Gender, resilience and recognition: masculinities and transitions out of care in Russia
Through a gender lens, Charlie Walker explores processes of social inclusion and exclusion of young men leaving care in Russia.
Gender, resilience and recognition: masculinities and transitions out of care in Russia
22 May 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in 2018–2019, the seminar highlights the ways young men adopt different versions of masculinity as they experience and perceive forms of recognition and misrecognition both in the present and the future, and the import this has for processes of social exclusion and inclusion.
Charlie combines insights from the sociology of masculinities with recent theorising around the concepts of resilience and recognition in inter-disciplinary research on leaving care.
He argues that, while recognition theory has become central to social and ecological understandings of resilience, applications have focused on emotional and legal rather than social recognition, which better illuminates the wider social and cultural contexts, in this case surrounding gender, framing young people’s transitions and identity construction. In turn, this approach facilitates a perspective on the ‘social resilience’ of care leavers as a marginalised group in a particular national context.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers, sociologists, anthropologists, policymakers, and scholars of Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia.
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Associate Professor in the Comparative Sociology of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia
University of Southampton
He is a comparative sociologist with interests in social change and social inequality in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
His research is located primarily within the sociology of youth and sociology of masculinities, and has addressed transformations relating to employment, education, social protection, youth transitions, and civil-military relations.
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