Publications

Books

Monograph On Top of the City: Youth Culture and Urban Resistance on the Rooftops of St Petersburg | In Press, Bloomsbury | Forthcoming | https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-top-of-the-city-9781350512870/

Articles

Peer-Reviewed Commentary ‘Skateboarding as Imperial Endeavour: A response to “The ludic lives of memoryscapes”’, Memory Studies. Online first, January 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980251409280

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. March 2025. 44.5. pp.812-25| http://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2025.2481572

Peer-Reviewed Article ‘Rooftop Exploration and the Creation of Alternative Spaces in St Petersburg’, Problems

of Post-Communism. Online first, May 2024 | http://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2024.2345349

Peer-Reviewed Article ‘Mansardisation: Attic Space, Urban Development, and the Politics of Preservation in

St Petersburg’, Slavonic and East European Review. January 2022. 100.1. pp.127-156 | http://doi.org/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 | http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003144168-7

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], in Antropologicheskii Forum. 2022. 52. pp.11–82 | http://doi.org/10.31250/1815-8870-2022-18-52-11-82

Book Chapter ‘Café Guguţă: Heritage and Civic Activism in Chișinău’ in Contentious Spaces: Uncovering the Hidden Narratives of Socialist Built Heritage | In Press, Leuven University Press | Forthcoming | http://doi.org/10.11116/9789461667212

Reviews

Review of Alexis M. Lerner, Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2025, City & Society. 2025. | http://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.70021

Review of Juraj Buzalka & Agnieszka Pasieka (eds.), ‘Anthropology of Transformation. From Europe to Asia

and Back’ | Europe-Asia Studies. December 2023. 75.10 | http://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2023.2282322

Review of Radzhana Buyantueva & Maryna Shevtsova (eds.), ‘LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern

Europe. Resistance, Representation and Identity’, Europe-Asia Studies. March 2021. 73.3. pp.590-592 | http://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1893535

Other writing

Border Support in Przemyśl | Article on my time at the Poland-Ukraine border for Hot Potato Magazine 2022. 4. | November 2022 | Print only

Yav: the street art collective running out of patience in the fight for social change | Profile on St Petersburg-based street art collective Yav' for The Calvert Journal (preserved as the New EastDigital Archive since 2022) | February 2021 | https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/12507/yav-street-art-collective-social-change-russia-protests