Denys Gorbach email: [email protected] tel: +33781700528 12 avenue du Général Leclerc, 92340 Bourg-la-Reine,

Education Sep 2017 – Present Sciences Po Paris PhD candidate in political science, attached to Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Society (MaxPo) and Centre of European Studies (CEE)  Research topic: Power configurations, politico-economic landscape, and populist claim- making in an industrial of post-Soviet  Supervisors: Jenny Andersson, Gilles Favarel-Garrigues

2015 – 2017 Central European University, Budapest, MA degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology, with Global and Urban Studies Specialization (with distinction)  Thesis title: Underground Waterlines: Explaining Political Quiescence of Ukrainian Trade Unions  Supervisors: Don Kalb, Ju Li

2004 – 2007 National University of -Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Master's degree in Philosophy

2000 – 2004 National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Bachelor of Political Science Teaching experience Fall 2020 Research Workshop: Qualitative Methods of Social Inquiry Sciences Po Reims campus, own course

2020-2021 Capstone Project (Parcours civique) Sciences Po Reims campus, academic advisor

March 2020 Studying post-Soviet (re)productive labour through an ethnographic lens Labour-atory: research school on contemporary concepts and empirical approaches in labour studies (Moscow), own course (co-authored with Volodymyr Artiukh and Oksana Dutchak)

March 2020 Labour, value, money: The great theoretical debate Labour-atory: research school on contemporary concepts and empirical approaches in labour studies (Moscow), own course (co-authored with Volodymyr Artiukh and Oksana Dutchak)

Fall 2019 Research Workshop: Qualitative Methods of Social Inquiry Sciences Po Reims campus, own course

Fall 2019 Comparative Politics Sciences Po Paris campus, course of Laura Morales, seminar groups

Fall 2018 The Great Transition – Responsibility, Innovation, Commons Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation, course of Marie-Laure Djelic, Dominique Cardon and Eloi Laurent, TA

Main research areas Political economy, social movements, labour, nationalism, class

Fieldwork Jan-July 2019 Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine Participant observation including employment at a factory. Interviews with workers of industrial enterprises

June-Aug 2018 Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine Interviews with workers of large industrial enterprises

Jan-Mar 2017 Kyiv, Ukraine Interviews with workers of Kyiv and Kyivenergo as well as with labour union officials

Professional experience Jun 2015 - Present openDemocracy.net Contributor to the section covering Eastern Europe and former https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/denys-gorbach/

Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 Centre.UA NGO, Kyiv, Ukraine Economic analyst  Comparative project on policy analysis in the former Soviet Union and the EU  Preparing analytical materials on Ukraine's European integration (Stronger Together campaign)

Sep 2008 – Nov 2014 Biznes weekly magazine, Kyiv, Ukraine Assignment Editor, Writer (macroeconomic policies, energy markets, politics, and international economy)

Sep 2007 – Sep 2008 Glavred weekly magazine, Kyiv, Ukraine Observer of international politics and social issues

Sep 2006 – June 2007 Obozrevatel.ua news portal, Kyiv, Ukraine Reporter on international politics

June 2005 – Apr 2006 Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc headquarters, Kyiv, Ukraine Chief Editor of the bloc's website byut.com.ua

Conferences and seminars 27 November 2020 EHESS seminar “L’autoritarisme en question. Gouverner et s’engager dans les sociétés post- soviétiques” (Paris). Presentation on “Divergent trajectories of factory regimes in a Ukrainian industrial town: looking for stable configurations”

20-22 November 2019 Workshop, “Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process: Comparative Perspectives” (Goettingen). Presentation on “Varieties of informality and hegemony at “old” and “new” industrial workplaces in Ukraine”

30 Sep-1 Oct 2019 EASA Anthropology of Labour network conference, “Key issues in the anthropology of labour in the context of flexible capitalism” (Amsterdam). Presentation on “Informality, voice and exit at “new” and “old” factories in Ukraine”

17-19 September 2019 Workshop, “From Economic to Political Informality: Exploring the Link Between Shadow Practices, Policy Making and Development” (Lund). Presentation on “The crisis of hegemonic informality in Ukraine: from the shopfloor to the national scale”

7-10 November 2018 Conference, “Spaces and Places in Transition: Urban and Rural Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe” (Prague). Presentation on “Housing in Post-Soviet Kiev: Approaches to theorising” (paper co-authored with Aliona Liasheva)

22-25 August 2018 2018 ECPR General Conference (Hamburg). Presentation on “Illegitimate but Hegemonic: Trade Unions as Political Representatives of Ukrainian Labour”. Chairing the panel on “Social Movements and Mobilization of Political Identities”

20-22 July 2018 Conference, “Housing Financialization on the Semi-Periphery: Variations on a Global Process” (Budapest). Presentation on “Theorising socio-spatial transformations in Kiev” (paper co-authored with Aliona Liasheva). Chairing the panel on “Economic holdings and housing financialization in Latin American ”

25-30 June 2018 9th International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine (Zaporizhzhia). Presentation on “Periodising Ukrainian Political Economy: From ‘Merchant Capitalism’ to the Post-Maidan Conjuncture”

24-27 May 2018 Conference, “Workers beyond Socialist Glorification and Post-Socialist Disavowal: New Perspectives on Eastern European Labour History” (Vienna). Presentation on “Post-Soviet Unionism: Beyond ‘Labour Weakness’ and ‘Socialist Legacies’”

16-18 May 2018 MaxPo Workshop, “Historicizing Neoliberalism” (Paris). Presentation on “Populist Mobilisation and Claim-Making in the Post-Maidan Ukraine”

