The Revitalisation of Minority Languages in the Russian Federation
Outputs by Guzel Yusupova
Articles
2021 'How Does the Politics of Fear in Russia Work? The Case of Social Mobilization in Support for Minority Languages', Europe Asia Studies (accepted; forthcoming).
2020 (co-authored with Peter Rutland) 'Introduction: Transformation of Nationalism and Diaspora in the Digital Age', Nations and Nationalism (online first).
2020 'The Religious Field in a Russian Muslim Village: A Bourdieusian Perspective on Islam', Ethnicities (online first).
2019 'Exploring Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context: An Insider Perspective', Social Science Quarterly, 100, pp. 1459-1478.
2018 'Cultural Nationalism and Everyday Resistance in an Illiberal Nationalizing State: Ethnic Minority Nationalism in Russia', Nations and Nationalism, 24, pp. 624-647.
2018 (co-authored with Ponarin, Eduard) 'Social Remittances in Religion: Muslim Migrants in Russia and Transformation of Islamic Practices', Problems of Post-Communism, 65, pp. 188-200.
2018 'Making Ethnic Boundaries in the Society of Religious Renaissance: Islam and Everyday Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan', National Identities, 20, pp. 345-360.
Papers
29 April 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents paper 'Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy with the Islamic World' at the Russia’s Islamic Diplomacy: Institutions, Informality, and Believers conference, Central Asia Programme, George Washington University.
26 April 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents on ‘Social Media and Oppositional Coordination of Russian Ethnic Minorities’ at the British Sociology Association (BSA) 2019 Annual Conference, Glasgow (24-26 April 2019).
24 April 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents on 'How Digital Media Change Nationalism?' at the 29th Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Annual Conference, Edinburgh (24-25 April 2019).
14-15 March 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents paper 'Digital Nationalism in an Illiberal State: A Micro-level Perspective' at the symposium Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age, which she convenes in Durham.
20 February 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova gives presentation (with Professor Andy Byford) on 'Policy Paper as Mode of Assessment' in the MLAC Work in Progress Seminars, ER141, 12-1pm.
1 December 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents at the Russian Readings conference, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (30 November - 1 December 2018).
12-13 October 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents on 'Connective Action Advancing (Inter-)Ethnic Solidarity: Resistance to the Demotion of Minority Languages in Russia' at the 'Urban Activism and the Development of Civil Society in the Russian Federation' conference, Indiana University Global Gateway Network, Berlin.
2 August 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents on 'Digital Media and Tatar Language' at the 8th World Forum of Tatar Youth in Kazan, Russia.
30 June 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents paper 'Methodological Challenges in Research of Online Solidarity in Defense of Minority Languages in Russia' at the 'Nations in Cyberspace' conference (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 28-30 June 2018).
21 June 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents paper ‘The “Russian World” in a Multi-Ethnic Federation: Negotiating Russia’s Cultural Diversity under Putin’ at the workshop Russia and the Russian Worlds: International, Multinational, Transnational, Hatfield College SCR, Durham, 10.30am.
12 June 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents on 'Researching (Potentially) Sensitive Topics in an Authoritarian Context: The Peculiarities of Social Research on Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Russia' at the workshop Everyday Nationalism in World Politics, part of the British International Studies Association annual conference in Bath.
3-5 May 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents paper 'Demotion of the Second State Languages in the Russian Ethnic Republics: Resistance from Below' in the panel 'National Identities Viewed from Inside-Out' at the 23rd ASN World Convention, Columbia University, New York.
26 March 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova takes part in the workshop 'Russia’s 2018 Presidential Elections through the Regional Lenses' at King’s College London.
5 March 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova gives introductory talk on 'Revisiting Theories of the Nation: Complexity and Nationalism' at the Winter Academy (Revisiting the Nation: Transnational Contact Zones in Eastern Europe), New Europe College, Bucharest, 26 Feb - 7 Mar 2018.
2 March 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova presents her project 'The Revitalization of Minority Languages in the Russian Federation: Authoritarian Statehood, Inter-Ethnic Solidarity and the Digital Media' at the Winter Academy (Revisiting the Nation: Transnational Contact Zones in Eastern Europe), New Europe College, Bucharest, 26 Feb - 7 Mar 2018.
Blogs & Media
1 July 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova publishes paper 'Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy with the Islamic World' on the Central Asia Program portal (part of 'Russia's Islamic Diplomacy', CAP paper 220, edited by Marlene Laruelle).
25 March 2019
Dr Guzel Yusupova policy memo 'Why Ethnic Politics in Russia Will Return' (Policy Memo No. 584) is published by PONARS Eurasia.
11 September 2018
Dr Guzel Yusupova publishes op-ed titled 'Russia is Cracking Down on Minority Languages – But a Resistance Movement is Growing' in The Conversation. See also the republished version on the Durham University website.
6 November 2017
Dr Guzel Yusupova provides a media commentary on Radio Liberty (RFERL, Tatar-Bashkir Service) about the role of Tatar resistance to the recent downgrading of minority languages in the context the celebration of the anniversary of the Tatarstan Constitution.