Olga Gurova

Biographic Data

ID640517
NAMEOlga Gurova
GIVEN NAMESOlga
FAMILY NAMEGurova
SIGNATUREGUROVA O
AFFILIATIONSAalborg University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX0

  • Place-Making the Local to Reach the Global

    Namkyu Chun, Olga Gurova et al.ARTICLEFashion Practice2019

    The case of Pre-Helsinki, a designer-driven platform aiming at internationalizing Finnish fashion talents, illustrates how fashion designers through this platform mobilize local actors in reshaping Finnish fashion to increase its visibility at the international level. For this inquiry, the article develops the concept of place-making, which summarizes the collective efforts of fashion designers and other local actors in the internationalization o…

  • Many faces of patriotism

    Olga Gurova, Оlga GurovaARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2019

    This article explores the multiplicity of discoursive articulations of patriotism in Russia in the context of “patriotic frenzy” observed in the country and reached in fashion. Patriotism is considered a socially constructed, multi-layered category defined in relation to nationalism and cosmopolitanism. To explore the interpretations of patriotism, this research uses the concept of governmentality of Michel Foucault and proposes the concept of “p…

  • Creative precarity? Young fashion designers as entrepreneurs in Russia

    Olga Gurova, Оlga Gurova et al.ARTICLECultural Studies2018

    This article explores the careers of young fashion designers as entrepreneurs in Russia. It discusses entrepreneurial experiences and labour practices of fashion designers in the context of precarity: that is, the structural conditions characterized by a lack of social, economic and emotional security caused by a shift of responsibilities for the labour market from the state to the citizens. The article takes the perspective of designers’ agency …

  • Russia

    Olga Gurova, Оlga GurovaCHAPTERRoutledge Handbook on Consumption2017

    This chapter discusses the approaches to consumer culture in Russia and provides a brief literature review. It shows that exist in scholarship on Russian consumption, namely, state and patriotic consumption, evolution of the retail trade, transformations in class structure and consumer practices. The chapter addresses recent developments in consumption in Russia in the context of prospective topics for future research. The issue of social differe…

  • Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia

    Оlga Gurova, Birgit Beumers et al.BOOKCultural Forms of Protest in Russia2017

    Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores …

  • Institutionalization of the Sociology of Consumption in Russia

    Open AccessOlga Gurova, Оlga GurovaARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2014

    Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издается с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…

  • Interdisciplinary Seminar «Critical Approach to Consumption and Consumer Studies in Post-Soviet Societies», Kazan, 29-30 March, 2013

    Open AccessOlga Gurova, Оlga GurovaARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2013

  • A Study of Cross-Border Shopping

    Open AccessOlga Gurova, Оlga GurovaARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2012

    The paper discusses cross-border shopping considering it as a practice of shopping outside one’s country of residence. The article is focused on the shopping practices of St Petersburg residents visiting the capital of Finland. The popularity of cross-border shopping has been increasing over in Russia as it became a part of the middle-class lifestyle. Drawing on the data from qualitative interviews, author discusses a set of reasons stimulating a…