Oleksandra Seliverstova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4496640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oleksandra Seliverstova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Seliverstova |
| SIGNATURE | SELIVERSTOVA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Informality versus shadow economy: Reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan
This article is the first attempt to apply Putnis and Sauka's approach to direct measurement of the shadow economy through a survey of company managers in Central Asia. The results of the survey are used to calculate a shadow economy index for 2017 and 2018 in Kyrgyzstan, and to discuss the difference between direct and indirect methods in calculating the size of a shadow economy. We also propose a distinction between shadow economies and informa…
Presenting the results of the shadow economy survey in Ukraine while reflecting on the future(s) of informality studies
Reflecting on the results of the shadow economy survey, as conceptualized by Putnis and Sauka and implemented in Ukraine in 2019 for the first time, the goal of the current article is two-fold. First, it offers an overview of the results for the years 2017 and 2018 and estimates the shadow economy in the country at 38.3% of GDP for 2017 and 38.5% for 2018. Second, it suggests possible advantages in the use of direct methods to estimate the level …
National Identity for Breakfast: Food Consumption and the Everyday Construction of National Narratives in Estonia
Political debates on the Baltics, and in particular Estonia, have often pointed to “nationalisting” and exclusive narratives constructed at the institutional level. Accordingly, emphasis has been put on the lack of opportunities for Russians to integrate into an Estonian context. While acknowledging the shortfalls of the Estonian political project, this article contrasts these views in two ways. By emphasizing people’s agency and their capacity t…
Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn: A study of Russian and Estonian everyday identity construction through consumer citizenship
While the importance of consumption of luxury goods as a mechanism accompanying upwards movement in a social hierarchy has been well acknowledged, attention to the role and perceptions of luxury in multicultural societies has been scarce so far. It is nonetheless intriguing that ethnic groups inhabiting the same territory, and exposed to a same culture, might develop substantially different notions of luxury, which may end up affecting the integr…
Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities
Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing…
Estonie: La diplomatie du marketing national
Avec une population de 1.4 million d’habitants et un territoire de 45 000 kilomètres carrés, l’Estonie dispose d’un répertoire d’action diplomatique limité dans le système européen et sur la scène globale. Néanmoins, le pays a développé une grande capacité à faire passer ses messages, même informellement, à travers ce qu’on appelle le marketing national (nation branding), en particulier dans un certain nombre de secteurs. Cet article examine la c…
Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life
SCOPUS: ch.b
Keeping alive the “Imaginary West” in post-Soviet countries
Although since de-Stalinization in the 1950s, Soviet citizens have witnessed a noticeable influx of elements of western culture in their lives, their imagination of the living standards in the continuum of countries situated behind the western border was based on a usually distorted understanding of certain values and images of that region. Such an imagination encouraged people to engage with practices that, non-existing or marginal in the west, …
Consommation, identité et intégration en Estonie et en Lettonie
With the largest Russian-speaking and ethnic Russian minorities in the EU, the Baltic republics have attracted attention from numerous academics and specialists with an interest in the subject of minority integration and the limited ability to integrate Russian minorities. The initial premise for this article, however, is that the political dimensions and those relating to ordinary economic interactions can be considered separately. Consequently,…
Consuming” national identity in Western Ukraine
This paper represents an attempt to study national identity in the post-Soviet context through the lens of everyday life practices. Building on ideas of banal nationalism and consumer citizenship, and with support of empirical evidence collected in l'viv, Ukraine, this paper demonstrates how national identity becomes materialized in everyday life through consumption practices and objects of consumption. While exploring objects and practices that …
NatalyaChernyshovaSoviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era. Basees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies New York: Routledge, 2013, 259 pp $160.00 hbk
Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union
Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union." Europe-Asia Studies, 67(4), pp. 688–689
Consuming” national identity in Western Ukraine
This paper represents an attempt to study national identity in the post-Soviet context through the lens of everyday life practices. Building on ideas of banal nationalism and consumer citizenship, and with support of empirical evidence collected in l'viv, Ukraine, this paper demonstrates how national identity becomes materialized in everyday life through consumption practices and objects of consumption. While exploring objects and practices that …
National Identity for Breakfast: Food Consumption and the Everyday Construction of National Narratives in Estonia
Political debates on the Baltics, and in particular Estonia, have often pointed to “nationalisting” and exclusive narratives constructed at the institutional level. Accordingly, emphasis has been put on the lack of opportunities for Russians to integrate into an Estonian context. While acknowledging the shortfalls of the Estonian political project, this article contrasts these views in two ways. By emphasizing people’s agency and their capacity t…
Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn: A study of Russian and Estonian everyday identity construction through consumer citizenship
While the importance of consumption of luxury goods as a mechanism accompanying upwards movement in a social hierarchy has been well acknowledged, attention to the role and perceptions of luxury in multicultural societies has been scarce so far. It is nonetheless intriguing that ethnic groups inhabiting the same territory, and exposed to a same culture, might develop substantially different notions of luxury, which may end up affecting the integr…
Keeping alive the “Imaginary West” in post-Soviet countries
