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Alexander Osipov is an independent scholar also affiliated with the International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies (Czechia) and the Åland Islands Peace Institute (Finland).He was a Senior Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany), heading ECMI’s Justice & Governance Cluster (September 2010-May 2017) following his work in the Russian Academy of Sciences and in the Human Rights Centre ‘Memorial’. His current research deals with autonomy arrangements, the (de)territorialization of ethnicity, diaspora issues and diversity policies. He is also doing research on late communist and post-communist transformation. He has more than 140 academic and applied publications. Among these are Institutional Legacies of Communism – Change and Continuities in Minority Protection, New York, NY: Routledge, 2013 (ed. with Karl Cordell and Timofey Agarin); The Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy: Theory and Practice, Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2013 (ed. with Ephraim Nimni and David J. Smith); and Policies of Ethno-Cultural Diversity Management in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine: between Soviet Legacies and European Standards (2014, with Nikolai Bespamiatnykh et al.), Vilnius: European Humanities University (in Russian).

He focuses on the symbolic production of diversity, simulation politics and the ideas of ethnic 'rootedness', or autochthony, particularly in connection with indigenous agendas.

Works

"(2024) “The Anatomy of Consent: The State and Formerly Deported Peoples in Russia”, Europe-Asia Studies 76 (6), 909-931. 

(2023) (together with Vladimir Malakhov) “Managing Ethnic Diversity in Post-Soviet Context: The Cases of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan”, Problems of Post-Communism 71 (5), 405-415

(2023) “Crimea in Ukraine: Smoothing the Edges as Diversity Institutionalization”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 29 (2), 204-223

(2023) “Historical Legacies in Eurasian Diaspora and Compatriot Policies”, Hungarian Journal of Minority Studies, Vol.5 (2022), 7-30

(2022) “Mapping Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements”, Ethnopolitics, 21 (5), 561-580

(2021) “Non-territorial Autonomy in Northern Eurasia: Rooted or Alien?”, Nationalities Papers 51 (1), 205–222

(2021) (with Vladimir Malakhov) “The dynamics of ethnocultural policies in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine: a postponed ‘nationalisation’?”, Mir Rossii 2 (30), 26-47 (in Russian)

(2019) “Territorial autonomy as a tool of minority accommodation in the post-Soviet space: the cases of Ukraine and Moldova”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 19 (2), 187-206

(2019) (with Hanna Vasilevich) “Transnistian nation-building: a case of effective diversity policies?”, Nationalities Papers 47 (6), 983-999

(2019) “The Agendas of Equality on Ethnic Grounds in the Post-Soviet Space”, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 5 (2), 36-59