Daniella Slabinski

• Slabinski, Daniella (2025). Emosjonelle regimer og protestmobilisering i Russland: en analyse av søppelprotestene i Sjies fra 2018 til 2021. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 39, p. 98–122. doi: 10.23865/noros.v39.6266. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article applies Reddy’s concept of emotional regimes as a prism through which protest mobilization in Russia after 2012 may be understood using the so-called “waste protests” in Shies as a case. Analyzing data from the regional news portal 29.ru and VKontakte posts combining contentious episode analysis and frame analysis, I examine the interaction between the Putin regime and the Shies social movement to map how emotional regimes constitute a socially contingent structure that serve as a mobilizational opportunity. The findings suggest that the Russian authorities attempted to contain the protests by engineering and sustaining a pluralism of emotional management styles grounded in what is deemed “political/apolitical”. These efforts were then perceived by the Shies movement and successfully framed as a cause for collective action.

• Flikke, Geir & Slabinski, Daniella (2024). Authoritarian Sovereignization: Russia’s Way out of the Council of Europe. Russian Politics. ISSN 2451-8913. 9(1), p. 11–51. doi: 10.30965/24518921-00901002. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Russia’s war against Ukraine and departure from the Council of Europe (CoE) in 2022 raises numerous questions about the effect of norm-diffusion in wider Europe. While inclusion in the CoE has provided litigation opportunities for Russian citizens, the process of “sovereignization” pursued by the regime has brought Russia into a downward spinning spiral of authoritarian illiberalism. This study discusses expectations derived from the hybrid regime model (containment of the domestic opposition as a driver towards full-blown authoritarianism) and from spiral theories of human rights compliance; it argues that the Putin regime has sought to seal Russia off from normative pressures from international organizations in pursuit of sovereign norms and values, and construed a separate legal space aimed at maintaining authoritarian rule indefinitely.

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• Slabinski, Daniella & Gorbacheva, Elena (2023). Public resistance in Russia: Mobilizational opportunities and the effect of protest on public attitudes. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt. Full text in Research Archive

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