Andy Byford
Biographic Data
| ID | 963455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Byford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Byford |
| SIGNATURE | BYFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3251-3033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Responding to Russophonia
This article is a response to the concept of Russophonia, which has gained currency in contemporary Russian studies scholarship through the work of Naomi Caffee, Nina Freiss, and others, especially since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The authors of this article, based in the field of modern languages, recognize that Russophonia provides a welcome return to a critical emphasis on language, while also offering a framework that is…
Frances Nethercott. Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
In Russia, over the course of the nineteenth century, the form of writing usually described as “imaginative literature” acquired the status of the discourse through which its producers and consumers grappled collectively with what they—precisely as sharers of this discourse and thus members of a given society and culture—understood to be their common predicament. The form of writing usually described as historiography, which over the course o…
Between neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain
L’article analyse l’evolution, au cours des annees 2000 et 2010, de l’engagement civique et de la mobilisation politique des migrants russophones de l’espace post-sovietique vivant au Royaume-Uni, et souligne l’importance de la position intrinsequement transnationale de ces migrants entre plusieurs influences politiques. Les transformations de leurs mobilisations sont regies par : le contexte evolutif des opportunites d’immigration au Royaume-Uni…
Introduction. Transnational exopolities
Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain
L’article analyse l’évolution, au cours des années 2000 et 2010, de l’engagement civique et de la mobilisation politique des migrants russophones de l’espace post-soviétique vivant au Royaume-Uni, et souligne l’importance de la position intrinsèquement transnationale de ces migrants entre plusieurs influences politiques. Les transformations de leurs mobilisations sont régies par : le contexte évolutif des opportunités d’immigration au Royaume-Uni…
Introduction. Transnational Exopolities
International audience
V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s–1920s
In the early 20 th century the child population became a major focus of scientific, professional and public interest. This led to the crystallization of a dynamic field of child science, encompassing developmental and educational psychology, child psychiatry and special education, school hygiene and mental testing, juvenile criminology and the anthropology of childhood. This article discusses the role played in child science by the eminent Russia…
The mental test as a boundary object in early-20 th -century Russian child science
This article charts the history of mental testing in the context of the rise and fall of Russian child science between the 1890s and the 1930s. Tracing the genealogy of testing in scientific experimentation, scholastic assessment, medical diagnostics and bureaucratic accounting, it follows the displacements of this technology along and across the boundaries of the child science movement. The article focuses on three domains of expertise – psychol…
Performing ‘community’
During the early 2000s Great Britain witnessed a considerable rise in numbers of the Russian-speaking former-Soviet migrant population.1 This has been the result of the greatly increased opportunities for migration in most former Soviet states, the eastwards enlargement of the European Union, and the economically driven relaxation of immigration regulations under the UK’s Labour government between 1997 and 2008.2 Although they patently form a lin…
Cold War Entanglements of Social Science
Parent Diaries and the Child Study Movement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Parent diaries of child development and early upbringing–sometimes referred to as “mothers' diaries”–are an important source in the historiography of Russian childhood. The article situates the production of Russian parent diaries, as practice and discourse, in the history of the Russian child study movement between the 1880s and the 1930s. It traces the key socio‐cultural and professional contexts in which parent diaries were initially promoted …
The Russian Diaspora in International Relations
The article examines the harnessing of the contemporary Russian diaspora in certain domains of Russia's international relations. It looks specifically at Russian officialdom's ambivalent efforts at developing and engaging with a global network of state-backed diaspora associations, especially as instruments of cultural outreach. The focus is on the relatively recent implementation of this strategy in the West. The first half of the article discus…
Psychology at High School in Late Imperial Russia (1881–1917)
Secondary education is one key area in which academic disciplines build their identity and legitimacy in the public realm. The public image of a science is, of course, constructed by a variety of means and on different platforms, including the generalist media and the lively industry of scientific popularization. However, the school occupies a unique role in representations of science because of its greater degree of formal continuity with the ac…
