Shortlist of the Congress Prize in the social and political sciences announced

Dear colleagues,

The shortlist of the next International Congress of Belarusian Studies Prize for the best scholarly publication in the social and political sciences has been announced.

The final winners will be determined and the award ceremony will take place during the Fifth International Congress of Belarusian Studies, on 2–4 October 2015 in Kaunas (Lithuania).

In the near future, the shortlists of the honorary Congress Prize for the best foreign monograph on Belarusian topics will also be publicly announced.

Articles:
Anastasiya Astapova. “Вот народ, без батьки уже и картошку перебрать не могут”: Belarusian political and ethnic jokes.

Antropologicheskii forum. 2014. No. 1.

pp. 252–294.

Tsatsiana Kulakevich.

Twenty Years in the Making: Understanding the Difficulty for Change in Belarus // East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. 2014. 28 (4).

pp. 887–901.

Aliaksei Lastouski, Nadzeya Yafimava.

The origins of national statehood in Belarusian historical memory // ARCHE. 2013. No. 2.

pp. 411–448.

Nastassia Matchanka.

Substitution of civil society in Belarus: non-governmental organizations organized by the state // The Journal of Belarusian Studies. 2014.

pp. 76–105.

Razaliya Smirnova.

Value foundations of the professional choice of young specialists in Belarus’s agricultural sphere // Sociological Almanac. 2014.

Issue 5.

pp. 384–392.