CMS Borders Research Group is thrilled to present a talk by Lisa Dr. Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom titled Exodus: Russian Repression and Social ‘Movement’.
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Abstract
What does it mean when a social movement has to physically relocate to continue its advocacy? This “movement” of movements has been underway since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, raising a host of issues for Russian social movements. In past research, we identified several broad trends in Russian civil society prior to the war, which we labeled enduring, evaporating, and adapting forms of activism. Here we examine a new trend in Russian civil society – escaping. We consider how social movement theory can shed light on the dilemmas faced by Russian civil society groups using examples from feminist and environmental activism, and efforts opposing Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom (Stanford University) is a Professor of Political Science at UBC. Her regional area of expertise is Russia, and her research interests include democratization, civil society, human rights, gender issues, the politics of international democracy assistance, legal mobilization, and NGO activism in both domestic and transnational politics.
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