Xenia Cherkaev
Biographic Data
| ID | 906648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xenia Cherkaev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xenia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherkaev |
| SIGNATURE | CHERKAEV X |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5122-0714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who gets the remainder? The ethics and politics of gleaning
We offer a new way of thinking about remainder economies in this special issue on ‘gleaning’ (the practice of claiming leftovers). We trace how people in many different places and times justify taking leftovers by claiming to seek some higher social end, over and above their own private interest. Gleaners take useful scraps not just by right but also by obligation: they assert both an entitlement to things that are too accidental, insignificant, …
The Pilfered material base of community
Throughout the history of industrial labour relations, workers have used the scraps of production to make useful things to take home. This essay gathers stories of such ‘self-made’ things from many different places and times: from early modern England to Fordist, state-socialist, and present day factories. Across these disparate settings, people tell similar stories: downplaying private profit and market sake, they speak not of resistance and jus…
Russian late-liberalism
The Golden Billion
This essay tells the story of the hot, brooding summer that preceded Russia's "special military operation" attack on Ukraine: an attack that could not legally be called a war and that many people in Russia supported even while they neither trusted the media nor cared to talk about politics. Rallying support for this undeclared war, Russian state rhetoric drew on images of WWII fascism, NATO expansion, and morally rotten transnational elites: them…
Russian Cyberpunk Farm. Dir. Sergei Vasiliev. Youtube
lt;p>Birchpunk: An Android Khoziaistvo on Mars. \n\n Russia circa 2098, seen from 2020. WIRED, Hayek, Open and Closed societies, other predicted futures. \n\n Review of "Russian Cyberfarm" youtube series. \n\n
St. Xenia and the Gleaners of Leningrad
This text is, above all, a grateful testament to a local saint's continued liveliness. It is a new hagiography, a story of a woman who gave away everything-her house, her money, her possessions, and even her name-who wandered homeless, and who has helped people resolve desperate situations ever since. Retelling the fragmented stories of how people asked for her intervention, and of how, through their actions, new mycelia of power grew on the ruin…
Interspecies Love Beyond the Field Guide
lt;p>A pedigree of a purebred German Shepherd born during the Leningrad blockade was accidentally discovered amidst office waste - and now lies safely stored in a state archive. Our study of the interspecies relationships forged between humans and service dogs in the hardship of blockade and war begins with this document. The story of the several hundred large dogs that survived the Leningrad blockade has long remained untold: the dogs' survival …
Interspecies Affection and Military Aims
The image of totalitarianism is central to liberal ideology as the nefarious antithesis of free market exchange: the inevitable outcome of planned economies, which control their subjects’ lives down to the most intimate detail. Against this image of complete state control, the multispecies ethnography of early Soviet institutions gives us a fortuitous edge to ask how centrally planned economies structure the lives of those actors whose biosocial …
Self-Made Boats and Social Self-Management
This article begins with the heroic stories former-Leningrad residents tell about making their own outdoor tourist gear out of illicitly obtained industrial materials. Reading these stories not as evidence of illicit circulation, but as expressions of ethical values, the author shows that they are united by common assumptions of generosity and argues that these assumptions cannot be understood through analytic frameworks concerned with private, a…
Society for Humanistic Anthropology Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Third Prize How Grades Had Been Gotten for Penguins and Money
This is a story about penguins and passing grades, about the practices and ethics of informal exchange in 1980s Leningrad and 2010s St. Petersburg, and about things' incommensurability spurring stories. It is, specifically, about one dead penguin: a bird that was killed, found, bought, gifted, found, stolen, and gifted again. [Gifting, storytelling, planned economy, post-Socialism, materiality
Self-Made Boats and Social Self-Management
This article begins with the heroic stories former-Leningrad residents tell about making their own outdoor tourist gear out of illicitly obtained industrial materials. Reading these stories not as evidence of illicit circulation, but as expressions of ethical values, the author shows that they are united by common assumptions of generosity and argues that these assumptions cannot be understood through analytic frameworks concerned with private, a…
