Ivan studied at Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia), Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, and got his PhD from the Ideology and Discourse Analysis Programme at the Department of Government, University of Essex. His field of interests include:
Russian studies, with a focus on post-Soviet Russia;
Qualitative methods of sociological research;
Social theory, and in particular, everything related to the role of language and communication in social and political organisation (post-Marxism, post-structuralism, discourse analysis, philosophy of language);
Popular culture and new media.
He has previously worked as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (1998), Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflicts, University of Bochum, Germany (2004-2006), and was teaching at the University of the West of England in Bristol (2007).
He has been participating in a number of academic projects, such as Far from the cities social transformation of the post-Soviet village German Research Council 2002-2005 and The Role of Regions in Transforming Post-Communist Societies INTAS 1999-2002, and currently is working on an AHRC funded project on Post-Socialist Punk.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Gololobov, I.(2008)
Regional ideologies in Russia: in search of a post-Soviet identity
(9783639090369) Saarbruecken: VDM Publishing
Gololobov, I.(2008) 'The Soviet people: the rise and fall of an ideological federalism'
in
Defunct federalisms: critical perspectives on federal failure,
145 - 156,
Editors:
Kavalski, E. and Zolkos, M. (9780754649847), Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Dr Ivan Gololobov(2004) 'Der Kampf um die nationale Identität Russlands im post-sowjetischen Russland'
in
Alfred Shobert und Siegfried Jäger (Hg.), Mythos Identität: Fiktion mit Folgen,
89 - 117, Münster: Unrast Verlag
