Olena Lyubchenko
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Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at York University and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her work draws on Marxist critique of political economy and focuses on the Soviet Union in a global context. She writes about neoliberal restructuring and financialisation of social reproduction, racialisation and citizenship in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, as well as labour relations in settler-colonial Canada. Olena is an editor at RedThreads.
Olena Lyubchenko
ASSOCIATE
Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at York University and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her work draws on Marxist critique of political economy and focuses on the Soviet Union in a global context. She writes about neoliberal restructuring and financialisation of social reproduction, racialisation and citizenship in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, as well as labour relations in settler-colonial Canada. Olena is an editor at RedThreads.
From post-Soviet poor to poor white-ish: the political economy of the settler-colonial Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travelprogram
Following Donald Trump’s recent election victory in the US and his threat of 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico, the liberal Justin Trudeau government in
VII. ReBuild Ukraine: powered by de-risking neoliberalism
On April 21, 2022, only two months after Russia’s invasion, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, issued a decree establishing the National Council for the
ReBuild Ukraine: neoliberal reforms, energy and post-war pathways
Read the new short report by our affiliate researcher Olena Lyubchenko examining trends in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction. The report analyses the November 2023 ReBuild Ukraine
V / Russian capitalism is both political and normal: On expropriation and social reproduction
In 2006, in his book The Development of Capitalism in Russia, the late sociologist Simon Clarke wrote that, “a voluntaristic and dualistic approach, which analyses
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