Overview
- Pays particular attention to the dramatic rise in the study of LGBTQ+ across Eurasia
- Celebrates Dan Healey’s achievements as a founder of Queer Studies within REES
- Analyses changes that Queer Studies have and continue to bring to the broader field of REES
Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)
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This volume honors the work of Dan Healey in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES), reflecting the full range of his research interests, from Soviet and Russian history of sexuality to the studies of medicine and the Gulag. The volume includes contributions from Healey’s former students and colleagues, who together represent several generations, diverse genders and sexualities, multiple national traditions, and a variety of academic disciplines. Its fourteen essays pay special attention to his influence in crossing, breaching, and even breaking the disciplinary, geopolitical, and generational boundaries that have defined REES since the Cold War.
Contributions to the volume demonstrate how Healey’s influence has not simply broadened the scope of REES overall, but just as importantly aided in current efforts to decolonize the field. As a result, the volume offers a provocative survey of contemporary research into the questions of power and sexuality, medical expertise, and archival methods. As such, it will appeal to both students and researchers interested in these topics.
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About the editors
Julie A. Cassiday teaches at Williams College in Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on performance in Russian and Soviet culture, and she has published two monographs, The Enemy on Trial (2000) and Russian Style (2023). She also helped to edit the award-winning volume of essays, Russian Performances (2018). Her current research examines a genre of popular romance called boys love in Russophone space.
Alexander Sasha Kondakov is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. His experience includes positions at the University of Helsinki, the European University at St. Petersburg, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kondakov’s work is focused on law and queer sexualities. His latest research on violence against LGBTQ+ people in Russia concluded with an open-access book, Violent Affections (2022). Alexander’s current research is focused on the conceptualization of queer dystopia as method.
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Bibliographic information
Book title: Sex, Surveillance, and Survival
Book subtitle: Essays in Honor of Dan Healey
Editors: Julie A. Cassiday, Alexander Sasha Kondakov
Series title: St Antony's Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Copyright information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-032-27169-3Due: 01 November 2026
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-032-27172-3Due: 01 November 2027
eBook ISBN: 978-3-032-27170-9Due: 11 October 2026
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: XVI, 285
Number of illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Keywords
- LGBTQ+
- Russian Politics
- Eastern Europe
- Medical history
- Queer Studies