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Agarin

Dr Timofey Agarin

Contact Details
Lecturer in Politics of Ethnic Conflict
(PhD Aberdeen, MA Marburg)
Room 023.02.005
+44 28 9097 3659

Teaching Areas

Skills and Methods of Political Research; Approaches to Research Design; Ethnic and National Conflict Management; Minorities in Europe

Research Interests

My interest is with ethnic politics and the role these play in Central Eastern European societies. In the past I looked at the dynamic relations between national identity, power relations and ethnic conflict across the postcommunist region and particularly at institutions of the nation-state. I am particularly interested in the interplay of social and institutional changes in postcommunism in the issue areas of non-discrimination, minority protection and migration. Using the cases of institutions tasked with minority protection, I investigate how democratising states cooperate with one another as well as with international organisations to reduce ethnic tensions domestically and ensure peace and stability in postcommunist states.

Beyond my interest in ethnic politics, I keep a keen eye upon research on civil society and analyse how voluntary organisations factor into cooperation between states and international organisations. Here, I am concerned with issues as diverse as environmental sustainability, language policy and planning, representation in democratic politics and participation of minorities, especially of Roma.

Recent/selected publications

Journal articles

Books

  •  A Cat’s Lick. Democratisation and Minority Communities in the post-Soviet Baltic (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010)

Edited volumes:

  • With Karl Cordell and Alexander Osipov (eds) 2013. Institutional Legacies of Communism: Change and Continuities in Minority Protection. London: Routledge.
  • with Malte Brosig, Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009).

Book chapters

  • ‘The Dead Weight of the Past? Institutional Change, Policy Dynamics and the Communist Legacy in Minority Protection’. In Institutional Legacies of Communism: Change and Continuities in Minority Protection, eds. Karl Cordell, Timofey Agarin, and Alexander Osipov. London: Routledge 2013
  • ‘Language Sectarianism: Europe’s regional languages and their revival.’ (with Michael Hornsby) in László Marácz and Mireille Rosello (eds.) Multilingual Europe and Multicultural Europeans (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012)
  • ‘Climate change and Tourism in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region,’ (with Jens Jetzkowitz and Andreas Matzarakis) in Christian Schott (ed.) Tourism and the Implications of Climate Change: Issues and Actors (Bingley, Emerald, 2010).
  • ‘Caught in the Middle: Regional Languages Between the National Past and a European Future,’ (with Michael Hornsby) in Jolan Roka (ed.) Concepts and Consequences of Multilingualism in Europe (Budapest, Budapest College of Communication and Business, 2010).
  • ‘Where Have All the Environmentalists Gone? Baltic Greens in the mid-1990s,’ in David J. Galbreath (ed.) Contemporary Environmentalism in the Baltic States (Routledge, 2010)
  • ‘Cooptation as Integration? National Programme “Integration of Society in Latvia” on Minority Participation’, in Timofey Agarin and Malte Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality (Amsterdam, 2009). Pp.199-223.
  • ‘Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: An Introduction’ (with Malte Brosig) in Timofey Agarin and Malte Brosig(eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality (Amsterdam, 2009). Pp.7-23.
  • ‘Multicultural Solutions for Central and Eastern Europe? Concluding Observations’ (with Malte Brosig) in Timofey Agarin and Malte Brosig(eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality (Amsterdam, 2009). Pp. 441-474.
  • ‘Divided Societies? Public Opinion on the State and Economic Change in Estonia and Latvia’, in Elena Nõmm (ed.) Ethnic Images and Stereotypes - Where is the borderline? Russian-Baltic Cross-Cultural Relations (Narva, 2007).
  • ‘Post-Soviet Community Building in the Baltic States’, in Aileen Pearson-Evans and Angela Leahy (eds.), Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity (New York, 2007).
  • ‘Gesellschaftliche Resonanz des Systemwandels in den baltischen Gesellschaften im intergenerationellen Vergleich’, in Arbeitspapiere und Materialien – Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Bremen. Nr.77: Osteuropaforschung – 15 Jahre danach (Bremen, 2006).
  • ‘Russian Speaking Communities and Democratic Consolidation in the post-Soviet Baltic Societies’, in Andres Kasekamp and Heiko Pääbo (eds.), Promoting Democratic Values in the Enlarging Europe: The Changing Role of the Baltic States from Importers to Exporters (Tartu, 2006)
  • ‘Zugehörigkeit trotz Exklusion: Anerkennung zwischen den Minderheiten und Mehrheiten im post-sowjetischen Baltikum’, in Arbeitspapiere und Materialien – Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Bremen. Nr.70: Integration und Ausgrenzung im Osten Europas (Bremen, 2005).
  • ‘Citizenship and Processes of Social Exclusion in the Baltic States. Rearranging Identities’, in Bogdan Voicu and Horatiu Rusu (eds.), Globalization, European Integration, and Social Development in European Postcommunist Societies (Sibiu, 2003)
  • ‘Demographic and Cultural Policies of the Soviet Union in Lithuania from 1944 to 1956. A Post-Colonial Perspective’, in Olaf Mertelsmann (ed.), The Sovietization of the Baltic States, 1940-1956 (Tartu, 2003).

