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Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning (2024)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2024). Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning. Organization Studies, 45(6), 801-823. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241236606

This study addresses the lack of research into social processes of competition in organizations and explores women leaders self-positioning in relation to the discourses of gendered competition and neoliberal competition. The discourses carry contrad... Read More about Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women leaders self-positioning.

Rethinking ‘traditional masculinity’ (2024)
Other
Yusupova, M. (2024). Rethinking ‘traditional masculinity’. [Magazine]. London

Does the concept of ‘traditional masculinity’ risk marginalising migrant men and those living in ‘non-Western’ parts of the world?

‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces (2022)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2023). ‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(3), 881-896. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12939

This paper investigates how women leaders in the UK negotiate claims of being competitive by internalizing competition. Competition is a critical component in neoliberal contexts; yet its gendered implications are under research. Through analysis of... Read More about ‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces.

Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques (2022)
Journal Article
Yusupova, M. (2023). Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques. Sociology, 57(3), 682-699. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221110724

This article explores how the legacy of European colonialism and its role in transforming gender relations globally, shapes post-Soviet Russian masculinities. It points to historical connections between European and Russian/Soviet colonial projects,... Read More about Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques.

The Invisibility of Race in Sociological Research on Contemporary Russia: A Decolonial Intervention (2021)
Journal Article
Yusupova, M. (2021). The Invisibility of Race in Sociological Research on Contemporary Russia: A Decolonial Intervention. Slavic Review, 80(2), 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.77

This essay provides a critical decolonial intervention into the prevalent state of racial exceptionalism in mainstream sociological research on contemporary Russia. Following critical race theory's understanding of race as relationally constituted an... Read More about The Invisibility of Race in Sociological Research on Contemporary Russia: A Decolonial Intervention.

Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity (2020)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2020). Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 35(7/8), 737-744. https://doi.org/10.1108/gm-09-2020-0274

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues for women managers, leaders and precarious academic women during COVID-19 in organisations and in academy.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper shares the authors’ personal experienc... Read More about Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity.

Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production (2020)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2021). Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production. Management Learning, 52(1), 86-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620950176

This article is an intervention in current trends of thinking about competition and gender in essentialist and stereotypical ways. Such thinking has produced numerous comparative studies measuring competitiveness of women and men; ‘proving’ men as co... Read More about Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production.

Pussy Riot: Feminist Band Lost in History and Translation (2019)
Book Chapter
Yusupova, M. (2019). Pussy Riot: Feminist Band Lost in History and Translation. In T. Oren, & A. Press (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315728346-20

The Pussy Riot story is clearly a story the West wanted to hear. Western journalists, politicians, and celebrities were unanimously inspired by the youthfulness and rebellion of courageous Russian feminists. Their life experience perfectly resonates... Read More about Pussy Riot: Feminist Band Lost in History and Translation.

Gender and Choice after Socialism (2018)
Book
Attwood, L., Schimpfössl, E., & Yusupova, M. (Eds.). (2018). Gender and Choice after Socialism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73661-7

The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to be problematic. Personal choice is limited by a range of factors such as a... Read More about Gender and Choice after Socialism.

Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: ‘Masculine’ Choice in Post-Soviet Russia (2018)
Book Chapter
Yusupova, M. (2018). Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: ‘Masculine’ Choice in Post-Soviet Russia. In L. Attwood, E. Schimpfössl, & M. Yusupova (Eds.), Gender and Choice After Socialism (187-215). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73661-7_8

This chapter looks into two paradoxes of the post-Soviet Russian gender order and post-Soviet Russian masculinities. The first paradox is a large-scale, well-documented structural contradiction which has persisted throughout the entire post-Soviet pe... Read More about Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: ‘Masculine’ Choice in Post-Soviet Russia.

Shifting Masculine Terrains: Russian Men in Russia and the UK (2017)
Thesis
Yusupova, M. (2017). Shifting Masculine Terrains: Russian Men in Russia and the UK. (Thesis). University of Manchester. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2997030

This dissertation examines the conception and performance of masculinities amongst two groups of Russian men, half of whom live in Russia and the other half in the United Kingdom. A total of forty in-depth biographical interviews were carried out, tw... Read More about Shifting Masculine Terrains: Russian Men in Russia and the UK.

Masculinity, Criminality, And Russian Men (2015)
Journal Article
Yusupova, M. (2015). Masculinity, Criminality, And Russian Men. Sextures: E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics, 3, 46-61

This article explores links between discourses of masculinity and criminality in the narratives of non-criminal Russian men. Based on the analysis of biographical interviews with Russian men residing in Samara, this study examines diferent ways in wh... Read More about Masculinity, Criminality, And Russian Men.

Pussy Riot: a feminist band lost in history and translation (2014)
Journal Article
Yusupova, M. (2014). Pussy Riot: a feminist band lost in history and translation. Nationalities Papers, 42(4), 604-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2014.923391

The Pussy Riot story is clearly a story the West wanted to hear. Western journalists, politicians, and celebrities were unanimously inspired by the youthfulness and rebellion of courageous Russian feminists. Their life experience perfectly resonates... Read More about Pussy Riot: a feminist band lost in history and translation.