Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

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. "

• | Author: Oleg Kharkhordin, Risto Alapuro
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138995010
• | ISBN-13: 9781138995017