Dina Antonacci Shvetsov

I am a political scientist and a sociologist, a doctoral student at NSSR

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

A way to commemorate my return to academic work:

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

Listening and appreciating while commuting between teaching gigs. Excellent, and historically sensitive commentary on the Russian domestic political affairs in my humble opinion.

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

In Moscow's Shadows 112: Goodbye #Prigozhin
What can we say about his death (beyond good riddance?). I feel this is a watershed moment: Putin's willingness to turn on his own is symptomatic of system decay and also undermines it
On your usual app or https://t.co/j8AGWvPAq7

[John 🌻 @gonzosociology]

I've got a new article out in @WorldSystemsRes "Periodizing the Capitalocene as Polemocene: Militarized Ecologies of Accumulation in the Long Sixteenth Century."

Focuses on war- making, environment- making, and accumulation.

https://t.co/fAlsQ4C4gU
#worldecology #capitalocene

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

Clear your calendar! ONLINE | Stolichnaya Praktika: Housing Renovation from Moscow to the Regions #ThewNewSchoolBlockLibrary https://t.co/peYvY19HUA

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

"Panel offers a critical take on selected historical moments and historically contingent processes of social change of acute contemporary relevance in Hungary, Ukraine, and Russia." #ASEEES20
https://t.co/UuDO2xxNKi

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

Presenting a paper at ASEEES 2020 Convention on Nov 6 (at 8 am EST😴)

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

Bourdieu: “The state of opinion at a given time is a system of forces, tensions,...nothing more inadequately expresses the state of opinion than a percentage.” (p. 150)

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

to impose the illusion that it is meaningful..to speak of the average of opinions or the average opinion.” (p. 150)

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

Bourdieu: “The opinion poll is an instrument of political action: perhaps its most important function is to impose the illusion that there is something called public opinion in the sense of the purely arithmetical total of individual opinions;

[Aaron Jakes @aaronjakes]

Book Launch Time! On the evening of November 9, I'll be talking about Egypt's Occupation with five of my favorite colleagues at @NSSRNews. Come join us for a roundtable with @bchallan, @EmmaFlemingPark, Julia Ott, Ann Stoler, and Nancy Fraser! Pls retweet!
@CapStudies @TNSHistory

[The New School Labor Coalition @TNSLCoalition]

"This School Was Built for Idealists. It Could Use A Return to its Roots" would've been a better headline. Read this on inequities @TheNewSchool and what faculty and staff have to say about the admin's response to the pandemic. (Thread)
https://t.co/4uLlkbzNn6

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

A reminder from the past

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

My students nominated me:
https://t.co/3TT9wY9B6j , but nothing compares to the midterm evaluations stating that my Methods of Soc Research course is "enjoyable." Making a "methods" course tolerable is mission: impossible.

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

“Land privatization and the commodification of social relations caused widespread poverty, mortality, and an intense resistance that threatened to shipwreck the emerging capitalist economy.”(Federici).No it’s not about Russia in the 1990s, it’s about Europe in the 16th century.

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

@aaronjakes Ido Oren in “Our Enemies and US” would have a lot to contribute to this discussion

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

Viacheslav Morozov on Russia & Black Lives Matter: Subaltern Whiteness and ... https://t.co/yVxkDh7zH3 via @YouTube

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

*bureaucratic (sorry, typo - stopped being a weberian for one day and..)

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

On Thursday, when I returned home from my buroucratic errands, my husband said: “I want to give you a hug, I have bad news”He told me that David Graeber died.Neither of us knew Graeber personally, but he influenced our thinking esp. in the beginning of our intellectual lives. RIP

[Barnaby Raine @BarnabyRaine]

On every page he wrote, David Graeber knew what many academics don't: that to love truth in this world is to be constantly incensed and endlessly kind. RIP.

[Dina Antonacci Shvetsov @dinashvetsov]

https://t.co/1Z90SKo5ar honored to participate in this scholarly initiative with the fantastic young researchers and very exciting plans for the next few months