Basic Info

First Name
Richard
Last Name
Mole
Affiliation
UCL
Countries
Russia, Poland, Germany, Baltic States
Field
Sociology, International Relations

Scholar's Bio

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Position
Senior Lecturer in Political Sociology
Short Bio

My research focuses the relationship between identity and power, with particular reference to nationalism, sexualities, migration and diaspora. It is explicitly interdisciplinary, crossing the boundaries of Sociology, International Relations, Social Psychology and Socio-Linguistics. I have a strong theoretical interest in discourse – particularly, the post-structuralist discourse theories of Laclau and Mouffe – and a regional interest in Russia, Poland and Germany and increasingly on Brazil and other Latin American societies. 

Website, Blog, or Social Media Link
www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/richard-mole
Period
Contemporary
Languages
Russian, German, Polish
Recent/Major Publications

Mole, R.C.M. (ed.) (2019) Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities. London: Routledge

Mole, R.C.M. (2019) ‘The Post-Communist Identity Crisis and Queer Migration from Poland’ in Menjivar, C., Ness, I. and Ruiz, M. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Mole, R.C.M. (2019) ‘Queer Russian asylum-seekers in Germany: worthy refugees and acceptable forms of harm?’ in Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. (ed.) Refuge in a Moving World. London: UCL Press [forthcoming]

Mole, R.C.M (2018) ‘Identity, belonging and solidarity in the Russian-speaking queer diaspora in Berlin’, Slavic Review, vol. 77, no. 1, 77-98

Mole, R.C.M., Gerry, C.J., Parutis, V. and Burns, F.M. (2017) ‘Migration and sexual resocialisation: the case of Central and East European in London, East European Politics and Societies, vol. 31, no. 1, 201–222