A Popov
Biographic Data
| ID | 48088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Popov |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Popov |
| SIGNATURE | POPOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1337-8016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural anxiety and re-imagining ethnic heritage in post-Soviet Georgia: The case of dis-appearing Armenians in Telavi
The article explores cultural anxiety towards Armenian heritage in the historic town of Telavi, as a lived experience of cultural nationalism in post-Soviet Georgia. The complex history of colonialism and imperial/Soviet domination results in the overlaying of multiple epistemic regimes of identity construction, which results in tensions and contradictions in how ethnicity and cultural heritage are imagined and experienced. This constitutes a “pa…
Teleology and Teleonomy of Autopoietic Systems
The article is dedicated to the study of concepts of goal-directedness in the philosophy of biology, such as teleology and teleonomy. The author analyzes the historical evolution of ideas of purposiveness in 20th-century philosophy of biology, critiques teleological approaches in the context of modern evolutionary theory, and explores contemporary biological thought. The article examines the concept of teleonomy proposed by Colin Pittendrigh, w…
Re-visiting the Past and Shaping the Future in the Cultural Practices of Young People
This special issue was born out of the international project Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe's Future (CHIEF) funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme. The project focuses on youth's cultural socialisation in various educational settings through formal schooling, intergenerational interactions in the family, taking part in civic society activities, informal friendship groups and at heritage sites by conductin…
Dramatising Cultural Diversity: Youth Theatre as a Performance of Local Memory and Identity in a Multiethnic Environment
This article presents a comparative analysis of two ethnographic case studies conducted in local theatres in the Slovak town of Komárno and the British city of Coventry. These two locations are very different – one is a small town on the Slovak-Hungarian border and the other an urban centre in the Midlands region of Britain – and yet they are both characterised by the multiethnic and culturally diverse composition of their populations. The two yo…
Re-enacting “Cossack roots: ” Embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia
This article draws upon ethnographic research which was conducted among young Cossacks (members of officially registered and informal Cossack clubs) in southern Russia. It presents young people’s participation in the Cossack “nativism” as a physical and material mode of socialization into the mnemonic community. The research puts forward an argument that such corporal and sensorial experiences is effective in recruiting some young members to the …
Making Sense of the ‘Difficult’ Past: Transmission of Political Heritage and Memory-Work Among Young People Across Europe
This article considers young people's socialization into mnemonic communities in 14 European countries. It argues that such socialization is an intersubjective and selective process that, to a great degree, depends on the particular social environment that conditions the discourses on pasts available to young people. Drawing on memory studies, it recognizes memory as a valid alternative to the institutionalized past (history) but envisages the tw…
Research Ethics and Moral Dilemmas of Social Research in Post-Socialist Europe and Beyond
The first two papers of this special section set the beginning of a series of workshops dedicated toexploring ethical challenges in the context of qualitative fieldwork conducted in Central and Eastern Europe andbeyond hosted by the Centre for East European Language Based Areas (CEELBAS 2009-2011). The idea behindthe first workshop in September 2009 was to give scholars and postgraduate students an opportunity toexchange their fieldwork experienc…
Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity
The essay focuses on the notion of the Caucasus as a reference point in the construction of Cossack identity in southern Russia. Since the late Soviet period, the Cossack revivalist/nativist movement has emerged in the territories which constituted the frontier zones of Tsarist Russia. Arguably, the historical Cossack hosts were established as a kind of frontier community which played an important role in the expansion of the Russian Empire. This…
Making Sense of Home and Homeland: Former-Soviet Greeks' Motivations and Strategies for a Transnational Migrant Circuit
Focusing on former-Soviet Greeks' experiences of cross-border movement to Greece, this paper sheds light on the impact of this migration on the social identities of Russian Greeks as a transnational community. It draws on informants’ narratives and ethnographic observations recorded among Greek migrants in their home communities in southern Russia, and shows how their motivation, in their transnational movement, is determined by the ‘push-and-pul…
