Adi Kuntsman
Email: Adi.Kuntsman@manchester.ac.uk
I have graduated with a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in 2007. Before joining RICC in 2009 I worked as lecturer in Internet and Communication Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. My research interests include: migration and diaspora; nationalism, racism and coloniality; Israel/Palestine; queer migrations; cybercultures; gender, sexuality and class in Soviet Union and post-Soviet émigré diaspora; sexual politics of Gulag historiography.
My current research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, continues my long-term interest in the relations between violence, affect, transnationality and the Internet. An Ethnography of Cyberhate: Internet, Transnationalism and Affect explores the relations between technology, politics and diasporic connections and ruptures that are formed at the time of mass migration, nationalised and globalised 'wars on terror', fanatism, extremism, and the increasing use of information-communication technologies within and across geo-political borders. Addressing mediated horizons of violence, conflict and cosmopolitan anxieties, my research explores the way digital media shapes our affective responses to wars, dehumanisation and death.
For more details on other research projects and events, please visit my website.
Publications
Books
2009 Figurations of Violence and Belonging: queerness, migranthood and nationalism in cyberspace and beyond, Oxford: Peter Lang.
2008 Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality, (co-edited with Esperanza Miyake), York: Raw Nerve Books.
Journal articles
Forthcoming ‘Webs of hate in diasporic cyberspaces: The Gaza War in the Russian-language Blogosphere’, Media, War and Conflict, 3 (3).
2010 ‘"With a shade of disgust": Affective politics of sexuality and class in memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag’, Slavic Review.
2009 ‘The Currency of Victimhood in Uncanny Homes: Russian-speaking Queer Immigrants in Israel Confront Homophobia’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (1), pp. 133-149.
2008 ‘The Soldier and the Terrorist: Sexy Nationalism, Queer Violence’, Sexualities, 11 (1), pp.159-187.
2008 ‘Between Gulags and Pride Parades: Sexuality, Nation and Haunted Speech Acts’, GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 14 (2-3), pp. 263-287.
2008 ‘Written in Blood: Contested Borders and the Politics of Passing in Israel/Palestine and in Cyberspace’, Feminist Media Studies, 8 (3), pp. 267-283.
2003 ‘Double Homecoming: Sexuality, Ethnicity and Place in Immigration Stories of Russian Lesbians in Israel’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 26 (4), pp. 299-311.
Book chapters
Forthcoming ‘"A place by the latrine"? Sexuality, nationalism, violence and belonging’, in Julia Lerner and Rivka Feldhay (eds.), Russians in Israel and Beyond, Jerusalem: Van Leer.
2010 (with Rebecca L. Stein) 'Another War Zone: Social Media in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict', Middle East Report, September 2010.
2010 ‘“Disgusting creatures”: Sexual politics of disgust in memoirs of Gulag survivors’, Jan Plamper, Schamma Schahadat and Marc Elie(eds.), Russian Empire of Feelings: Approaches to the Cultural History of Emotionsi, Moscow: NLO (In Russian).
2008 ‘Genealogies of Hate, Metonymies of Violence: Immigration, Homophobia, Homopatriotism’, in Esperanza Miyake and Adi Kuntsman (eds.), Out Of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality, York: Raw Nerve Books.
2007 ‘Hospitality in flames: queer immigrants and melancholic be/longing’, in Jennie Germann Molz and Sarah Gibson (eds.), Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World, Aldershot: Ashgate, 145-158.
2007 ‘Belonging through violence: Flaming, erasure and performativity in queer migrant community’, in Kate O’Riordan and David J Phillips (eds.), Queers Online: Media technology and sexuality, New York: Peter Lang, 101-122.
2004 ‘From "Sexless in Russia" to "Proud Israeli Lesbian": Immigration Stories of Coming Out’, in Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Erella Shadmi (eds.), Sappho in Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel, Suny Press, New York, 153-171.
On-line articles
2008 'Shadows of the Past: Memoirs of the Gulags and Contemporary Homophobia', Kultura.
2008 ‘Queerness as Europeanness: Immigration, Orientalist Visions and Racialised Encounters in Israel/Palestine’, Dark Matter, 3.
2007 ‘"Error: No Such Entry": Haunted Ethnographies of On-line Archives’, M/C: Journal of Media and Culture, 10 (5) October 2007.
2004 ‘Cyberethnography as Home-Work’, Anthropology Matters, 6 (2).