Thomas Borén

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Meeting Places of Transformation: Urban Identity, Spatial Representations, and Local Politics in St. Petersburg, RussiaPaperback, 1 April 2009

Meeting Places of Transformation: Urban Identity, Spatial Representations, and Local Politics in St. Petersburg, Russia
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Part of Series
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Print Length
296 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Ibidem Press
Date Published
1 Apr 2009
ISBN-10
3898217396
ISBN-13
9783898217392

Description

What happened to the urban spaces of everyday life when the Soviet Union collapsed? And how may this change be understood? Based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in post-Soviet Russia, this study draws upon time-geographic, social and semiotic theory to formulate a model of how urban space is formed. Mirrored through the case of Ligovo/Uritsk, a high-rise residential district situated on the outskirts of Sankt-Peterburg (St Petersburg), the changing relation between the lifeworlds of people and the system of governance is highlighted with regard to the transformation of Soviet and Russian society over the last decades. The empirical material presented here documents a number of processes within urban identity formation, spatial representations and local politics. The resulting findings add both empirically and theoretically to the knowledge of urban cultural geography in Russia--a field of research that until recently was closed to Western researchers, and seems currently to be closing again.The book will be of interest to researchers with an interest in social, semiotic and geographic theory as well as to students and researchers of cultural and urban studies, urban life and Russian affairs. The study could be also helpful to professionals working in fields related to post-Soviet urban identity, spatial representations and local politics.

Product Details

Author:
Thomas Borén
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 April 2009
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.57 cm
ISBN-10:
3898217396
ISBN-13:
9783898217392
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
296
Publisher:
Weight:
353.8 gm

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