The Golden Billion
This essay tells the story of the hot, brooding summer that preceded Russia's "special military operation" attack on Ukraine: an attack that could not legally be called a war and that many people in Russia supported even while they neither trusted the media nor cared to talk about politics. Rallying support for this undeclared war, Russian state rhetoric drew on images of WWII fascism, NATO expansion, and morally rotten transnational elites: them…
Society for Humanistic Anthropology Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Third Prize How Grades Had Been Gotten for Penguins and Money
This is a story about penguins and passing grades, about the practices and ethics of informal exchange in 1980s Leningrad and 2010s St. Petersburg, and about things' incommensurability spurring stories. It is, specifically, about one dead penguin: a bird that was killed, found, bought, gifted, found, stolen, and gifted again. [Gifting, storytelling, planned economy, post-Socialism, materiality
Interspecies Affection and Military Aims
The image of totalitarianism is central to liberal ideology as the nefarious antithesis of free market exchange: the inevitable outcome of planned economies, which control their subjects’ lives down to the most intimate detail. Against this image of complete state control, the multispecies ethnography of early Soviet institutions gives us a fortuitous edge to ask how centrally planned economies structure the lives of those actors whose biosocial …
Self-Made Boats and Social Self-Management
This article begins with the heroic stories former-Leningrad residents tell about making their own outdoor tourist gear out of illicitly obtained industrial materials. Reading these stories not as evidence of illicit circulation, but as expressions of ethical values, the author shows that they are united by common assumptions of generosity and argues that these assumptions cannot be understood through analytic frameworks concerned with private, a…
Interspecies Love Beyond the Field Guide
lt;p>A pedigree of a purebred German Shepherd born during the Leningrad blockade was accidentally discovered amidst office waste - and now lies safely stored in a state archive. Our study of the interspecies relationships forged between humans and service dogs in the hardship of blockade and war begins with this document. The story of the several hundred large dogs that survived the Leningrad blockade has long remained untold: the dogs' survival …
St. Xenia and the Gleaners of Leningrad
This text is, above all, a grateful testament to a local saint's continued liveliness. It is a new hagiography, a story of a woman who gave away everything-her house, her money, her possessions, and even her name-who wandered homeless, and who has helped people resolve desperate situations ever since. Retelling the fragmented stories of how people asked for her intervention, and of how, through their actions, new mycelia of power grew on the ruin…
Russian Cyberpunk Farm. Dir. Sergei Vasiliev. Youtube
lt;p>Birchpunk: An Android Khoziaistvo on Mars. \n\n Russia circa 2098, seen from 2020. WIRED, Hayek, Open and Closed societies, other predicted futures. \n\n Review of "Russian Cyberfarm" youtube series. \n\n
The Golden Billion
This essay tells the story of the hot, brooding summer that preceded Russia's "special military operation" attack on Ukraine: an attack that could not legally be called a war and that many people in Russia supported even while they neither trusted the media nor cared to talk about politics. Rallying support for this undeclared war, Russian state rhetoric drew on images of WWII fascism, NATO expansion, and morally rotten transnational elites: them…
Russian late-liberalism
Who gets the remainder? The ethics and politics of gleaning
We offer a new way of thinking about remainder economies in this special issue on ‘gleaning’ (the practice of claiming leftovers). We trace how people in many different places and times justify taking leftovers by claiming to seek some higher social end, over and above their own private interest. Gleaners take useful scraps not just by right but also by obligation: they assert both an entitlement to things that are too accidental, insignificant, …
The Pilfered material base of community
Throughout the history of industrial labour relations, workers have used the scraps of production to make useful things to take home. This essay gathers stories of such ‘self-made’ things from many different places and times: from early modern England to Fordist, state-socialist, and present day factories. Across these disparate settings, people tell similar stories: downplaying private profit and market sake, they speak not of resistance and jus…
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