The Mobilization in Support of the Russian Protest Movement in France: An Inside Perspective
Main Article Content
Abstract
This short piece endeavors to communicate initial and rather raw notes on the movement that emerged in December of 2011 in France (mostly in Paris) in support of the protest movement in Russia. The author’s closeness to the subject of her research (the author herself is a member of the movement) has allowed her both access to key events and insight into internal tensions and paradoxes within the movement. This research note highlights such characteristics of the French movement as the “erasure” of political differences between participants, the institutionalization of the protest movement, and the role of activists in France as mediators and sources of knowledge about Russia. In Russian.
Keywords
Russia, France, Activism, Presidential Elections, Post-Soviet Transformations
Abstract 170 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 81 HTML (Русский) Downloads 27
Article Sidebar
Article Details
Olga Nikolaeva
Olga Nikolaeva is a sociologist, freelancing for consulting companies in Paris. She graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in sociology and from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where she majored in management. She is a coauthor of “Leguerrier pacifique. Le cas d’un apprentissage de la vie par un élève qui pensait savoir mais qui ne savait rien” (with Héloïse Cloet, forthcoming in Théorie des organisations: les cas pratiques). Her research interests are mediation, mobilization and collective action, and the construction of marginality.