Anna Ivanova
- About
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Anna Ivanova is a doctoral researcher at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Her current research focuses on how Ukrainian politics of urban space decommunization interacts with social cleavages and antagonisms. Anna’s research interests include analysis of discourse, power and hegemony, postcolonial and critical theories, as well as memory studies and urban studies.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
As a Research Assistant/Project Coordinator Anna works at Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung (Marburg, Germany).
Dissertation working title: De-Сommemoration in the Urban Space of Ukraine: Discourses, Practices, Objects
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6898-7951
Full CV: Academia.edu
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- Publications
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Journal Articles
- [forthcoming] The Russian World, the Great Past, and the External Threat: Deconstructing Vladimir Putin’s Discourse on Sovereignty (1999-2022), In Sovereignty through Practice: Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity, edited by Elia Bescotti and Jon-Wyatt Matlack, 2024.
- ‘Capitalism as the Global Social Order: A Critical Perspective’. Sociological Studios, no. 2(19) (1 December 2021): 31–40. https://doi.org/10.29038/2306-3971-2021-02-31-40
Co-authored
- [forthcoming] Anna Ivanova, Matthias Melcher and Nelly Gérard, Studying Discursive Practices of Sovereignty, In Sovereignty through Practice: Multiscalarity, Reflexivity, and Interdisciplinarity, edited by Elia Bescotti and Jon-Wyatt Matlack, 2024.
Reviews
- "When Bourdieu Meets the City: Approaching Trialectics of (Urban) Space [Review of: Wacquant, Loïc: Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023.]." In: KULT_online 69 (2024). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1427
- Presentations
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- 'Urban Space Transformations in Ukraine as a Response to the Russian Invasion'. 6.07.2024, 31. Tagung Junger Osteuropaexpert*innen, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
- 'Russain and Soviet Monuments and Memorials in War-Time Ukraine: The Case of Kharkiv 2024'. 17.06.2024, Workshop "Contested Monuments", University of Bonn.
- 'Decommemoration in the Urban Space of Ukraine: Discourses, Practices, Objects'. 4.06.2024, Oberseminar der Osteuropäischen Geschichte, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
- 'Decolonizing Urban Space of Ukraine as a Response to the Russian Invasion: A Critical Perspective'. 11.04.2024, International doctoral workshop of the University of Łódź and the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Łódź.
- 'Decommunization, Decolonization and Derussification in the Urban Space of Wartime Ukraine'. 14.12.2023, Workshop “A Space for ‘Place’ in Social Sciences”, Young Scholars Initiative, Sciences Po, Paris.
- 'Decommunization in the Urban Space of Ukraine: in the Times of War: Kharkiv Case'. 9.11.2023, Ukraine's Altered Landscapes: Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War, Institute for Human Sciences, Wien.
- Other
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Projects
- Co-organizer of the Round Table "Dynamics of Memory Across Media", GCSC Keynote Lecture Series, 17.06.2024
- Co-organizer of the Public Talk "Depoliticised City: Post-Pandemic and Post-Protest Minsk of the 2020s" by Aliaksei Bratachkin, GCSC, 5.07.2024
Summer Schools
- "Contested Memoryscapes: Central Europe and its Fractured Pasts", GS OSES, Prague, 26.09.-1.10.2022.
- Greifswalder Ukrainicum “After the Empires”: Ukraine's (Post-)Colonial Entenglements", Greifswald University & Krupp-Kolleg, Greifswald, 07.–19.08.2023.
- XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, "Cultures at War", Catholic University of Portugal & Critical Theory Network, Lisbon, 24 - 29.06.2024.
Theses
Master Thesis: Objective and Subjective Democracy: A Comparison of Different Regime Types, 2018, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Master Thesis: Radicalization of the Ukrainian Political Discourse in 2012-2015 (in Ukrainian), 2017, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Bachelor Thesis: "United County": Analyzing Ukrainian Discourse of Unity (in Ukrainian), 2015, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Research Interests
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- Critical Discourse Studies
- Power, hegemony and ideology
- Post- and neo-colonialism
- Political sociology
- Radicalization and polarization
- Left-wing thought and movements
- Teaching
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Co-Teaching with Prof. Dr. Andreas Langenohl: Seminar "Sociological Diagnoses of Contemporary Society in Germany", Summer Term 2024, Institut für Soziologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
- Memberships
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Within Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen:
- International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
- Giessen Center for Eastern European Studies (GiZo) - Scholarship holder
Within GCSC: