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Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia

Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia

Kharkhordin, Oleg
Alapuro, Risto

Hardcover

Series: Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial MovementsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0415596017
ISBN13: 9780415596015
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 2 2010
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russia's second biggest steel producer, Severstal. Using political philosophy to analyse the down-to-earth details of the real techno-scientific problems facing the world, the book examines the role of things - and urban infrastructure in particular - in political change. It considers how the city's infrastructure, including housing, ICT networks, the provision of public utilities of all kinds, has been transformed in recent years; examines the roles of different actors including the municipal authorities, and explores citizens' differing and sometimes contradictory images of their city. It includes a great deal of new thinking on how communities are built, how common action is initiated to provide public goods, and how the goods themselves - physical things - are a crucial driver of community action and community building, arguably more so than more abstract social and human forces.

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