Turning Pedagogy into a Science
The article explores the Russian teachers' tortuous campaign at the beginning of the twentieth century to rise above the status of "semiprofessionals" by rooting the legitimacy of their professional expertise, training institutions, and working practices in the authority of "science." This involved a radical reshaping of traditional pedagogy and its fusion with new, controversial approaches to child psychology. It also led to a proliferation of t…
Professional Cross-Dressing
Initiation to Scholarship
The mental test as a boundary object in early-20 th -century Russian child science
This article charts the history of mental testing in the context of the rise and fall of Russian child science between the 1890s and the 1930s. Tracing the genealogy of testing in scientific experimentation, scholastic assessment, medical diagnostics and bureaucratic accounting, it follows the displacements of this technology along and across the boundaries of the child science movement. The article focuses on three domains of expertise – psychol…
The Russian Diaspora in International Relations
The article examines the harnessing of the contemporary Russian diaspora in certain domains of Russia's international relations. It looks specifically at Russian officialdom's ambivalent efforts at developing and engaging with a global network of state-backed diaspora associations, especially as instruments of cultural outreach. The focus is on the relatively recent implementation of this strategy in the West. The first half of the article discus…
Turning Pedagogy into a Science
The article explores the Russian teachers' tortuous campaign at the beginning of the twentieth century to rise above the status of "semiprofessionals" by rooting the legitimacy of their professional expertise, training institutions, and working practices in the authority of "science." This involved a radical reshaping of traditional pedagogy and its fusion with new, controversial approaches to child psychology. It also led to a proliferation of t…
Introduction. Transnational Exopolities
International audience
Psychology at High School in Late Imperial Russia (1881–1917)
Secondary education is one key area in which academic disciplines build their identity and legitimacy in the public realm. The public image of a science is, of course, constructed by a variety of means and on different platforms, including the generalist media and the lively industry of scientific popularization. However, the school occupies a unique role in representations of science because of its greater degree of formal continuity with the ac…
Professional Cross-Dressing
Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain
L’article analyse l’évolution, au cours des années 2000 et 2010, de l’engagement civique et de la mobilisation politique des migrants russophones de l’espace post-soviétique vivant au Royaume-Uni, et souligne l’importance de la position intrinsèquement transnationale de ces migrants entre plusieurs influences politiques. Les transformations de leurs mobilisations sont régies par : le contexte évolutif des opportunités d’immigration au Royaume-Uni…
V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s–1920s
In the early 20 th century the child population became a major focus of scientific, professional and public interest. This led to the crystallization of a dynamic field of child science, encompassing developmental and educational psychology, child psychiatry and special education, school hygiene and mental testing, juvenile criminology and the anthropology of childhood. This article discusses the role played in child science by the eminent Russia…
Performing ‘community’
During the early 2000s Great Britain witnessed a considerable rise in numbers of the Russian-speaking former-Soviet migrant population.1 This has been the result of the greatly increased opportunities for migration in most former Soviet states, the eastwards enlargement of the European Union, and the economically driven relaxation of immigration regulations under the UK’s Labour government between 1997 and 2008.2 Although they patently form a lin…
Parent Diaries and the Child Study Movement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Parent diaries of child development and early upbringing–sometimes referred to as “mothers' diaries”–are an important source in the historiography of Russian childhood. The article situates the production of Russian parent diaries, as practice and discourse, in the history of the Russian child study movement between the 1880s and the 1930s. It traces the key socio‐cultural and professional contexts in which parent diaries were initially promoted …
Initiation to Scholarship
Initiation to Scholarship
Professional Cross-Dressing
Psychology at High School in Late Imperial Russia (1881–1917)
Secondary education is one key area in which academic disciplines build their identity and legitimacy in the public realm. The public image of a science is, of course, constructed by a variety of means and on different platforms, including the generalist media and the lively industry of scientific popularization. However, the school occupies a unique role in representations of science because of its greater degree of formal continuity with the ac…
