(DOWNLOAD) "Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia" by Oleg Kharkhordin & Risto Alapuro * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia
- Author : Oleg Kharkhordin & Risto Alapuro
- Release Date : January 07, 2011
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Science & Nature,Earth Sciences,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1411 KB
Description
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.