US media play an important role in the rekindled debates about cultural values and national identities as between America and Russia. – A battle waged on the back of minorities, as demonstrated by a current research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Continue reading “The American view of Russia”
Life as a shift-worker, far from home, is usually considered problematic and often described in such terms. An interdisciplinary project funded by the FWF focuses on the Russian petroleum industry to study the complex interconnections in long-distance commuting and reconstituting the normality of a life between extremes. Continue reading “At the far end of the pipeline – Long-distance commuting as a way of life”