On this webpage you can find information about my publications and media entries in English. My publications in Russian can be found here: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID, Academia.edu, Russian Science Citation Index.

Book

• Vanke, A. (2024, 2026 paperback).The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles

• Vanke, A. (2026). Theorising everyday struggle: Everyday environmentalism as creative resistance in the city. Current Sociology. Accepted for publication.
• Vanke, A. (2025). Multi-sited ethnography: developing avant-garde methodology for creative research into everyday lives. Sociological Research Online. OnlineFirst.
• Vanke, A. (2024). Researching lay perceptions of inequality through images of society: compliance, inversion and subversion of power hierarchies. Sociology 58(3): 587–604. Winner of the Sociology SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2025.
• Vanke, A. (2024). Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods. The Sociological Review 72(2): 276–300. Highly commended Article of the Year 2024.
• Lizama-Loyola, A., Sepúlveda, D., Vanke, A. (2022). Making Sense of Social Mobility in Unequal Societies. Sociological Research Online 27(1): 95–100.
• Vanke, A. (2014). The Corporeality of Working-Class Men in Labour Regimes and the Private Sphere. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 6(1): 154–158. An extended summary of the article published in Russian.

Other articles

• Vanke, A. (2015). Political Emotion: Russia’s 2011–2013 Mass Rallies. Russia’s Politics & Law 53(5–6): 27–43. A translated article published Russian.

Book chapters and encyclopaedia entries

• Vanke, A. (2025). Reconceptualising the Working Class in Contemporary Russia. In: K. Odhav and J. Govender (eds.) Sociology of Inequalities in BRICS Countries. Singapore: Palgrave, pp. 103 –118.
• Vanke, A. (2023). Reconceptualising the Working Class in Contemporary Russia. In: K. Odhav and J. Govender (eds.) Handbook on Sociology of Inequalities in BRICS Countries. London: Frontpage Publications, pp. 282–319.
• Vanke, A. (2018). Masculinities, Bodies and Subjectivities: Working-Class Men Negotiating Russia’s Post-Soviet Gender Order. In: C. Walker and S. Roberts (eds.) Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-Class Men in International Perspective. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 195–218.
• Vanke, A. (2016). Fear of War. In: P. Joseph (ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications Inc, pp. 617–620.
• Vanke, A. (2016). Body, Memory and Emotions of Male Members of the Army with Direct Experience of War. In: E. Rozhdestvenskaya, V. Semenova, I. Tartakovskaya and K. Kosela (eds.) Collective Memories in War. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd, pp. 176–187.

Reviews

• Vanke, A. (2026). Book Review: Butcher Tim, Creative Work beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together. Work, Employment and Society. Accepted for publication.
• Vanke, A. (2017). Sociological Debate on Inequalities in Russia and Beyond. Russian Sociological Review, 16(1): 270–277.

In the media, magazines and blogs

• Vanke, A. (2025). The creative power of social imagination. Or how ‘ordinary’ people view inequalities in Russian society. Everyday Society. May 22.
• Vanke, A. (2024, December 10). Recycling to resist: Russian eco-activists creating hope in the shadow of war [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine.
• Vanke, A. (2024). Structure of feeling: a conceptual tool in the study of how ‘ordinary’ people live and struggle. The Raymond Williams Society. March 24.
• Vanke, A. (2024). How working-class communities live with deindustrialization in Russia’s post-industrial cities. The research blog of the DéPOT project. January.
• Vanke, A. (2024). Subbotnik, proletarian art and the urban life of workers. Manchester University Press blog. January 17.
• Vanke, A. (2023). Applying creative ethnography in the study of deindustrialising neighbourhoods. SAGE Perspectives. March.
• Vanke, A. (2016). How can I tell what social class I belong in? The Question. November.
• Vanke A. (2016). How do social factors determine which music, fashions, trends, films etc become pop culture phenomena and which don’t? The Question. December.