Book reviews

  • Commercio, Michele E., Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The Transformative Power of Informal Networks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. In Central Asian Survey.
  • Geiger, Martin and Antoine Pécoud (eds.) The Politics of International Migration Management (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship). Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010. In Antropološki zvezki – Slovene Journal of Anthropology.
  • Stewart, Michael and Márton Rövid (eds.). Multi-disciplinary approaches to Romany studies. Selected papers from Participants of Central European University’s Summer Courses 2007-2009. Budapest. Central European University, 2010 In Romany Studies
  • Golubeva, Maria and Robert Gould (eds.) Shrinking Citizenship: Discursive Practices that Limit Democratic Participation in Latvian Politics, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010. In Journal of Baltic Studies
  • Kockel, Ullrich. Re-visioning Europe Frontiers, Place Identities and Journeys in Debatable Lands, Palgrave Macmillan 2010. In Journal of Contemporary European Research
  • Epstein, Rachel A. In Pursuit of Liberalism. International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe, Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. In Canadian Slavonic Papers
  • King, Charles. Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. For Europe-Asia Studies
  • Pål Kolstø (ed.) Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. In European Security
  • Latour, Bruno. The Making of Law. An Ethnography of the Conseil D’Etat (translated Marina Brilman and Alain Pottage). Malden: Polity Press, 2010. In Antropološki zvezki – Slovene Journal of Anthropology.
  • Leonidas Donskis (ed.) A Litmus Test of Modernity: Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century Frankfurt am Main/New York, Lang, 2009 In Journal of Baltic Studies
  • Henry E. Hale, The Foundations of Ethnic Politics. Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006). In Europe-Asia Studies.
  • Walter Richmond, The Northwest Caucasus: Past, Present, Future (London and New York, Routledge, 2008). In Europe-Asia Studies.
  • Aurel Braun (ed.), NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century (New York and London: Routledge, 2008). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Lefort, Claude, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). In Europe-Asia Studies.
  • Oldfield, Jonathan D., Russian Nature: Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice), (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). In Environmental Politics.
  • Rindzeviciute, Egle (ed.), Re-approaching East Central Europe: Old Region, New Institutions? Baltic and East European Studies 7. Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (Huddinge: Södertörns Högskola, 2006). In Europe-Asia Studies.
  • Ieva Zake, Nineteenth-Century Nationalism and Twentieth-Century Anti-democratic Ideals: The Case of Latvia, 1840s to 1980s. (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). In Europe-Asia Studies
  • Morton, Adam David, Unravelling Gramsci. Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (London: Pluto Press, 2007). In Antropološki zvezki – Slovene Journal of Anthropology.
  • Gammer, Moshe, The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule. (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2005). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Jenne, Erin K., Ethnic Bargaining. The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (London and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Weller, Marc (ed.), The Rights of Minorities in Europe. A Commentary on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Barany, Zoltan and Robert G. Moser (eds.), Ethnic Politics after Communism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Zisserman-Brodsky, Dina, Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Samizdat, Deprivation, and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism (New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Budryte, Dovile, Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the post-Soviet Baltic States (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005). In Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • Coppieters, Bruno and Robert Legvold (ed.), Statehood and Security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution, (Cambridge, Ma., The MIT Press, 2005). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Silova, Iveta, From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism. Reconceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia (Greenwich, CT, Information Age Publishing, 2006). In Journal of Baltic Studies.
  • Žižek, Slavoj, Interrogating the Real. Edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (London and New York: Continuum, 2005). In Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics.
  • Mazur-Stommen, Susan, Engines of Ideology. Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany 1990-2000 (Münster, LIT Verlag, 2005). In Soyuz.
  • Freire, Maria Raquel, Conflict and Security in the Former Soviet Union: The Role of the OSCE (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003). In Ethnopolitics.
  • Galbreath, David J. , Nation-Building and Minority Politics in Post-Socialist States: Interests, Influence and Identities in Estonia and Latvia (Stuttgart, ibidem Verlag, 2005). In Osteuropa.