The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia : Engaging in Everyday Struggle / Alexandrina Vanke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanke, Alexandrina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Russia (Federation).

City and town life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia's post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban space under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Synthesising a theory of urban life and everyday struggle

Local atmospheres and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods

A gendered sense of place: intersectional inequalities in urban space

Moral value and signifiers of class

The social imaginary of Russian society: lay perceptions of inequality

Open protests: formation of political consciousness

The everyday forms of resistance: formation of practical consciousness

Epilogue

Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-8510-5

1-5261-6764-6

1-5261-6762-X

OCLC:

1419870748