Turning Pedagogy into a Science
The article explores the Russian teachers' tortuous campaign at the beginning of the twentieth century to rise above the status of "semiprofessionals" by rooting the legitimacy of their professional expertise, training institutions, and working practices in the authority of "science." This involved a radical reshaping of traditional pedagogy and its fusion with new, controversial approaches to child psychology. It also led to a proliferation of t…
The Russian Diaspora in International Relations
The article examines the harnessing of the contemporary Russian diaspora in certain domains of Russia's international relations. It looks specifically at Russian officialdom's ambivalent efforts at developing and engaging with a global network of state-backed diaspora associations, especially as instruments of cultural outreach. The focus is on the relatively recent implementation of this strategy in the West. The first half of the article discus…
Cold War Entanglements of Social Science
Parent Diaries and the Child Study Movement in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia
Parent diaries of child development and early upbringing–sometimes referred to as “mothers' diaries”–are an important source in the historiography of Russian childhood. The article situates the production of Russian parent diaries, as practice and discourse, in the history of the Russian child study movement between the 1880s and the 1930s. It traces the key socio‐cultural and professional contexts in which parent diaries were initially promoted …
The mental test as a boundary object in early-20 th -century Russian child science
This article charts the history of mental testing in the context of the rise and fall of Russian child science between the 1890s and the 1930s. Tracing the genealogy of testing in scientific experimentation, scholastic assessment, medical diagnostics and bureaucratic accounting, it follows the displacements of this technology along and across the boundaries of the child science movement. The article focuses on three domains of expertise – psychol…
Performing ‘community’
During the early 2000s Great Britain witnessed a considerable rise in numbers of the Russian-speaking former-Soviet migrant population.1 This has been the result of the greatly increased opportunities for migration in most former Soviet states, the eastwards enlargement of the European Union, and the economically driven relaxation of immigration regulations under the UK’s Labour government between 1997 and 2008.2 Although they patently form a lin…
V. M. Bekhterev in Russian Child Science, 1900s–1920s
In the early 20 th century the child population became a major focus of scientific, professional and public interest. This led to the crystallization of a dynamic field of child science, encompassing developmental and educational psychology, child psychiatry and special education, school hygiene and mental testing, juvenile criminology and the anthropology of childhood. This article discusses the role played in child science by the eminent Russia…
Between neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain
L’article analyse l’evolution, au cours des annees 2000 et 2010, de l’engagement civique et de la mobilisation politique des migrants russophones de l’espace post-sovietique vivant au Royaume-Uni, et souligne l’importance de la position intrinsequement transnationale de ces migrants entre plusieurs influences politiques. Les transformations de leurs mobilisations sont regies par : le contexte evolutif des opportunites d’immigration au Royaume-Uni…
Introduction. Transnational exopolities
Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain
L’article analyse l’évolution, au cours des années 2000 et 2010, de l’engagement civique et de la mobilisation politique des migrants russophones de l’espace post-soviétique vivant au Royaume-Uni, et souligne l’importance de la position intrinsèquement transnationale de ces migrants entre plusieurs influences politiques. Les transformations de leurs mobilisations sont régies par : le contexte évolutif des opportunités d’immigration au Royaume-Uni…
Introduction. Transnational Exopolities
International audience
Frances Nethercott. Writing History in Late Imperial Russia
In Russia, over the course of the nineteenth century, the form of writing usually described as “imaginative literature” acquired the status of the discourse through which its producers and consumers grappled collectively with what they—precisely as sharers of this discourse and thus members of a given society and culture—understood to be their common predicament. The form of writing usually described as historiography, which over the course o…
Responding to Russophonia
This article is a response to the concept of Russophonia, which has gained currency in contemporary Russian studies scholarship through the work of Naomi Caffee, Nina Freiss, and others, especially since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The authors of this article, based in the field of modern languages, recognize that Russophonia provides a welcome return to a critical emphasis on language, while also offering a framework that is…
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