Dr. Liubov Chernysheva

Liubov Chernysheva is an urban sociologist. She is a Postdoctoral fellow (Chair European Cities and Urban Heritage, Institute for European Urban Studies) and an associate member of DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 'Gewohnter Wandel' (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.). She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, where she developed a project focused on collective neighborly life in a post-socialist city. She studied practices of sharing, governing, and digitally mediating everyday realities in large housing estates. Her recent projects were related to the research on urban grassroots and collective initiatives in non-democratic cities, neighborly self-governance, and urban commons. Liubov was a participant in applied research projects aimed at the development of participatory planning methods. She is also the author of several art-science projects based on her studies.

Liubov’s current research project, “Sheltering (with) care: politics of projecting, constructing, and maintaining emergency shelters for people affected by disasters,” explores the politics of preparedness and reactions to natural disasters, namely planning, constructing, and maintaining emergency shelters for individuals affected by natural disasters. The research incorporates the inspiration from STS and material semiotics to study the politics of architecture and relies on the concept of care taken from feminist critical theory to investigate how care is embodied in shelter projects, shaping their material environment and determining their functioning and change over time. The study questions how care is translated into concrete designs, technological and spatial solutions, documents, regulations, and practices related to the preparation of shelters. The project focuses on preparedness for disasters in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Research interests
Mass housing, Neighborly relations, Urban care and maintenance, Urban communities and grassroots, Digital mediation, Post-Socialism, STS, Qualitative methods of social research, Digital ethnography

VITA

Education

2018— 2023: University of Amsterdam (UvA); PhD in Sociology (2024);

2017— 2020: Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; PhD in Sociology;

2014— 2016: European University at St. Petersburg; MA in Sociology

2010—2014:  Saint Petersburg State University; BA in Sociology

 

Work experience

2024 — 2026: Postdoctoral fellow, Juniorprofessur European Cities and Urban Heritage, Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar  

2023 — 2024: Research fellow / visiting researcher at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2022: Lecturer at ‘Co-urbanism’ educational program at the European University at St. Petersburg.

2020 — 2022: Research fellow at the Center for Independent Social Research (St. Petersburg)

2017 — 2018: Lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)

2016 — 2017: Research fellow at the European University at St. Petersburg.

PUBLICATIONS

     

  1. Bederson, V., Chernysheva, L., Semenov, A. (2025). Urban Activism Goes Digital in Authoritarian Setting: The Use of Digital Platforms in Urban Conflicts in Russia. Social Media + Society. Forthcoming.

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  2. Chernysheva, L. (2024). Neighboring alone? Digitally mediated communal life in a post-socialist large housing estate. PhD Thesis. AISSR, University of Amsterdam. https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/ba33ee2f-1f7b-450c-a230-c869697ca93f

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  3. Chernysheva, L. (2024). The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post Socialist Mass Housing. Space and Culture, 27(3), 288-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331223121010

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  4. Chernysheva, L. (2024). «Clean Off or Get Out». (Self)Governance, Community and Citizenship in New Large Housing Estates in Russian Cities. Russian Sociological Review, 23(2), 39-66. (in Russian)   https://doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2024-2-39-66  

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  5. Chernysheva L.A. & Zaporozhets O.N. (2023). Digital Platforms and Urban Mobilizations: How Locality Redefines Connective Action. Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, (4):124 148. (in Russian) https://doi.org/10.14515/monitoring.2023.4.2352

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  6. Chernysheva, L. A ., & Khokhlova, A. M. (2021). Creating value and authenticity: urban conflicts around historic buildings. Journal of Social Policy Research, 19(2), 223 238. (in Russian) https://doi.org/10.17323/727-0634-2021-19-2-223-238

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  7. Chernysheva, L ., & Sezneva, O. (2020). Commoning beyond ‘commons’: The case of the Russian ‘obshcheye’. The Sociological Review, 68(2), 322 340. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120905474

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  8. Chernysheva, L ., Dányi, E., de la Cadena, M., Farquhar, J., Joks, S., Kondo, S., ... & Martínez Medina, S. (2020). Translating a title: On other terms. The Sociological Review, 68(2), 283 286. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120905470

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  9. Chernysheva L. (2020). Online and offline conflicts around urban commons: caring for urban space in the territory of a large housing estate. The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 23(2): 36 66 (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2020.23.2.2

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  10. Chernysheva L.A . & Gizatullina E.G. (2020). “Vkontakte” and the neighbors: features and practices of hybrid neighboring in a large housing estate in St.Petersburg. Laboratorium. (2), 39-71. (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.25285/2078-1938-2021-13-2-39-71 

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  11. Chernysheva L.A . (2019). Russian ghetto: the imaginary marginality of new housing estates. Urban studies and practices, 4(2): 37 58. (in Russian) https://doi.org/10.17323/usp4220203758

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  12. Chernysheva L. (2018). Bikesharing out of a cycling policy: a new urban infrastructure and the relation between the mobile policy and technology. The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 21(3): 170 200 (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2018.21.3.8

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  13. Halauniova A.V. & Chernysheva L.A*. (2017). Plastic, bicycles, and urban citizenship: two cases of reorganization of infrastructures in St. Petersburg. Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 20 (3): 7 31. (in Russian). jourssa.ru/index.php/jourssa/article/view/232

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