Program 2023-2024

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2021-2022

October 9 @ 11am EST

Ronan Hervouet, Université de Bordeaux

A Taste of Oppression:

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

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Ronan Hervouet is Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux in the Faculty of sociology and a member of the Centre Émile Durkheim. He previously taught economics and social sciences at the European Humanities University in Minsk from 1999 to 2001 and was the French director of the Franco-Belarusian Center of political sciences and European studies in Minsk from 2009 to 2012. His forthcoming book, A Taste of Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus will be published by Berghahn Books in 2021 and has been published in French as Le goût des tyrans. Une ethnographie politique du quotidien en Biélorussie, Le Bord de l’eau, 2020. His previous book about Belarus was Datcha blues. Existences ordinaires et dictature en Biélorussie (Belin, 2009).