The primary goal of my research project is to explore circulation and manifestations of emotionality of political protests in contemporary Belarus and interrelations of these protests with political uprisings in Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East and Northern Africa.

The research analyses how and by what means emotional intensities of political protests are sustained. I am interested in how gender, class and geopolitical asymmetries are (re)produced by discourses about political changes and how and what subject positions in respect to gender, class, location and age are constructed by experiences and discourses of dissent. I take as a case for my research numerous attempts of political mobilization in Eastern Europe and in Belarus, in particular.

Theoretically, I draw on two corresponding shifts:
- the general reconceptualization of emotions as social and reflective of a power structure rather than the inner self (e.g., Ahmed 2004, Lutz 1988, Svasek 2005);
- the claim of centrality of emotions for analysis of protest and politics (e.g. Jasper 1998,Flam 2004, Svasek 2005).

Editorships (1)

• Minchenia, A., Sasunkevich, O. & Cope, B. (2017). (Eds.) Постсоциалистическое беспокойство : гендерные исследования в Восточной Европе в условиях консервативного поворота. Crossroads. The European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Articles (2)

• 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.
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• 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.
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Book chapters (1)

• Minchenia, A., Törnquist-Plewa, B. & Yurchuk, Y. (2018). Humour as Mode of Hegemonic Control : Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian Media. In Bernsand, N. & Törnquist-Plewa, B. (Eds.) Euroasian Studies Library, Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia (pp. 211-231), 11. Brill.
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