Exploring Dynamics of Street Protests in Moscow using Video

Perrine Poupin (1)

1 CERCEC - Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen

In spite of the administrative pressures and threats, people get involved in collective mobilizations in Russia. With the aid of a camera, I offer to conduct a located analysis of these practices of demonstrations. The use of a camera allows to reveal a big quantity of at first glance obvious and insignificant sensitive facts but that constitute the depth of any experience. It allows to settle the question of "how " of a demonstration, the distribution of time, of space and of activities among those who participate in it. The practice of the camera rests on the active physical commitment of the researcher in a situation, at the root of a true Techniques of the Body which makes it attentive to the sensitive contents of particular experiments, as demonstrations.

Mots clés: Protest; Russia; Demonstrations; Visual methods

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Perrine Poupin. Exploring Dynamics of Street Protests in Moscow using Video. International Summer School “Approaches to Post-Soviet Transformations”, The Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, Jul 2010, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. ⟨hal-03133219⟩