Ethnic Discrimination and the Discourse of “Indigenization”: The Regional Regime, “Indigenous Majority” and Ethnic Minorities in Krasnodar Krai in Russia
To many in both the East and the West it seemed axiomatic that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was due to “nationality reasons,” which were viewed as a natural process in the last empire's decline. Then, during the democratic reform of a totalitarian state, ethnic minority rights were first spoken of, and the growth of national self-awareness appeared to be an integral part of society's liberalization. Time has since shown that liberal c…
Becoming Pontic: “Post-Socialist” Identities, “Transnational” Geography, and the “Native” Land of the Caucasian Greeks
C конца 1980-х годов и, особенно, после развала Советского Союза греки, живущие на Кавказе, стали представлять себя в качестве понтийских греков. В статье, которая посвящена изучению этой “понтийской” идентичности, решается вопрос: какие культурные, политические и экономические процессы способствовали ее формированию в постсоветский период. Автор рассматривает идентичность понтийских греков как современный феномен, возникший в результате комплекс…
Consecration Ritual for a Blacksmith Novice among the Yakuts
Making Sense of the ‘Difficult’ Past: Transmission of Political Heritage and Memory-Work Among Young People Across Europe
This article considers young people's socialization into mnemonic communities in 14 European countries. It argues that such socialization is an intersubjective and selective process that, to a great degree, depends on the particular social environment that conditions the discourses on pasts available to young people. Drawing on memory studies, it recognizes memory as a valid alternative to the institutionalized past (history) but envisages the tw…
Making Sense of Home and Homeland: Former-Soviet Greeks' Motivations and Strategies for a Transnational Migrant Circuit
Focusing on former-Soviet Greeks' experiences of cross-border movement to Greece, this paper sheds light on the impact of this migration on the social identities of Russian Greeks as a transnational community. It draws on informants’ narratives and ethnographic observations recorded among Greek migrants in their home communities in southern Russia, and shows how their motivation, in their transnational movement, is determined by the ‘push-and-pul…
Ethnic Discrimination and the Discourse of “Indigenization”: The Regional Regime, “Indigenous Majority” and Ethnic Minorities in Krasnodar Krai in Russia
To many in both the East and the West it seemed axiomatic that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was due to “nationality reasons,” which were viewed as a natural process in the last empire's decline. Then, during the democratic reform of a totalitarian state, ethnic minority rights were first spoken of, and the growth of national self-awareness appeared to be an integral part of society's liberalization. Time has since shown that liberal c…
Becoming Pontic: “Post-Socialist” Identities, “Transnational” Geography, and the “Native” Land of the Caucasian Greeks
C конца 1980-х годов и, особенно, после развала Советского Союза греки, живущие на Кавказе, стали представлять себя в качестве понтийских греков. В статье, которая посвящена изучению этой “понтийской” идентичности, решается вопрос: какие культурные, политические и экономические процессы способствовали ее формированию в постсоветский период. Автор рассматривает идентичность понтийских греков как современный феномен, возникший в результате комплекс…
Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity
The essay focuses on the notion of the Caucasus as a reference point in the construction of Cossack identity in southern Russia. Since the late Soviet period, the Cossack revivalist/nativist movement has emerged in the territories which constituted the frontier zones of Tsarist Russia. Arguably, the historical Cossack hosts were established as a kind of frontier community which played an important role in the expansion of the Russian Empire. This…
Consecration Ritual for a Blacksmith Novice among the Yakuts
Consecration Ritual for a Blacksmith Novice among the Yakuts
Becoming Pontic: “Post-Socialist” Identities, “Transnational” Geography, and the “Native” Land of the Caucasian Greeks
C конца 1980-х годов и, особенно, после развала Советского Союза греки, живущие на Кавказе, стали представлять себя в качестве понтийских греков. В статье, которая посвящена изучению этой “понтийской” идентичности, решается вопрос: какие культурные, политические и экономические процессы способствовали ее формированию в постсоветский период. Автор рассматривает идентичность понтийских греков как современный феномен, возникший в результате комплекс…
Ethnic Discrimination and the Discourse of “Indigenization”: The Regional Regime, “Indigenous Majority” and Ethnic Minorities in Krasnodar Krai in Russia
To many in both the East and the West it seemed axiomatic that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was due to “nationality reasons,” which were viewed as a natural process in the last empire's decline. Then, during the democratic reform of a totalitarian state, ethnic minority rights were first spoken of, and the growth of national self-awareness appeared to be an integral part of society's liberalization. Time has since shown that liberal c…
