From Systemic Underdevelopment to Basic Urban Maintenance: National Priority Projects in the Russian Periphery
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From Systemic Underdevelopment to Basic Urban Maintenance: National Priority Projects in the Russian Periphery
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Smirnova, V.
Adrianova, E. |
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UNDERDEVELOPMENT
URBAN RENEWAL URBAN CONFLICT CENTER-PERIPHERY RELATIONS RUSSIA |
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Received 1 September 2021. Accepted 20 May 2022. Published online 11 July 2022.
We would like to thank Konstantin Kiyanenko, Andrey Golovin, and Yana Golubeva for their insightful comments on the early version of this paper. We are also grateful for being a part of the social movement for the preservation of the Vologda River Embankment, the Vologda State University Faculty of Architecture from which we are alumni, and the community of Vologda activists and friends that continue the struggle for the protection of the old provincial architecture in the city. Acknowledgements are also due to the thematic issue editor Elena Trubina and others for their time and work putting this collection together. The case of urban development in the Russian periphery is often overlooked in the scholarly efforts to theorize the center-periphery dynamics characteristic of the post-socialist contexts, not least in the case of Russia. Consequently, the analysis of urban development initiatives in the regions and provinces defies the logic of large-scale urban projects with characteristic subdominant relations between the state and the private sector, since the latter and the former are tied in competition for limited federal resources. We delve into the particularities of the center-periphery dynamics through the case of the Vologda River embankment renovation project, paying particular attention to the decision-making processes, lack of transparency, and bureaucratic hustle in response to the civil protest—all characteristic of a distinctive, though common across Russia’s peripheral towns, dilemma of systemic underdevelopment vs basic urban maintenance. We rely on discourse analysis of legal and regulatory documents, project plans, meetings proceedings and official correspondence between departmental agencies, and media posts created by the local protest groups during the period of 2018–2019. Through this analysis, we showcase not only the asymmetries of power relations in the postsocialist periphery, but also bureaucratic constraints and uncertainties that often amount to a standstill situation with uncertain prospects for future improvement. |
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2022-08-11T14:08:08Z
2022-08-11T14:08:08Z 2022 |
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Article
Journal article (info:eu-repo/semantics/article) Published version (info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion) |
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Smirnova V. From Systemic Underdevelopment to Basic Urban Maintenance: National Priority Projects in the Russian Periphery / V. Smirnova, E. Adrianova // Changing Societies & Personalities. — 2022. — Vol. 6. Iss. 2: Urban Waterfronts: Diversifying Perspectives. — P. 433–454.
2587-8964 2587-6104 http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/116427 https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=49292700 10.15826/csp.2022.6.2.183 |
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en
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Changing Societies & Personalities. 2022. Vol. 6. Iss. 2
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Уральский федеральный университет
Ural Federal University |
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