Anne Le Huerou

Assistant professor
Université Paris Nanterre, ISP + CERCEC

Anne le Huérou is a lecturer in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at the University of Paris Nanterre since 2012. As a political sociologist, her research focuses on the transformations of contemporary (post-Soviet) Russian society based on the relationship of societies to violence and armed conflict. She is attached to ISP (Institute of Social sciences of the polity) and is an associate researcher at CERCEC.

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Research Issues

  • War, post-war and violence in the North Caucasus
  • Combatants and ex-combatants of the post-Soviet conflicts
  • Mobilization in response to police violence and reform of the police institution
  • Chechen Diaspora in Europe - War Memory and Transmission

Main Recent Publications

2021 (under publication), « память и нарратив о войне среди двух поколений чеченцев в ЕС :  опыт формирующейся диаспоры » with Aude Merlin.

2021 (Under publication) " L'Etat malgré eux : trajectoires d'anciens combattants géorgiens d'Abkhazie et fabrique de l'Etat " (with Silvia Serrano), Revue d'Études Comparatives Est-Ouest, n°2.

2019 "A memory under constraint: The commemoration of the Beslan hostage crisis", Ethnologie française, vol. 173, no. 1, 2019, pp. 103-118.

2018.“The Evolution of Prisons and Penality in the Former Soviet Union”, Power Institutions in Post soviet societies”¸n°19 (co editor with E. Sieca Kozlowski & Gavin Slade). https://journals.openedition.org/pipss/4421?lang=fr

2017 The paradoxical effects of the instrumentalization of Islam in Chechnya, International Observatory of Religion Bulletin N°12 http://www.sciencespo.fr/enjeumondial/fr/odr/les-effets-paradoxaux-de-l-instrumentalisation-de-l-islam-en-tchetchenie (with Silvia Serrano).

2017 "Kadyrov's Chechnya, an asset or a threat to the Russian state? "Revue Défense Nationale, Comité d'études de défense nationale (Paris), 2017, L'ambivalence de la puissance russe, pp.177-184. (with Aude Merlin)

2016: "Changes in the Russian and Post-Soviet World" Temporalities. Revue de Sciences Sociales et Humaines, mutations du monde russe et post-soviétique," introduction", pp.2-12 [online]. <http://temporalites.revues.org/3168 > with Natalia Leclerc. Coordination of the issue

2015. Where Does the Motherland Begin? Private and public dimensions of contemporary Russian patriotism in schools and youth organisations: A view from the field", Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 67, no. 1.

2014 Chechnya at War and Beyond Routledge, pp. 272, , Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series (with Aude Merlin, Amandine Regamey, Elisabeth Sieca Kozlowski). Chapter: "Between war experience and ordinary police rationales: state violence against civilians in post-war Chechen Republic", pp. 162-175.

Editorial Activities

Member of the editorial board of the magazine Connexes http://www.unige.ch/gsi/fr/recherche/publications-1/connexe-1/

Member of the editorial board of the journal PIPSS (power institutions in post soviet societies).

Member of the scientific council of the GDR "Russian Empire, USSR, Post-Soviet World" (GDRUS).

Member of the Board of SFERES (French Society for Eastern European and Russian Studies in Social Sciences).