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About Anna Zhelnina
I am a sociologist, interested broadly in sociological theory, urban and political sociology, and social movement studies. I am an assistant professor of interdisciplinary social science at Utrecht University. I am an academic writing and public sociology enthusiast, experimenting with sociological fiction and other writing genres. I am also hosting various writing events (writing retreats and groups), and try to demystify academic writing and make it more accessible (both to writers and readers).Anna Zhelnina holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and works at Utrecht University. To learn more, visit her website or follow Anna on LinkediIn.
NBN Episodes hosted by Anna:
June 3, 2025
Everyday Politics in Russia
What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want …
February 25, 2025
Youth Participation and Democracy
How do young people participate in democratic societies? Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society (Bristol UP, 2024) introduces th…
February 18, 2025
Political Voice
In Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups (Oxford UP, 2024), Aidan McGarry examines the agency of marginalised people, emphasizi…
February 7, 2025
Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City
Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. Inclusionary Housing and Urba…
June 2, 2024
Sixty Miles Upriver
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Li…
May 17, 2024
Research Handbook on Urban Sociology
Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents a unique collection of theoretica…
April 1, 2024
The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societ…
November 20, 2023
Gentrification and Diversity
Lidia Katia C. Manzo's book Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown (Springer, 2023) examines lived experiences of making, inhabiti…
March 18, 2023
Tensions in Diversity
Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple…
February 1, 2023
How Cities Can Transform Democracy
We live in an urban age. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives acro…
November 28, 2022
Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents
It is widely accepted that London is in the midst of a serious housing crisis, manifested most obviously in city's soaring rents. While the causes of …
October 28, 2022
The Commodification Gap
The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg (Wiley, 2022) provides an insightful institutionalist p…
June 7, 2022
Contemporary Housing Struggles
Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) provides a comparative study of housing contentio…
April 7, 2022
Housing in the Margins
Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) offers a theoretically informed and empi…
February 18, 2022
Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability
In Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability. Russia 2008–2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Regina Smyth reveals how much electora…