Urban Protest
A Spatial Perspective on Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow
Published on 21. September 2021
292 pages
978-3-8382-7495-9 (ISBN)
Description
Urban space is an important part of the political environment-a place where people congregate to discuss, deliberate, and interact with each other. In times of great public discontent, people often turn to urban spaces to make their opinions heard and to demand change, with varying degrees of success. How are mass protests affected by the urban public space in which they occur?
This book provides a theoretical model to analyze city spaces, based on the use of theories from political science, urban planning, and sociology. Hansen's approach consists of a mapping of the causal mechanisms between spatial elements, the political environment, and their combined effects on protests. This mapping is applied to three case studies-Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow.
In addition to the spatial perspective model, Urban Protest provides new insights as to how the interactions in space occur, and demonstrates how geography can create limitations and opportunities in a large variety of ways.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
File size
4,79 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-7495-9 (9783838274959)
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09/2021
ibidem
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Persons
Dr. Arve Hansen studied Russian, Ukrainian, and East European area studies in Minsk, Kyiv, and Tromsø. Since 2016 he is a member of the research group "Russian Space: Concepts, Practices, Representations" (RSCPR) at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. Hansen is co-author of the book A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations (ibidem Press, 2019). His papers have been published by, among others, Nordisk Østforum, Nordlit, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Content
- Intro
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Language
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Starting Point
- Part I
- 2 Space in Context
- 2.1 Complexities of Urban Contention
- 2.1.1 Form
- 2.1.2 Motivation
- 2.1.3 Waves
- 2.2 Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
- 2.3 Relevance
- 3 Mapping the Field
- 3.1 Protests
- 3.1.1 Repertoires
- 3.1.2 Nonviolent Contention
- 3.1.3 Colour Revolutions
- 3.1.4 Non-spatial Factors
- 3.2 Space
- 3.2.1 Public Space
- 3.2.2 Physical Space
- 3.2.3 Contested Spaces
- 3.3 The Gap
- 4 Definitions and Research Questions
- 4.1 What Is a Mass Protest?
- 4.2 What Is Urban Public Space?
- 4.3 Research Questions
- 5 Theorising and Development
- 5.1 Approaches to Theorising
- 5.1.1 Field Work
- 5.1.2 Respondents
- 5.1.3 Mapping
- 5.2 Ethical Considerations
- 5.2.1 Interview Ethics
- 5.2.2 Practical Utility
- 5.3 Geographical Determinism
- 5.4 Conception
- 5.4.1 M.A. Thesis
- 5.4.2 PhD Proposal
- 5.5 Theorising
- 5.5.1 Prestudy
- 5.5.2 Formulating a Theory
- 5.5.3 Transitional Study
- 5.6 Causal Chains
- 5.7 Main Study
- 5.8 Post-test Theorising
- 6 Variables and Methodology
- 6.1 Independent Variables
- 6.1.1 Perceived Elements
- 6.1.2 Physical Elements
- 6.1.3 Social Elements
- 6.2 Intermediary Variables
- 6.2.1 Spatial Qualities
- 6.2.2 The Political Environment
- 6.3 Dependent Variables
- 6.3.1 Emergence
- 6.3.2 Realisation
- 6.3.3 Impact
- Part II
- 7 Prestudy
- 7.1 Physical Space
- 7.1.1 Spatial and Urban History
- 7.1.2 Daily Use
- 7.1.3 Protest Space
- 7.2 Symbolic Value
- 7.2.1 25 Years of Protest
- 7.3 Function
- 7.4 Conclusions
- 8 Transitional Study
- 8.1 A Spatial Perspective
- 8.2 Belarusian Protests from Glasnost' to Lukashenka
- 8.3 Perceived elements
- 8.3.1 October Square
- 8.3.2 Independence Square
- 8.4 Social Elements
- 8.4.1 The Political Centre
- 8.4.2 The People's Centre
- 8.4.3 Independence Square
- 8.4.4 October Square
- 8.5 Physical Elements
- 8.5.1 October Square and Ploshcha 2006
- 8.5.2 Independence Square and Ploshcha 2010
- 8.6 Conclusions
- 9 Main Study
- 9.1 Towards a Spatial Perspective
- 9.1.1 Spatial Elements
- 9.1.2 Spatial Qualities and the Political Environment
- 9.1.3 Protest Areas
- 9.2 Moscow, Swamp Square and the March of Millions
- 9.2.1 The Political Environment of Moscow
- 9.2.2 Public Spaces in Moscow
- 9.2.3 The Elements
- 9.2.4 Spatial Qualities
- 9.2.5 Emergence, Realization, Impact
- 9.3 Conclusions
- Part III
- 10 To Paris and Beyond
- 10.1 Republic Square and the Yellow Vests
- 10.1.1 Applying the Model
- 10.2 Summary and Conclusions
- 10.2.1 "So what?"
- 10.2.2 Limitations
- 10.3 Moving On
- References
- Index
