the social movement of ethnic minorities in defence of republican state languages in ethnic regions of the Russian Federation in the context of politics of fear. In particular, the article focuses on how the repressive context shapes this social mobilisation both in offline and online domains. The article offers a detailed description of responsive as well as pre-emptive and visible as well as covert repressions aimed at ethn…
Critical approaches and research on inequality in Russian studies
This essay suggests legitimizing and promoting critical approaches in Russian studies, as well as acknowledging the multifaceted diversity within Russian society. This diversity needs to be taken into serious consideration in any research on Russia. Moreover, various levels of inequality that this rich diversity both creates and challenges should be reflected upon in multidisciplinary research, with the focus on historical legacies in the reprodu…
Memory and the everyday geopolitics of tourism
This article examines the geopolitical implications of memory production in Russian tourism to post-Soviet cities. Based on fifty qualitative interviews conducted in Tallinn, Kyiv and Almaty in 2019, it reveals how, by remembering the shared Tsarist and Soviet past, tourists rework relations to places that used to be part of their own state. Tourist memories are ambiguous, showing imperial nostalgia for a former homeland as well as recognising th…
Social Remittances in Religion
The authors seek to contribute to academic debates on migration studies by examining the role of Islam in the integration of Muslim migrants into a multicultural society with a long-standing Islamic component. This study examined some transformations in the religious practices of both Muslim labor migrants and Russian indigenous Muslims in the situation of large flow migration from Central Asia to Russia. The results demonstrate that these transf…
The Islamic representation of Tatarstan as an answer to the equalization of the Russian regions
This article presents a study of Islamic religious symbols involved in maintaining the special status of the Tatars in post-Soviet Tatarstan. It explores how regional ethnic elites in Tatarstan use Islam (the discourse of the history of Islam in the region and Islamic symbols in the representation of the region) as a tool for legitimizing their privileged positions in the region. In addition, the article examines how Islamic culture enters into t…
Introduction
This introduction to the four papers that make up this themed section locates them in the wider theoretical perspective from which they originate, and highlights the importance of taking into account digital media and technologies as an independent factor that significantly transforms contemporary nationalisms and social identities. Digital media has intensified and accelerated the relationship between culture and politics. It offers new ways of …
Making ethnic boundaries in the society of religious renaissance
This article investigates the conflict between closely intertwined specific ethnic and universal religious practices that affect the formation and maintenance of ethnic group boundaries in the society of simultaneous Islamic and ethnic renaissances: contemporary post-Soviet Tatarstan. I argue that the negotiation of this conflict produces both reinforcement and erosion of the titular ethnic group boundaries. I pay special attention on ethnicity p…
Nationalism and Inequality Scholarship in the Age of Populism
The intersection of nationalism and inequality is undoubtedly gaining interest in current debates in nationalism studies. The effects of economic inequalities on nationalist politics are the most researched area; however, there are other ways to explore the relationship between nationalism and inequality. Focusing on economic and political aspects of inequality this state-of-the-field article offers an overview of existing research on the relatio…
The religious field in a Russian Muslim village
Research on Islam in Russia has been growing in recent years. Despite the variety of perspectives adopted by scholars in the field, attention has focused mostly on responses to emerging globalised trends of Islamic orthodoxy in traditionally Muslim areas which had historically cultivated their own understandings of Islamic religious tradition strongly intertwined with local life. Most scholars of Russian Islam argue that the split among Russian M…
The mechanisms of forced military enlistment amid the intersections of ethnicity, rurality and spatial mobility in Russia
This paper is focused on the forced mechanisms of military enlistment for participation in Russia’s war in Ukraine. It argues that the structures of spatial mobility determine the greater vulnerability of rural dwellers and other lower strata of the population to coercive military enlistment by the state. It also argues that multi-dimensional barriers to spatial mobility contribute to the intersectional vulnerability when, for example, being an e…
Social Remittances in Religion
The authors seek to contribute to academic debates on migration studies by examining the role of Islam in the integration of Muslim migrants into a multicultural society with a long-standing Islamic component. This study examined some transformations in the religious practices of both Muslim labor migrants and Russian indigenous Muslims in the situation of large flow migration from Central Asia to Russia. The results demonstrate that these transf…
The Islamic representation of Tatarstan as an answer to the equalization of the Russian regions
This article presents a study of Islamic religious symbols involved in maintaining the special status of the Tatars in post-Soviet Tatarstan. It explores how regional ethnic elites in Tatarstan use Islam (the discourse of the history of Islam in the region and Islamic symbols in the representation of the region) as a tool for legitimizing their privileged positions in the region. In addition, the article examines how Islamic culture enters into t…
Making ethnic boundaries in the society of religious renaissance
This article investigates the conflict between closely intertwined specific ethnic and universal religious practices that affect the formation and maintenance of ethnic group boundaries in the society of simultaneous Islamic and ethnic renaissances: contemporary post-Soviet Tatarstan. I argue that the negotiation of this conflict produces both reinforcement and erosion of the titular ethnic group boundaries. I pay special attention on ethnicity p…
Cultural nationalism and everyday resistance in an illiberal nationalising state
Ethnic minority nationalism has always been one of the most important subfields of nationalism studies, yet it lacks the consideration in illiberal settings. Limitations of civil liberties and restrictive legislation have undoubtedly affected the existence and the ways to express minority nationalism when it is considered a threat to authoritarian government, which is the case of the contemporary Russian Federation. The paper provides a methodolo…
The Main Directions of Improving the Environmental and Economic Efficiency of Regional Production
