J Hemment
Biographic Data
| ID | 8623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Hemment |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hemment |
| SIGNATURE | HEMMENT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1733-0607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disability studies in war and care: How to do work otherwise? A conversation between anthropology‐and‐disability‐studies scholars in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
This piece weaves together the voices of four feminist disability studies scholars and anthropologists whose work has been profoundly shaped by Russia's war of aggression. Composed via a dialogic encounter, it is based on a panel presentation on the topic of disability studies in war and care that took place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst just before the 1‐year mark of the full‐scale invasion. We came together to share insights and co…
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia-US relations
This article examines humor as geopolitical performance in the context of Russia-US political communication. Humor has featured prominently in the mass-mediated performances of Russian state actors since 2012. Public officials such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have engaged in ambiguous play and satirical borrowings via the circulation of memes and other political theatrics. "Russiagate"-the scandal about Russian interference in the 2016 US p…
Je suis Satisfaction: Russian politics in the age of hybrid media
This article traces a hybrid media event that unfolded in Russia in January 2018. Started on YouTube as a homoerotic music video, the so-called Satisfaction Challenge turned into a meme with hundreds of participants, millions of followers, and national media coverage. Using digital ethnography, we examine the interaction of Russian officials, publics, and media throughout this multi-sited, multi-actor, and multi-voiced event. In so doing, we pose…
Red Scares and Orange Mobilizations: A Critical Anthropological Perspective on the Russian Hacking Scandal
This essay considers the Russian hacking controversy, which has been a prominent theme of the US Presidential election season. Tracking the context and contours of the scandal, I consider some of the anxieties, phobias and cultural logics that animate it (both in Russia and the US) and reflect on the dynamics that drive it
Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and Potemkin NGOs: Making Sense of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia
By interrogating Putin-era civil society projects, this article tracks the aftermath of international development aid in post-Soviet Russian socialist space. State-run organizations such as the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi (Ours) are commonly read as evidence of an antidemocratic backlash and as confirmation of Russia's resurgent authoritarianism. Contributing to recent scholarship in the anthropology of postsocialism, Julie Hemment seeks…
Redefining Need, Reconfiguring Expectations: The Rise of State-Run Youth Voluntarism Programs in Russia
This article investigates the restructuring of the Russian social welfare system by interrogating Putin-era state-run projects to promote youth voluntarism. Set up in the aftermath of liberalizing social welfare reform, these organizations are interesting hybrids: at the same time as they honor the Soviet past and afford symbolic prominence to Soviet era values, they simultaneously advance distinctively neoliberal technologies of self-help and se…
Soviet-Style Neoliberalism: Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and the Restructuring of Social Welfare in Russia
Putin co-opted angry Russian pensioners and youth, channeling their energies into state-sanctioned projects of social renewal while continuing the direction of policy along a neoliberal path
Public Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Participation: Participatory Action Research and Critical Ethnography in Provincial Russia
This article contributes to discussions of a public anthropology by bringing participatory action research (PAR) into dialogue with anthropology. PAR appears uniquely compatible with the goals of critical ethnography. Deeply concerned with global/structural inequality, it is also attentive to the power relations inherent within the research encounter; its point of departure is the kind of collaboration that the new (critical) ethnography proposes…
Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia
This article contributes to scrutiny of feminist transnationalism by providing an ethnographic investigation of one of its most prominent campaigns. Thanks to the efforts of feminist activists, violence against women is now an international development issue, backed by the UN and prioritized by international donors and NGOs. I consider this success from the perspective of postsocialist Russia, where the first crisis centers have been set up in re…
The Riddle of the Third Sector: Civil Society, International Aid, and NGOs in Russia
This article examines the forms and logic of political activism encouraged by international development agencies in Russia by focusing on the project to promote civil society development. The version of civil society that has been brought into being by western design-the third sector-is far from what Russian activists desired and what donor agencies promised. Despite its claims to allow a grassroots to flourish, the third sector is a professional…
The Politics of Gender After Socialism
The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix +169 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and Potemkin NGOs: Making Sense of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia
By interrogating Putin-era civil society projects, this article tracks the aftermath of international development aid in post-Soviet Russian socialist space. State-run organizations such as the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi (Ours) are commonly read as evidence of an antidemocratic backlash and as confirmation of Russia's resurgent authoritarianism. Contributing to recent scholarship in the anthropology of postsocialism, Julie Hemment seeks…
Soviet-Style Neoliberalism: Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and the Restructuring of Social Welfare in Russia
Putin co-opted angry Russian pensioners and youth, channeling their energies into state-sanctioned projects of social renewal while continuing the direction of policy along a neoliberal path
The Riddle of the Third Sector: Civil Society, International Aid, and NGOs in Russia
This article examines the forms and logic of political activism encouraged by international development agencies in Russia by focusing on the project to promote civil society development. The version of civil society that has been brought into being by western design-the third sector-is far from what Russian activists desired and what donor agencies promised. Despite its claims to allow a grassroots to flourish, the third sector is a professional…
Redefining Need, Reconfiguring Expectations: The Rise of State-Run Youth Voluntarism Programs in Russia
