Elena Nikiforova

Researcher

PhD candidate, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland

E-mail: elena.nikiforova@fafo.no

Tel: tel +47 22088679

Work areas:
Studies of borders and border communities, transnational migration, ethnicity and nationalism

Selected publications

2001a Nikiforova, E. & J. Viktorova,  Shifting Borders within the Contested Borderland, in E. Berg (ed) Negotiating Borders of Multiple Meanings. Research Reports. Tartu University Press, pp. 65-95 

2001b Nikiforova, E. Russian Borders on the North: from Discourses to the "Field"  in Caulfield R., Kojima M. (eds) Northern Communities and Global Economy. University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, pp. 153-157  

2003a Nikiforova, E. Jaettu puoliuskoisten kansa in Idantutkimus (The Finnish Review of East European Studies), N 1, pp.56-65     

2003b Nikiforova, E. Contested Border and Identity Revival among Setus and Cossacks in the Russian-Estonian Borderland in European States at their Borderlands: Cultures of Support and Subversion in Border Regions. Donnan, H., Wilson, T (eds)  Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, N 41, pp. 71-82 

2004a  Nikiforova, E. The Disruption of Social and Geographic Space in Narva in Alapuro R., Liikanen I. & Lonkila M.(eds) Micro Perspectives on Civic Culture and Nationality in Estonia and Russia, pp. 148-164

2004b Nikiforova, E. Towards an Anthropology of Russia’s Borders: the Modern Cossack Renaissance. Ulkopolitiikka, Vol.1, N 1, pp. 92-107

2005 Nikiforova, E. Narrating ’National’ at the Margins: Seto and Cossack identity in the Russian-Estonian borderlands in European States at their Borderlands: Cultures of Support and Subversion in Border Regions. Donnan, H., Wilson, T (eds), Lit Verlag, pp. 191 – 228

2006 Kaiser, R. & E.Nikiforova. Bordeland spaces of identification and dis/location: multiscalar narratives and enactments of Seto identity and place in the Estonian-Russian borderlands In Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 29, Number 5, pp. 928-958

2008 Kaiser, R. & E. Nikiforova. The performativity of scale: the social construction of scale effects in Narva, Estonia. In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume 26, pp. 537- 562

Miscellaneous

English-to-Russian translation of the book by Anna Rotkirch, 2001. The Man’s Question: Loves and Lives in late 20th Century Russia. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications