Sergei Prozorov is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. His research interests include political philosophy, theories of democracy and totalitarianism, biopolitics and governance.
Lukuaika: 6 min. Alex Gibney’s documentary Citizen K presents the story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s rise to prominence and his eventual fall from grace. Yet, there is something amiss in this narrative of the rise and fall of the oligarch – namely, the concept of oligarch and oligarchy itself.
[Lue lisää] Lukuaika: 7 min. The reality depicted in the film has precious little to do with Hobbes’s ‘common power to keep them all in awe’.
[Lue lisää] Lukuaika: 5 min. Recent events in Ukraine constituted a genuine revolution in the sense of the self-assertion of popular sovereignty.
[Lue lisää] Lukuaika: 8 min. On August 17, 2012 three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
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