This article investigates the restructuring of the Russian social welfare system by interrogating Putin-era state-run projects to promote youth voluntarism. Set up in the aftermath of liberalizing social welfare reform, these organizations are interesting hybrids: at the same time as they honor the Soviet past and afford symbolic prominence to Soviet era values, they simultaneously advance distinctively neoliberal technologies of self-help and se…
Je suis Satisfaction: Russian politics in the age of hybrid media
This article traces a hybrid media event that unfolded in Russia in January 2018. Started on YouTube as a homoerotic music video, the so-called Satisfaction Challenge turned into a meme with hundreds of participants, millions of followers, and national media coverage. Using digital ethnography, we examine the interaction of Russian officials, publics, and media throughout this multi-sited, multi-actor, and multi-voiced event. In so doing, we pose…
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia-US relations
This article examines humor as geopolitical performance in the context of Russia-US political communication. Humor has featured prominently in the mass-mediated performances of Russian state actors since 2012. Public officials such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have engaged in ambiguous play and satirical borrowings via the circulation of memes and other political theatrics. "Russiagate"-the scandal about Russian interference in the 2016 US p…
Red Scares and Orange Mobilizations: A Critical Anthropological Perspective on the Russian Hacking Scandal
This essay considers the Russian hacking controversy, which has been a prominent theme of the US Presidential election season. Tracking the context and contours of the scandal, I consider some of the anxieties, phobias and cultural logics that animate it (both in Russia and the US) and reflect on the dynamics that drive it
The Politics of Gender After Socialism
The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix +169 pp., notes, bibliography, index
The Politics of Gender After Socialism
The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix +169 pp., notes, bibliography, index
Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia
This article contributes to scrutiny of feminist transnationalism by providing an ethnographic investigation of one of its most prominent campaigns. Thanks to the efforts of feminist activists, violence against women is now an international development issue, backed by the UN and prioritized by international donors and NGOs. I consider this success from the perspective of postsocialist Russia, where the first crisis centers have been set up in re…
The Riddle of the Third Sector: Civil Society, International Aid, and NGOs in Russia
This article examines the forms and logic of political activism encouraged by international development agencies in Russia by focusing on the project to promote civil society development. The version of civil society that has been brought into being by western design-the third sector-is far from what Russian activists desired and what donor agencies promised. Despite its claims to allow a grassroots to flourish, the third sector is a professional…
Public Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Participation: Participatory Action Research and Critical Ethnography in Provincial Russia
This article contributes to discussions of a public anthropology by bringing participatory action research (PAR) into dialogue with anthropology. PAR appears uniquely compatible with the goals of critical ethnography. Deeply concerned with global/structural inequality, it is also attentive to the power relations inherent within the research encounter; its point of departure is the kind of collaboration that the new (critical) ethnography proposes…
Soviet-Style Neoliberalism: Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and the Restructuring of Social Welfare in Russia
Putin co-opted angry Russian pensioners and youth, channeling their energies into state-sanctioned projects of social renewal while continuing the direction of policy along a neoliberal path
Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and Potemkin NGOs: Making Sense of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia
By interrogating Putin-era civil society projects, this article tracks the aftermath of international development aid in post-Soviet Russian socialist space. State-run organizations such as the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi (Ours) are commonly read as evidence of an antidemocratic backlash and as confirmation of Russia's resurgent authoritarianism. Contributing to recent scholarship in the anthropology of postsocialism, Julie Hemment seeks…
Redefining Need, Reconfiguring Expectations: The Rise of State-Run Youth Voluntarism Programs in Russia
This article investigates the restructuring of the Russian social welfare system by interrogating Putin-era state-run projects to promote youth voluntarism. Set up in the aftermath of liberalizing social welfare reform, these organizations are interesting hybrids: at the same time as they honor the Soviet past and afford symbolic prominence to Soviet era values, they simultaneously advance distinctively neoliberal technologies of self-help and se…
Red Scares and Orange Mobilizations: A Critical Anthropological Perspective on the Russian Hacking Scandal
This essay considers the Russian hacking controversy, which has been a prominent theme of the US Presidential election season. Tracking the context and contours of the scandal, I consider some of the anxieties, phobias and cultural logics that animate it (both in Russia and the US) and reflect on the dynamics that drive it
Je suis Satisfaction: Russian politics in the age of hybrid media
This article traces a hybrid media event that unfolded in Russia in January 2018. Started on YouTube as a homoerotic music video, the so-called Satisfaction Challenge turned into a meme with hundreds of participants, millions of followers, and national media coverage. Using digital ethnography, we examine the interaction of Russian officials, publics, and media throughout this multi-sited, multi-actor, and multi-voiced event. In so doing, we pose…
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia-US relations
This article examines humor as geopolitical performance in the context of Russia-US political communication. Humor has featured prominently in the mass-mediated performances of Russian state actors since 2012. Public officials such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have engaged in ambiguous play and satirical borrowings via the circulation of memes and other political theatrics. "Russiagate"-the scandal about Russian interference in the 2016 US p…
Disability studies in war and care: How to do work otherwise? A conversation between anthropology‐and‐disability‐studies scholars in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
This piece weaves together the voices of four feminist disability studies scholars and anthropologists whose work has been profoundly shaped by Russia's war of aggression. Composed via a dialogic encounter, it is based on a panel presentation on the topic of disability studies in war and care that took place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst just before the 1‐year mark of the full‐scale invasion. We came together to share insights and co…
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