Urban Activism In Eastern Europe And Eurasia

Author : Tsypylma Darieva,Neugebauer Carola S.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3869227397

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Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia by Tsypylma Darieva,Neugebauer Carola S. Pdf

With the rise of grassroots initiatives in urban spaces across Eastern Europe and Eurasia in recent decades, Urban Activism in Eurasia approaches central questions: what are distinctive features and the dynamic of urban activism in contemporary post-Soviet cities? What are the strategies and practices of an urban civic engagement that evolves on a micro level and in larger scale processes? A variety of group and individuals claims to the city space and its development, finding their own ways to initiate local urban change. The volume challenges the prevailing simplistic view of weak, passive and scared citizens in Eastern European and Eurasian cities, which are often seen to be predominantly shaped by neo-liberal and authoritarian structures. Instead, we argue for the vibrant diversity and dynamism in the contemporary urban civic activism in Eurasia. Employing diverse sources such as intriguing photographs, interviews with local activists and scholarly reports from the field of anthropology, planning, architecture, political sciences and sociology, the edited volume explores the creativity and novelty of Eurasian urban grass roots activism. Drawing on these multi-disciplinary perspectives, the volume hopes to overcome distances and trigger dialogues in several respects and realms: among the interested public, activists, 'urban decision makers' and scholars in East and West, North and South alike.

Author : Professor Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472434487

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Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe by Professor Kerstin Jacobsson Pdf

What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect the diversity and complexity of post-socialist urban movements, capturing also the extent to which the laboratory of urban politics is richly illustrative of the complex nexus of state-society-market relations within post-socialism. The grassroots campaigns and actions reflect the new social cleavages and increased polarisation as a consequence of neoliberal urbanisation and global integration, as well as the transformation of state power and authority in the region. Studying urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe is instructive for urban movements scholars generally, as it forces us to acknowledge the variety of forms that contention can take and the usefulness of embedding the study of urban movements within a larger understanding of civil society.

Author : Jeremy Morris,Andrei Semenov,Regina Smyth
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253065483

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Varieties of Russian Activism by Jeremy Morris,Andrei Semenov,Regina Smyth Pdf

Despite decades under Putin's rule, it is too simplistic to assert that authoritarianism in Russia has eliminated activism, especially in relation to everyday life. Instead, we must build an awareness of diverse efforts to mobilize citizens to better understand how activism is shaped by and, in turn, shapes the regime. Varieties of Russian Activism focuses on a broad range of collective actions addressing issues from labor organizing to housing renovation, religion, electoral politics, minority language rights, and urban planning. Contributors draw attention to significant forms of grassroots politics that have not received sufficient attention in scholarship or that deserve fresh examination. The volume shows that Russians find novel ways to redress everyday problems and demand new services. Together, these essays interrogate what kinds of practices can be defined as activism in a fast-changing, politically volatile society. An engaging collection, Varieties of Russian Activism unites leading scholars in the common aim of approaching the embeddedness of civic activism in the conditions of everyday life, connectedness, and rising society-state expectations.

Author : Gülçin Coşkun,Tuba İnal-Çekiç,Ertuğ Tombuş
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003847984

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Reclaiming Democracy in Cities by Gülçin Coşkun,Tuba İnal-Çekiç,Ertuğ Tombuş Pdf

Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate change. Reclaiming Democracy in Cities frames the city as a political actor in its own right, exploring the city’s potential to develop deliberative and participatory practices which help inform innovative democratic solutions to modern day challenges. Bringing together expertise from an international selection of scholars from various fields, this book begins with three chapters which discuss the theoretical idea of the democratic city and the real-world applicability of such a model. Part II discusses new and innovative democratic practices at the local level and asks in what way these practices help us to rethink democratic politics, institutions, and mechanisms in order to move toward a more egalitarian, pluralist, and inclusive direction. Drawing on the Istanbul municipal elections and the Kurdish municipal experience, Part III focuses on the question of whether cities and local governments can lead to the emergence of strong democratic forces that oppose authoritarian regimes. Finally, Part IV discusses urban solidarity networks and collaborations at both the local level and beyond the nation, questioning whether urban solidarity networks and alliances with civil society or transnational city networks can create alternative ways of thinking about the city as a locus of democracy. This edited volume will appeal to academics, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of urban studies, particularly those with an interest in democratic theory; local democracy; participation and municipalities. It will also be relevant for practitioners of local governments, NGOs, and advocacy groups and activists working for solidarity networks between cities.

Author : Valentin Mihaylov,Mikhail Ilchenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000645668

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Post-Utopian Spaces by Valentin Mihaylov,Mikhail Ilchenko Pdf

Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely book explores ‘ideal’ socialist cities and their transformation under new socio-economic and political conditions after the fall of communism. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book prioritises objective scientific knowledge and presents expert rethinking of the historical experience of urban planning in the former socialist countries of Eurasia. It draws on carefully selected examples of iconic cities of socialist modernism, from the post-Soviet space, Central Europe, and the Balkans. The book explores the ongoing transformation of these cities: from uniformed urban environment to chaotic post-modernist planning, from industrialisation to touristification, from deideologisation to making new and still highly contested heritage. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in urban studies, human geography, sociology, social anthropology, spatial planning, and architectural practice.