3-5 May 2018 Association for Studies of Nationalities 23rd Annual World Convention, Columbia University (New York). Presentation on “Explaining Political Quiescence of Ukrainian Labour Unions”

21-23 March 2018 10th Graduate Network Conference, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (Berlin). Presentation on “Populist Mobilisation and Claim-Making in the Post-Maidan Ukraine” Publications

Journal articles  Gorbach, Denys. 2020. “Changing Patronage and Informality Configurations in Ukraine: From the Shop Floor Upwards”. Studies of Transition States and Societies 12(1):3–15.  Gorbach, Denys. 2019. “Underground Waterlines: Explaining Political Quiescence of Ukrainian Labor Unions.” Focaal (84):33-46.  Gorbach, Denys and Oles Petik. 2016. “Azovskiy Shlyakh: Kak Ul’trapravoye Dvizheniye Boretsya Za Mesto v Politicheskom Meinstrime Ukrainy [The Azov Road: How the Far Right Movement Fights for Its Place in Ukraine’s Political Mainstream].” Forum Noveishei Vostochnoevropeiskoi Istorii I Kul’tury 13(1)  Gorbach, Denys. 2014. “Pro Try Svity, Zmagannia Zhertv i Politekonomiyu [On the Three Worlds, the Victims Competition and Political Economy].” Spilne (7):173–91.  Gorbach, Denys. 2012. “Produktyvnist’ Praci I Klasova Ekspluataciya v Ukrayini [Labour Productivity and Class Exploitation in Ukraine].” Spilne (4):42–51.

Book chapters  Gorbach, Denys. Forthcoming. “Die Poststalinistische Arbeitswelt Als Grundlage Für Die Politische Apathie Der Bevölkerung in Der Neuen Ukraine.” in 100 Jahre Ukrainer – Narrative jenseits des historischen Mainstreams. Köln/Wien: Böhlau.  Gorbach, Denys. 2015. “Stosunky praci ta kapitalu v Ukrayini: dvi real’nosti [Labour-Capital Relations in Ukraine: Two Realities].” Pp. 225–41 in 20 rokiv kapitalizmu v Ukrayini: Istoriya odniyeyi iliuziyi (20 Years of Capitalism in Ukraine: The History of an Illusion). Kyiv: ART KNYGA.

Public sociology publications

 Gorbach, Denys. 2020. “Middle class populism in Ukraine: looking for the “real people”.” openDemocracy. Retrieved September 1, 2020 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/middle-class-populism-in-ukraine- looking-for-the-real-people).  Gorbach, Denys. 2019. “Voting hard: Ukraine braces for a fateful presidential election.” openDemocracy. Retrieved November 14, 2019 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/voting-hard-ukraine-braces-fateful- presidential-election).  Gorbach, Denys. 2018. “Entrepreneurs of political violence: the varied interests and strategies of the far-right in Ukraine.” openDemocracy. Retrieved November 16, 2018 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/od- /denys-gorbach/entrepreneurs-of-political-violence-ukraine-far-right).  Gorbach, Denys and Budraitskis, Ilya. 2017. “Dreams of Europe: refugees and xenophobia in Russia and Ukraine.” openDemocracy. Retrieved November 16, 2018 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/denys- gorbach-ilya-budraitskis/dreams-of-europe-refugees-and-xenophobia-in-russia-and-ukra).  Gorbach, Denys. 2016. “After the Ban: A Short ’s Communist Party.” openDemocracy. Retrieved October 12, 2016 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/denys-gorbach/after-ban-short- history-of-ukraine-s-communist-party).  Gorbach, Denys. 2016. “Coup Talk in Ukraine.” openDemocracy. Retrieved October 12, 2016 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/denys-gorbach/coup-talk-in-ukraine).  Gorbach, Denys and Oles Petik. 2016. “The Rise of Azov.” openDemocracy. Retrieved October 12, 2016 (https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/denys-gorbach-oles-petik/rise-of-azov).  Gorbach, Denys. 2016. “Antropologiya Social’nogo Dialoga: Profsoyuzy, Incest, Gabitus, Naciya [The Anthropology of Social Dialogue: Trade Unions, Incest, Habitus, Nation].” Nihilist. Retrieved October 12, 2016 (http://www.nihilist.li/2016/03/11/7640/).  Gorbach, Denys. 2014. “Ukrainskyi natsionalizm: syre i varene [Ukrainian nationalism: the raw and the cooked].” Retrieved July 11, 2015 (http://www.nihilist.li/2014/08/23/ukrayins-kij-natsionalizm-sire-i-varene/).  Gorbach, Denys. 2013. “Ukrayins’ka Specyfika: Bez Neoliberalizmu [Ukrainian Specificity: No Neoliberalism].” Commons: Journal of Social Criticism. Retrieved October 11, 2016 [http://commons.com.ua/en/ukrayinska- spetsifika-bez-neoliberal/]. Book translations (English-Russian)

 Pirani, Simon. 2008. The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24 : Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.  Carley, Michael Jabara. 2014. Silent Conflict: A Hidden History of Early Soviet-Western Relations. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Voluntary activities Since 2018 Spilne/Commons journal of social critique, member of the editorial board 2014-2015 Bezpartshkola (Non-Party School) public education project, lecturer on the political economy of energy markets 2009-2014 Spilne/Commons journal of social critique, contributor; editor of the 7th issue (The Second World)

Fellowships and Trainings 2017-2020 Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, doctoral fellowship 2015-2017 Central European University, Master's Scholarship

Language Skills Russian-Ukrainian bilingual English – fluent French – C1 Turkish, Spanish, Polish, German – B1