Although since de-Stalinization in the 1950s, Soviet citizens have witnessed a noticeable influx of elements of western culture in their lives, their imagination of the living standards in the continuum of countries situated behind the western border was based on a usually distorted understanding of certain values and images of that region. Such an imagination encouraged people to engage with practices that, non-existing or marginal in the west, …
Informality versus shadow economy: Reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan
This article is the first attempt to apply Putnis and Sauka's approach to direct measurement of the shadow economy through a survey of company managers in Central Asia. The results of the survey are used to calculate a shadow economy index for 2017 and 2018 in Kyrgyzstan, and to discuss the difference between direct and indirect methods in calculating the size of a shadow economy. We also propose a distinction between shadow economies and informa…
Presenting the results of the shadow economy survey in Ukraine while reflecting on the future(s) of informality studies
Reflecting on the results of the shadow economy survey, as conceptualized by Putnis and Sauka and implemented in Ukraine in 2019 for the first time, the goal of the current article is two-fold. First, it offers an overview of the results for the years 2017 and 2018 and estimates the shadow economy in the country at 38.3% of GDP for 2017 and 38.5% for 2018. Second, it suggests possible advantages in the use of direct methods to estimate the level …
Consommation, identité et intégration en Estonie et en Lettonie
With the largest Russian-speaking and ethnic Russian minorities in the EU, the Baltic republics have attracted attention from numerous academics and specialists with an interest in the subject of minority integration and the limited ability to integrate Russian minorities. The initial premise for this article, however, is that the political dimensions and those relating to ordinary economic interactions can be considered separately. Consequently,…
NatalyaChernyshovaSoviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era. Basees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies New York: Routledge, 2013, 259 pp $160.00 hbk
Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union
Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union." Europe-Asia Studies, 67(4), pp. 688–689
Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life
SCOPUS: ch.b
Keeping alive the “Imaginary West” in post-Soviet countries
Although since de-Stalinization in the 1950s, Soviet citizens have witnessed a noticeable influx of elements of western culture in their lives, their imagination of the living standards in the continuum of countries situated behind the western border was based on a usually distorted understanding of certain values and images of that region. Such an imagination encouraged people to engage with practices that, non-existing or marginal in the west, …
Consommation, identité et intégration en Estonie et en Lettonie
With the largest Russian-speaking and ethnic Russian minorities in the EU, the Baltic republics have attracted attention from numerous academics and specialists with an interest in the subject of minority integration and the limited ability to integrate Russian minorities. The initial premise for this article, however, is that the political dimensions and those relating to ordinary economic interactions can be considered separately. Consequently,…
Consuming” national identity in Western Ukraine
This paper represents an attempt to study national identity in the post-Soviet context through the lens of everyday life practices. Building on ideas of banal nationalism and consumer citizenship, and with support of empirical evidence collected in l'viv, Ukraine, this paper demonstrates how national identity becomes materialized in everyday life through consumption practices and objects of consumption. While exploring objects and practices that …
Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing…
Estonie: La diplomatie du marketing national
Avec une population de 1.4 million d’habitants et un territoire de 45 000 kilomètres carrés, l’Estonie dispose d’un répertoire d’action diplomatique limité dans le système européen et sur la scène globale. Néanmoins, le pays a développé une grande capacité à faire passer ses messages, même informellement, à travers ce qu’on appelle le marketing national (nation branding), en particulier dans un certain nombre de secteurs. Cet article examine la c…
Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn: A study of Russian and Estonian everyday identity construction through consumer citizenship
While the importance of consumption of luxury goods as a mechanism accompanying upwards movement in a social hierarchy has been well acknowledged, attention to the role and perceptions of luxury in multicultural societies has been scarce so far. It is nonetheless intriguing that ethnic groups inhabiting the same territory, and exposed to a same culture, might develop substantially different notions of luxury, which may end up affecting the integr…
Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities
National Identity for Breakfast: Food Consumption and the Everyday Construction of National Narratives in Estonia
Political debates on the Baltics, and in particular Estonia, have often pointed to “nationalisting” and exclusive narratives constructed at the institutional level. Accordingly, emphasis has been put on the lack of opportunities for Russians to integrate into an Estonian context. While acknowledging the shortfalls of the Estonian political project, this article contrasts these views in two ways. By emphasizing people’s agency and their capacity t…
Presenting the results of the shadow economy survey in Ukraine while reflecting on the future(s) of informality studies
Reflecting on the results of the shadow economy survey, as conceptualized by Putnis and Sauka and implemented in Ukraine in 2019 for the first time, the goal of the current article is two-fold. First, it offers an overview of the results for the years 2017 and 2018 and estimates the shadow economy in the country at 38.3% of GDP for 2017 and 38.5% for 2018. Second, it suggests possible advantages in the use of direct methods to estimate the level …
Informality versus shadow economy: Reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan
This article is the first attempt to apply Putnis and Sauka's approach to direct measurement of the shadow economy through a survey of company managers in Central Asia. The results of the survey are used to calculate a shadow economy index for 2017 and 2018 in Kyrgyzstan, and to discuss the difference between direct and indirect methods in calculating the size of a shadow economy. We also propose a distinction between shadow economies and informa…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)