Ivan Kislenko, Ph.D.

Junior Visiting Fellow - Winter Semester 2022/2023

Ivan Kislenko is a junior visiting research fellow in the field of excellence, spending the winter semester 2022/23 in Graz.

During his stay, he will work on the project Between North and South: Anti-Eurocentric Isolationism of Russian Sociology in the State of War and Beyond, examining the application of the southern sociological perspective through the isolationist aspirations in the Russian context. Russian case refers to these debates as a part of the global sociological mosaic. Since North and South mean epistemology, it also means that this division could possibly be found in any sociological community. Sociological Russia is an example of such a state of affairs. Although it does not refer to this case entirely, it just demonstrates that South is a liquid concept. The main aim of the project is to trace how the southern epistemology could be interpreted in the heart of empire.

Has the project of unique isolationist Russian sociology succeeded? How did Russian scholars transfer the idea of anti-colonial indigenous sociology? How does this idea refer to the current political situation in Russia?

Ivan Kislenko holds a joint PhD degree from Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) and HSE University (Moscow, Russia). His research interests are global sociology, global production of knowledge, southern theory, isolationism in sociology, national and indigenous sociologies, sociological canon, academic dependence, and the history of the debates on the decolonization of sociology. He was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Social Theory (Ghent University, September 2019-February 2020) and a research assistant at the Centre for Fundamental Sociology (HSE University, 2020-2021). Last year Ivan was a Fulbright Affiliate Research Fellow at George Mason University (USA, 2021-2022) and an online lecturer in sociological theory at HSE University.

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