Jeremy Morris (academic)

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Jeremy Morris (born 1974) is a British ethnographer and political anthropologist [1] specializing on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is Professor in Russian and Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. Formerly he was the Co-Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies [2] at the University of Birmingham. He received his DPhil in Russian Studies at the University of Sussex. His areas of research interest include informal economy, class, precarity and postsocialism more generally. [3]

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In an interview with The Moscow Times in 2025, in emerged that Morris was one of the few Western scholars to have continued research fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. [4] The war in Ukraine also prompted him to repeatedly criticize coverage of Russia which relied on public opinion surveys, and journalists who resorted to reductionist stereotyping of Russians. [5] [6] Morris also criticized the political naivete of some of the Russian political opposition in exile [7] and was among those who predicted that the war in Ukraine would lead to Russia becoming more like North Korea. [8]

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  1. "Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance". GW Calendar. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  2. Morris, Jeremy (2016). "Everyday Post-Socialism". SpringerLink. doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95089-8. ISBN   978-1-349-95088-1.
  3. "How to Make Precarious Russia Habitable – or, What Russians Want in Putin's Fourth Term (with Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University)". Jordan Russia Center. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  4. Tubridy, Mack (2025-04-09). "Inside Russia's 'Micro-Politics': Ethnographer Jeremy Morris on the Quiet Resilience of Daily Life". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  5. Volkov, Denis; Rosenfeld, Bryn; Morris, Jeremy; Pleines, Heiko; Biriukova, Anna; Koneva, Elena; Chilingaryan, Alexander; Miniailo, Aleksei; Kamalov, Emil; Sergeeva, Ivetta; Zavadskaya, Margarita; Kostenko, Veronica (2023-02-20). "The Value of Public Opinion Polls". Russian Analytical Digest (RAD). 292. doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000599408. ISSN   1863-0421.
  6. Greene, Sam (2023-06-18). "TL;DRussia Weekend Roundup". TL;DRussia. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  7. Nikitin, Vadim (2024-08-16). "Dispatch: From the Hostage Swap to the Kursk Incursion". ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  8. "For Vladimir Putin, Russia's future is North Korea-lite". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  9. Smith, Mark B. (2019). "Morris, JeremyEveryday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins (review)". Slavonic and East European Review. 97 (2): 393–394. doi:10.1353/see.2019.0076. ISSN   2222-4327.
  10. Rogers, Douglas (2018). "Everyday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins. By Jeremy Morris. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xxviii, 261 pp. Notes, References, Index, Figures, Photographs. $99.99, hard bound". Slavic Review. 77 (2): 555–556. doi:10.1017/slr.2018.187. ISSN   0037-6779.
  11. Bejaković, Predrag (2016). "Book review: Practices, Institutions and Networks / Jeremy Morris and Abel Polese (eds.)". Financial Theory and Practice. 40 (1): 149–155. doi:10.3326/fintp.40.1.5.
  12. Czepczyński, Mariusz (2021-03-04). "Informal nationalism after communism. The everyday construction of post-socialist identities: edited by Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawłusz and Jeremy Morris, London, UK and New York, US, I.B. Tauris, 2018, 213 pp., £72.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781784539412; £26.09 (paperback), ISBN 9781838603830; £25.04 (eBook), ISBN 9781838608736". Eurasian Geography and Economics. 62 (2): 236–238. doi:10.1080/15387216.2020.1786421. ISSN   1538-7216.