Polling Station Ethnography
Each polling station in Russia should have cameras recording everything that happens during elections and vote counting. This project is an anthropological case-study of electoral behavior of voters, based on careful observation and analysis of video footage from polling stations in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad oblast during municipal elections on the 8th of September 2019. These observations will provide researchers with insights into the ethnomethodology of voting and the understanding of demographic aspects of elections as well as subjective framing of events that are superficially and formally identified as ‘elections’.
Project duration: 20 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
Our team:
Principal Investigator at NRU HSE: Alexey Kuprianov, Associate Professor
Research Collaborator: Galina Selivanova, researcher at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnResearch team:
Chakaberia Tsotne, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
Chernogubov Aleksandr, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
Edelstein Henry Thomas Nathaniel, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
Gori Marco, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2019-2021
Guschin Daniil, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2019-2021
Henry-Gabriel Alan, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
Meijer Marianne Elise, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
Seager Marius Emmanuel, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
Sharov Boris, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2019-2021
Xian Mengxue, MA Student at Business and Politics in Modern Asia, 2018-2020
Website Management:
Slovogorodskiy Nikita, MA Student at Comparative Politics of Eurasia, 2018-2020
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