Professor of cultural studies at CBEES, Södertörn University.
Irina Sandomirskaja
Professor of cultural studies at CBEES. Holds a doctoral degree in theoretical linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 2001, published a study of the deconstruction and archeology of Russian and Soviet patriotic speech practices. Current projects: De patientia: Language, Violence, and Strategies of Subjectivity, a collection of essays in language, power, and writing, and A Story of O, or Between Technique and Catastrophe, on Soviet deaf-blind education and related theories of language and consciousness.
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Articles by Irina Sandomirskaja
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The author has been following the protest against Putin through Facebook and a number of internet portals and claims that "even through the distance that any media technology always creates, one could not help feeling deeply affected by the joyous festivities during the protest events – tens of thousands strong manifestations, marches, flash mobs, and car rallies".
"The idea that a political change must precede an economic discussion prevails. In the absence of a social program, the carnival feature of the protest movement becomes the uniting principle pulling together people who otherwise would have never ever acted together.".
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A close reading of Ginzburg’s diaries shows how a fight against a shrinking living space is conducted on two levels: the purely physical fight for survival during the famine in Leningrad and the intellectual fight in a cultural environment increasingly dictated by the st
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