ABOUT
Arve Hansen has studied linguistics in Belarus and has a PhD in East Slavic area studies from UiT – The Arctic University of Tromsø. He has researched urbanism, mass protest and culture of opposition in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, as well as the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict since 2013. Hansen has also worked for the Norwegian MFA in Kyiv and Murmansk, and done field work in Ukraine over a period of several years. He speaks Ukrainian and Russian fluently.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Revolution of Dignity, Culture and Politics, the War in Ukraine, Urbanism, Mass protest, War Crimes.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Hansen, Arve. Ukraina – historien, menneskene, krigen. Oslo: Kagge, 2022.
- Hansen, Arve. Urban Protest. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Berlin: Ibidem Verlag, 2021.
- Hansen, Arve, Y. Steinholt, Andrei Rogatchevski, and David-Emil Wickström. A war of songs: Popular music and recent Russia-Ukraine relations. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Berlin: Ibidem Verlag, 2019.