Marina Yusupova
marina yusupova

Dr Marina Yusupova

Lecturer

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University.

I have a keen interest in postcolonial and decolonial feminist perspectives, men and masculinities studies, critical race theory, and decolonising western epistemologies of knowledge production in social sciences. My current research documents the relationship between gender, race and coloniality in the post-socialist contexts.

In 2021-2022, I was a postdoctoral scholar on the EU Horizon 2020 TARGETED-MPI project at Lancaster University aiming to advance gender equality in Business and Management Schools through fostering inclusive academic cultures and integrating gender sensitive perspective in research, teaching and innovation content. My specific focus within the project was to lead development and implementation of a bespoke Gender Equality Plan for Lancaster University Management School, and research practical and theoretical approaches to organisational culture change.

In 2018-2021, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the project ‘Women Elite Leaders’ at Newcastle University. In collaboration with Professor Sharon Mavin, I explored women leaders’ narratives of competition in the UK and the gendered implications of workplace competition under neoliberalism. I was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Researcher of the Year at Newcastle University Business School for research outputs, several media appearances, and service to the University in the academic year 2019/2020.

I have previously been the Aleksanteri Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland (2019) and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stony Brook University, USA (2011-2012).

I obtained my first degree in Sociology from Samara State University (Russia) in 2006, and a PhD in Sociology (Russian Studies) from the University of Manchester in 2017.

I am a Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy.

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Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women Leaders Self-Positioning

Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (in press)
Jostling Discourses of Competition: Women Leaders Self-Positioning. Organization Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241236606
This study addresses the lack of research into social processes of competition in organizations and explores women leaders self-positioning in relation to the discourses of ge...

Rethinking ‘traditional masculinity’

Other
Yusupova, M. (2024)
Rethinking ‘traditional masculinity’. [Magazine]. London
Does the concept of ‘traditional masculinity’ risk marginalising migrant men and those living in ‘non-Western’ parts of the world?

‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces

Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (in press)
‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces. Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12939
This paper investigates how women leaders in the UK negotiate claims of being competitive by internalizing competition. Competition is a critical component in neoliberal conte...

Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques

Journal Article
Yusupova, M. (in press)
Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques. Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221110724
This article explores how the legacy of European colonialism and its role in transforming gender relations globally, shapes post-Soviet Russian masculinities. It points to his...

The Invisibility of Race in Sociological Research on Contemporary Russia: A Decolonial Intervention

Journal Article
Yusupova, M. (2021)
The Invisibility of Race in Sociological Research on Contemporary Russia: A Decolonial Intervention. Slavic Review, 80(2), 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.77
This essay provides a critical decolonial intervention into the prevalent state of racial exceptionalism in mainstream sociological research on contemporary Russia. Following ...

Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity

Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2020)
Gendered experiences of leading and managing through COVID-19: patriarchy and precarity. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 35(7/8), 737-744. https://doi.org/10.1108/gm-09-2020-0274
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues for women managers, leaders and precarious academic women during COVID-19 in organisations and in academy. Design...

Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production

Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2021)
Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production. Management Learning, 52(1), 86-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620950176
This article is an intervention in current trends of thinking about competition and gender in essentialist and stereotypical ways. Such thinking has produced numerous comparat...

Pussy Riot: Feminist Band Lost in History and Translation

Book Chapter
Yusupova, M. (2019)
Pussy Riot: Feminist Band Lost in History and Translation. In T. Oren, & A. Press (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315728346-20
The Pussy Riot story is clearly a story the West wanted to hear. Western journalists, politicians, and celebrities were unanimously inspired by the youthfulness and rebellion ...

Gender and Choice after Socialism

Book
Attwood, L., Schimpfössl, E., & Yusupova, M. (Eds.)
(2018). Gender and Choice after Socialism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73661-7
The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to ...

Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: ‘Masculine’ Choice in Post-Soviet Russia

Book Chapter
Yusupova, M. (2018)
Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: ‘Masculine’ Choice in Post-Soviet Russia. In L. Attwood, E. Schimpfössl, & M. Yusupova (Eds.), Gender and Choice After Socialism (187-215). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73661-7_8
This chapter looks into two paradoxes of the post-Soviet Russian gender order and post-Soviet Russian masculinities. The first paradox is a large-scale, well-documented struct...