Alexandra Novitskaya's research while affiliated with Indiana University Bloomington and other places
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Publications (7)
Fleeing increased state-sponsored homo- and transphobia in their countries of origin, post-Soviet LGBTQ persons often seek political asylum in the West, including the United States. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this ethnographic research analyzes asylum-seekers’ perceptions of the United States and the life they expect to be able to live after m...
The prevailing wisdom among scholars of gender in Russia is that Vladimir Putin – as Russia’s “strongman” president – has become an agent of traditionalism. Some political scientists, often without a gendered lens, have argued that Putin is not so powerful, compelled to deploy various tactics and ideologies to balance competing interests among elit...
This article presents a transnational ethnography of a Russian‐speaking LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning) community in New York City addressing the impact of state‐sponsored homophobia in Russia, particularly the 2013 “gay propaganda” ban on international queer migration. Drawing on the theorizations of Russian state...
A contributing factor to the current persecution of Russian non-heterosexual individuals is Vladimir Putin’s overcompensating masculinist wish to claim Russia’s role as a global powerhouse. While most scholars tend to define Putin’s performance of masculinity as a confident and charismatic leader, a James Bond type of a super hero action man, such...
Moving beyond this map of important women and key problems facing women in Russia today, this chapter explains the limitations placed on women in politics and the importance of the feminism in opposition. We also make a deeper critique, arguing that gender constitutes the essential, internal supports of the edifice of the hybrid regime that has bee...
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... Russian commanders appear to have condoned or even encouraged rapes during the war, with a "an even clearer pattern…of organized sexual abuse in the detention facilities run by Russian troops, police officers and security forces" (Gall and Boushnak, 2023). But, Ukrainian and international human rights advocates immediately started documenting while also providing concrete and empowering assistance rather than using their narratives for national or international aims (Workshop Feb. 24, 2023). 1 While Putin has been justifying the war as a way to protect families and children from gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights (Novitskaya et al., 2023), the Ukrainian government-after years of activism, a well-supported petition in support, and gender equality advocate Maryna Bardina advising Zelensky-ratified the Istanbul Convention on gender violence, the fiercest convention for gender justice in the world. Ukrainian society, seeing LGBTQ+ soldiers and building on post-2014 Revolution of Dignity activism, has compelled important conversations about LGBTQ rights, leading to a new law against LGBTQ hate speech and draft legislation to legalize same-sex unions. ...
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... It is a problem for the scholarship on recent Russian identity-based regime legitimation that the term "traditional values" covers too much territory for analytical application (Johnson et al. 2021). Understanding the regime's nationalist project requires sensitivity to the complex ways in which symbols commonly associated with both civic and ethnic nationalism are infused with contextspecific meaning and incorporated in a coherent nation-building narrative. ...
... Perhaps to no surprise, my search was not effective suggesting that research of queer experiences in such contexts was impossible. I was thinking of settling with the experiences of LGBT+ people who successfully fled from problematic contexts (El G. 2023;Masullo 2015;Mole 2021;Novitskaya 2021;Shakhsari 2014;Shtorn and Kondakov 2023). Yet, further search bore fruit. ...
... of 350,000 total), only 20,000 are doing military service and they are primarily used to make traffic stops (TASS, 2018;Rabota v Rosgvardii, 2019). Many have had to sue to get in, and even then, not all have been successful (Piatyi Kanal, 2018;TASS, 2020). In the popular press, they tend to be celebrated for their participation in beauty contests (NEWS.ru, 2021). A recent newspaper article about three women guards referred to them as "girls" even though they had served for over 10 years and had children and husbands of their own (Kariakina, 2021). ...
Reference: Gender systems in the Putin autocracy
... Russia represents a considerably different political environment from the Western electoral process and party competition. Numerous scholars and analysts describe the current gender regime in Russia as patriarchal, traditional, masculine, man-centric, and in many ways hostile to women candidates and politicians (Belyaeva 2008;Temkina 2013;Riabov and Riabova 2014;Sperling 2015;Johnson and Novitskaya 2016). With gender discrimination taking overt and open forms, we hypothesize that institutional support for female candidates and politicians becomes the main avenue for their accession to local executive offices, and continuous institutional support is the main explanation for their decision to continue their service in elected positions. ...