Author : Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317003854

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Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe by Kerstin Jacobsson Pdf

What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect the diversity and complexity of post-socialist urban movements, capturing also the extent to which the laboratory of urban politics is richly illustrative of the complex nexus of state-society-market relations within post-socialism. The grassroots campaigns and actions reflect the new social cleavages and increased polarisation as a consequence of neoliberal urbanisation and global integration, as well as the transformation of state power and authority in the region. Studying urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe is instructive for urban movements scholars generally, as it forces us to acknowledge the variety of forms that contention can take and the usefulness of embedding the study of urban movements within a larger understanding of civil society.

Author : Emily Channell-Justice
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793630315

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Decolonizing Queer Experience by Emily Channell-Justice Pdf

In Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by state forces and non-state actors who attempt to reinforce their vision of traditional social values. Decolonizing Queer Experience moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression to explore the resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities who are remaking the post-socialist world; they refuse domination from local heteronormative expectations and from global LGBT+ movements that create and suggest limitations on possible LGBT+ futures. The chapters in this collection feature a multiplicity of LGBT+ voices, suggesting that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in post-socialism is more representative or informative than another. This collection highlights the globally flexible, infinitely malleable notion of LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer activism and communities.

Author : Michal Kope?ek,Piotr Wci?lik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633860854

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Thinking Through Transition by Michal Kope?ek,Piotr Wci?lik Pdf

This book is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-socialism can be understood both as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy?as well as the older political traditions?and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.

Author : Katalin Fábián,Janet Elise Johnson,Mara Lazda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429792298

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia by Katalin Fábián,Janet Elise Johnson,Mara Lazda Pdf

This Handbook is the key reference for contemporary historical and political approaches to gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Leading scholars examine the region’s highly diverse politics, histories, cultures, ethnicities, and religions, and how these structures intersect with gender alongside class, sexuality, coloniality, and racism. Comprising 51 chapters, the Handbook is divided into six thematic parts: Part I Conceptual debates and methodological differences Part II Feminist and women’s movements cooperating and colliding Part III Constructions of gender in different ideologies Part IV Lived experiences of individuals in different regimes Part V The ambiguous postcommunist transitions Part VI Postcommunist policy issues With a focus on defining debates, the collection considers how the shared experiences, especially communism, affect political forces’ organization of gender through a broad variety of topics including feminisms, ideology, violence, independence, regime transition, and public policy. It is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Central-Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.

Author : Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054172

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Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe by Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin Pdf

This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after communism's demise and elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities. Eleven essays by a distinguished group of scholars assess whether post-communist developments in specific areas continue to be shaped by the experience of communism or, alternatively, by fundamental divergences produced before or after communism. Chapters deal with the variable impact of the communist experience on post-communist societies in such areas as regime trajectories and democratic political values; patterns of regional and sectoral economic development; property ownership within the energy sector; the functioning of the executive branch of government, the police, and courts; the relationship of religion to the state; government language policies; and informal relationships and practices.

Author : Pierre Hamel,Henri Lustiger-Thaler,Margit Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134542406

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Urban Movements in a Globalising World by Pierre Hamel,Henri Lustiger-Thaler,Margit Mayer Pdf

This collection deals with the transformation of urban movements in the new social, economic and political environments that the rise of globalisation has brought about.

Author : Ilya Gerasimov,Ilʹi︠a︡ Gerasimov
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469050

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Plebeian Modernity by Ilya Gerasimov,Ilʹi︠a︡ Gerasimov Pdf

Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society

Author : Judith Beyer,Peter Finke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000045369

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Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia by Judith Beyer,Peter Finke Pdf

Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia focuses on how tradition is ‘everyday-ified’ in contemporary Central Asia, including Tatarstan and Tibet, and what people seek to achieve in its name. The case studies range from political demonstrations and industrial workers’ gatherings to institutions of religious education, minority communities, weddings, and the Internet. In this volume we regard tradition as a practice that needs to be explored in its institutional and interactional context at a particular time, rather than as a reliable guide to the past: tradition can only be judged from the present; it is an interpretative concept, not a descriptive one. While the scholarly debate has so far centered on what tradition entails and what it does not, including the question of invention and ownership, less attention has been devoted to investigating how tradition is enacted, enforced, or motivated – in short, how it ‘gets done.’ In Central Asia, practices of traditionalization are closely related to the transformation of the socialist order and the emergence of highly stratified societies. This volume asks: When does tradition emerge as a line of argumentation, who are the actors invoking it and how is it being (materially) manifested? Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia will be of great interest to scholars of Central Asia, Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Sociology. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

Author : Jeroen Gunning,Ilan Zvi Baron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199394982

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Why Occupy a Square? by Jeroen Gunning,Ilan Zvi Baron Pdf

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmaneuver the police? Was this really a 'leaderless revolution, ' as so many pundits claimed, or were the demonstrations an outgrowth of the protest networks that had developed over the past decade? Why did so many people with no history of activism participate? What role did economic and systemic crises play in creating the conditions for these protests to occur? Was this really a Facebook revolution? Why Occupy a Square? is a dynamic exploration of the shape and timing of these extraordinary events, the players behind them, and the tactics and protest frames they developed. Drawing on social movement theory, it traces the interaction between protest cycles, regime responses and broader structural changes over the past decade. Using theories of urban politics, space and power, it reflects on the exceptional state of non-sovereign politics that developed during the occupation of Tahrir Square.

Author : Mahir Ibrahimov,Gustav A. Otto,Lee G. Gentile (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 1940804310

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Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics, & Energy Security of Eurasia by Mahir Ibrahimov,Gustav A. Otto,Lee G. Gentile (Jr.) Pdf