Dispersed Dispossession : Collective Goods, Appropriation, and Agency in Rural Russia / Alexander Vorbrugg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vorbrugg, Alexander, Author.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Russia.

Rural development.

Russia--Rural conditions.

Russia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book provides a nuanced analysis of rural change in Russia during the 2010s, a crucial and formative phase marked by the consolidation of giant agricultural companies, large land deals, soaring exports, and spectacular failures of investment projects. It contextualizes complex and often ambivalent empirical realities within historical and political-economic frameworks. Through extensive fieldwork, Alexander Vorbrugg gives rare insights into the operations of large agricultural companies and reveals how the deterioration of material infrastructures, social arrangements, government and local supports, and collective goods erode the conditions of rural inhabitants' well-being and agency. Vorbrugg introduces "dispersed dispossession," a concept that helps to relate gradual degradation to appropriation and agency. The concept captures losses that have been accumulated across Soviet, reform, and state-capitalist phases and stick to places, persons and potentialities. These losses are perpetuated and exploited by businesses and politicians and have profound implications for the conditions for resistance, shaping the range of conceivable alternatives. They are part of a history that is not fully past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Traces

Kolkhoz

Ruins

Potential

Tactics

Reconnection.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820363912

OCLC:

1514941366

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access