The paper provides theoretical grounding and the directions for improving the economic efficiency of the regional feedstuff production. The study develops a conceptual model of distributing management functions of feedstuff production between the regional authorities of state sectoral and economic management and the district level. The authors suggest the methodology for calculating potential capacity of intraregional feedstuff market, considerin…
Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context
Object This article examines the methodological challenges of ethnographic research on ethnic and religious minorities, in an authoritarian context in the Russian Federation, conducted by an insider researcher. Method The article focuses on the peculiarities of the insider position in the field of research on understudied topics concerning ethnic and religious minorities. These cover issues of influence of national and local academic agendas on t…
The religious field in a Russian Muslim village
Research on Islam in Russia has been growing in recent years. Despite the variety of perspectives adopted by scholars in the field, attention has focused mostly on responses to emerging globalised trends of Islamic orthodoxy in traditionally Muslim areas which had historically cultivated their own understandings of Islamic religious tradition strongly intertwined with local life. Most scholars of Russian Islam argue that the split among Russian M…
Cultural Ethnic Initiatives and the (De)Politicization of Ethnicity in Russia
The article examines the contemporary politicization of ethnicity among ethnic minorities in authoritarian settings. The research background of this paper are the changing language policies in Russia, which abolish the obligatory teaching of indigenous minority languages in local schools. Drawing on complexity theory in nationalism studies, the authors show how the activity of cultural entrepreneurs results in the ethnicization of mundane practic…
How Does the Politics of Fear in Russia Work? The Case of Social Mobilisation in Support of Minority Languages
The article examines the social movement of ethnic minorities in defence of republican state languages in ethnic regions of the Russian Federation in the context of politics of fear. In particular, the article focuses on how the repressive context shapes this social mobilisation both in offline and online domains. The article offers a detailed description of responsive as well as pre-emptive and visible as well as covert repressions aimed at ethn…
Introduction
This introduction to the four papers that make up this themed section locates them in the wider theoretical perspective from which they originate, and highlights the importance of taking into account digital media and technologies as an independent factor that significantly transforms contemporary nationalisms and social identities. Digital media has intensified and accelerated the relationship between culture and politics. It offers new ways of …
Deep examination of weaknesses of Mr Putin and strengths of Russia
Tourism, Memory Production and Contested Ethnic Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Almaty
Memory politics in post-Soviet cities is a growing area of research with significant political implications. However, there is still relatively little consideration of memory production in the sphere of tourism, particularly when it comes to the analysis of memory practices beyond official city branding. Focusing on the case of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former capital, this article puts forward a multi-actor analysis of memory-making in city branding,…
Memory and the everyday geopolitics of tourism
This article examines the geopolitical implications of memory production in Russian tourism to post-Soviet cities. Based on fifty qualitative interviews conducted in Tallinn, Kyiv and Almaty in 2019, it reveals how, by remembering the shared Tsarist and Soviet past, tourists rework relations to places that used to be part of their own state. Tourist memories are ambiguous, showing imperial nostalgia for a former homeland as well as recognising th…
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia
This article offers an account of how digital-media communication enables the negotiation of nationhood from the bottom up. It explains how conservative understandings of national belonging can be challenged and co-constructed in the process of public communication over a given discursive event. Using a discourse-historical approach and multimodal critical discourse analysis focused on Manizha’s performance on the Eurovision Song Contest, the aut…
Critical approaches and research on inequality in Russian studies
This essay suggests legitimizing and promoting critical approaches in Russian studies, as well as acknowledging the multifaceted diversity within Russian society. This diversity needs to be taken into serious consideration in any research on Russia. Moreover, various levels of inequality that this rich diversity both creates and challenges should be reflected upon in multidisciplinary research, with the focus on historical legacies in the reprodu…
Nationalism and Inequality Scholarship in the Age of Populism
The intersection of nationalism and inequality is undoubtedly gaining interest in current debates in nationalism studies. The effects of economic inequalities on nationalist politics are the most researched area; however, there are other ways to explore the relationship between nationalism and inequality. Focusing on economic and political aspects of inequality this state-of-the-field article offers an overview of existing research on the relatio…
Evoking of the Silenced Memories of Russo-Chechen Wars in the Context of Internal Tourism
This paper proposes a differentiative approach to analyzing Russian society by highlighting the different vantage points within the multi-national nature of contemporary Russia, its complex imperial legacy, and territorial variations. Focusing on how coloniality as condition reveals itself in tourist settings in Chechnya, it examines the evaluations of the region generated by tourists and their encounters with its sensitive past. The article also…
The mechanisms of forced military enlistment amid the intersections of ethnicity, rurality and spatial mobility in Russia
This paper is focused on the forced mechanisms of military enlistment for participation in Russia’s war in Ukraine. It argues that the structures of spatial mobility determine the greater vulnerability of rural dwellers and other lower strata of the population to coercive military enlistment by the state. It also argues that multi-dimensional barriers to spatial mobility contribute to the intersectional vulnerability when, for example, being an e…
Russian language as imperial heritage
This article examines how Russian mobile populations perceive the status of Russian language in the former Soviet republics. Approaching Russian language as contested imperial heritage, the article contributes to discussions on language as heritage and widens existing research on imperial heritage beyond tangible heritage. Moreover, it contributes to a more differentiated analysis of Russians’ relations to imperial heritage that goes beyond imper…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Economics (6 works)