Abstract: Our everyday choices are always political and ever more international. In this talk, I offer a way to theorize and expose how everyday foreign policy works at the grassroots level, using empirical material from Russia. I argue that everyday foreign policy should be theorized as an assemblage of micro-practices and discourses across both physical and digital spaces, inside and outside the body. In this way, everyday foreign policy can be seen as a decentralized phenomenon, where biological and cultural elements are intertwined through physical and digital spaces, often expressed through consumerist and carnal practices. In the talk I provide an overview of the most significant everyday foreign policy practices in the past decade, both before and after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Elizaveta Gaufman lehrt am Institut für „European Politics and Society” der Rijksuniversität Groningen, Niederlande. Sie ist die Autorin von „Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis“ (Palgrave, 2017), “Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation after Crimea“ (Manchester University Press, 2023) und „The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right” (De Gruyter, 2024). Zu ihren weiteren Veröffentlichungen gehören Artikel über Nationalismus, Sexualität und soziale Netzwerke sowie regelmäßige Blogbeiträge auf „The Duck of Minerva“.

Veranstalter ist das Institut für Slavistik.