Making Sense of Home and Homeland: Former-Soviet Greeks' Motivations and Strategies for a Transnational Migrant Circuit
Focusing on former-Soviet Greeks' experiences of cross-border movement to Greece, this paper sheds light on the impact of this migration on the social identities of Russian Greeks as a transnational community. It draws on informants’ narratives and ethnographic observations recorded among Greek migrants in their home communities in southern Russia, and shows how their motivation, in their transnational movement, is determined by the ‘push-and-pul…
Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity
The essay focuses on the notion of the Caucasus as a reference point in the construction of Cossack identity in southern Russia. Since the late Soviet period, the Cossack revivalist/nativist movement has emerged in the territories which constituted the frontier zones of Tsarist Russia. Arguably, the historical Cossack hosts were established as a kind of frontier community which played an important role in the expansion of the Russian Empire. This…
Research Ethics and Moral Dilemmas of Social Research in Post-Socialist Europe and Beyond
The first two papers of this special section set the beginning of a series of workshops dedicated toexploring ethical challenges in the context of qualitative fieldwork conducted in Central and Eastern Europe andbeyond hosted by the Centre for East European Language Based Areas (CEELBAS 2009-2011). The idea behindthe first workshop in September 2009 was to give scholars and postgraduate students an opportunity toexchange their fieldwork experienc…
Making Sense of the ‘Difficult’ Past: Transmission of Political Heritage and Memory-Work Among Young People Across Europe
This article considers young people's socialization into mnemonic communities in 14 European countries. It argues that such socialization is an intersubjective and selective process that, to a great degree, depends on the particular social environment that conditions the discourses on pasts available to young people. Drawing on memory studies, it recognizes memory as a valid alternative to the institutionalized past (history) but envisages the tw…
Re-enacting “Cossack roots: ” Embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia
This article draws upon ethnographic research which was conducted among young Cossacks (members of officially registered and informal Cossack clubs) in southern Russia. It presents young people’s participation in the Cossack “nativism” as a physical and material mode of socialization into the mnemonic community. The research puts forward an argument that such corporal and sensorial experiences is effective in recruiting some young members to the …
Re-visiting the Past and Shaping the Future in the Cultural Practices of Young People
This special issue was born out of the international project Cultural Heritage and Identities of Europe's Future (CHIEF) funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme. The project focuses on youth's cultural socialisation in various educational settings through formal schooling, intergenerational interactions in the family, taking part in civic society activities, informal friendship groups and at heritage sites by conductin…
Dramatising Cultural Diversity: Youth Theatre as a Performance of Local Memory and Identity in a Multiethnic Environment
This article presents a comparative analysis of two ethnographic case studies conducted in local theatres in the Slovak town of Komárno and the British city of Coventry. These two locations are very different – one is a small town on the Slovak-Hungarian border and the other an urban centre in the Midlands region of Britain – and yet they are both characterised by the multiethnic and culturally diverse composition of their populations. The two yo…
Teleology and Teleonomy of Autopoietic Systems
The article is dedicated to the study of concepts of goal-directedness in the philosophy of biology, such as teleology and teleonomy. The author analyzes the historical evolution of ideas of purposiveness in 20th-century philosophy of biology, critiques teleological approaches in the context of modern evolutionary theory, and explores contemporary biological thought. The article examines the concept of teleonomy proposed by Colin Pittendrigh, w…
Cultural anxiety and re-imagining ethnic heritage in post-Soviet Georgia: The case of dis-appearing Armenians in Telavi
The article explores cultural anxiety towards Armenian heritage in the historic town of Telavi, as a lived experience of cultural nationalism in post-Soviet Georgia. The complex history of colonialism and imperial/Soviet domination results in the overlaying of multiple epistemic regimes of identity construction, which results in tensions and contradictions in how ethnicity and cultural heritage are imagined and experienced. This constitutes a “pa…
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Collective memory (3 works)