ABI KARAS
Publications
Books
Monograph On Top of the City: Youth Culture and Urban Resistance on the Rooftops of St Petersburg | In Press, Bloomsbury | Forthcoming
Articles
Peer-Reviewed Article ‘“Grey is all that is depressing and dull”: The Chromatic Landscapes of Rooftop
Exploration in St Petersburg and the Grey Spaces of Leisure in the Capitalocene’, in Leisure Studies. Online first, March 2025 | DOI 10.1080/02614367.2025.2481572
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Peer-Reviewed Article ‘Rooftop Exploration and the Creation of Alternative Spaces in St Petersburg’, Problems
of Post-Communism. Online first, May 2024 | DOI 10.1080/10758216.2024.2345349
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Peer-Reviewed Article ‘Mansardisation: Attic Space, Urban Development, and the Politics of Preservation in
St Petersburg’, Slavonic and East European Review. January 2022. â„– 100.1. pp.127-156 | DOI:
10.1353/see.2022.0004
Chapters
Book Chapter ‘“Hanging Out” with the Boys: The Female Participant Observer in a Male-Dominated Group’
in Researching in the Former Soviet Union: Stories from the Field, published as part of the BASEES/ Routledge Series | 2022 | DOI: 10.4324/9781003144168-7
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Written Roundtable ‘Forum 52: sotsial’nye nauki i COVID-19: pro et contra’ [Forum 52: The Humanities and
Social Sciences and Covid-19: Pros and Cons], Antropologicheskii Forum. 2022. â„– 52. pp.11–82 | DOI
10.31250/1815-8870-2022-18-52-11-82
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Book Chapter ‘Café Guguţă: Heritage and Civic Activism in ChiÈ™inău’ in Contentious Spaces: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives of Socialist Built Heritage | In Press, Leuven University Press | Forthcoming
Reviews
Review of Juraj Buzalka & Agnieszka Pasieka (eds.), ‘Anthropology of Transformation. From Europe to Asia
and Back’ | Europe-Asia Studies. December 2023. â„– 75.10 | DOI 10.1080/09668136.2023.2282322
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Review of Radzhana Buyantueva & Maryna Shevtsova (eds.), ‘LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern
Europe. Resistance, Representation and Identity’, Europe-Asia Studies. March 2021. â„– 73.3. pp.590-592 | DOI 10.1080/09668136.2021.1893535
Other writing
Border Support in PrzemyślArticle on my time at the Poland-Ukraine border for Hot Potato Magazine 2022. № 4. | November 2022
Yav: the street art collective running out of patience in the fight for social changeProfile on St Petersburg-based street art collective Yav' for The Calvert Journal (preserved as the New EastDigital Archive since 2022) | February 2021
