Resistance to what? Urban contention in authoritarian Russia

Autor: Andrei Semenov
Jazyk: němčina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Sub\urban, Vol 11, Iss 3/4 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2197-2567
DOI: 10.36900/suburban.v11i3/4.913
Popis: The unfolding debate on authoritarian urbanism and resistance to it largely avoided the conceptual clarification of what exactly this phenomenon is about. In this comment, I argue that authoritarian urbanism should be conceptualised as practices and tools for governing the urban space that help to maintain the autocratic order. I draw on the evidence from Russia to check if urban contention there fits into the category of „resistance to authoritarian urbanism“ and posit that it occupies the middle-ground between an open call for fundamental change in urban governance and infrapolitics.
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