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Lecturer, Doctoral Student
- Central and Eastern European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail alena.mincheniaslav.luse
Room SOL:A418
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a gender scholar and a social scientist. I hold my Master of Philosophy degree in Gender Studies from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and MA degree in Cultural Studies from the European Humanities University (Minsk, Belarus).
My academic interests include studies of nonviolence and civilresistance, cultural politics of emotion, research on Eastern Europe, feministtheory, and (auto)ethnography. Mydoctoral research looks at emotionality of political protests in Belarus - acountry often called ‘the last dictatorship in Europe'. These protests areusually seen and rhetorically framed as ‘a fight for democracy’. My projectaims at critical rethinking of both local and western narratives about resistancein the postsocialist region and in Belarus, in particular. I would like toanalyze how emotions shape and feature in activists’ narratives about'changes', 'democracy', 'Europe and its value', and 'Belarus as the lastdictatorship' and how subjectivities are performed in experiences of dissent.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Editorships (1)
Articles (3)
- Minchenia, A. (2020). Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion : Enacting Politics, Reinforcing Divisions. Conflict and Society, 6, 218-235. Berghahn Journals.
- Minchenia, A. (2017). Behind the “Failed Revolution” : Becoming Patriots, or the Work of Shame in Belarusian Protests. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 3, 21-51. Ibidem-Verlag.
- Minchenia, A. (2016). Killjoy and the Politics of Laughter. Russian Television Humour about Alyaksandr Lukashenka and its Reception in Belarusian Online Media. LIR journal, 34-55. Department of Literature, the History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg.
Book chapters (1)
Teaching
- EUHK30, European Studies: Bachelor Course
- EUHR14, European Studies: Theory and Methodology
- ÖCKB06, Nationalism and Communism in Central Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary)
- ÖCKK01, Central and Eastern European Studies: Level 3 - B. A. Course
- ÖCKR03, Theory and Methodology of Area Studies

Lecturer, Doctoral Student
- Central and Eastern European Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail alena.mincheniaslav.luse
Room SOL:A418
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20