'Fragmented Belonging' on Russia's Western Frontier and Local Government Development in Karelia
"Karelia is a forestry-rich region on Russia's Northwestern frontier. This article shows how institutional arrangements for local government were a product of contending efforts of Western donors and other transnational actors, the federal and regional governments, as well as municipalitie...
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ftdlc:oai:http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu:10535/3883 2023-05-15T17:01:06+02:00 'Fragmented Belonging' on Russia's Western Frontier and Local Government Development in Karelia Lankina, Tomila Former Soviet Union Russia 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/10535/3883 unknown World Resources Institute, DC, USA Representation, Equity and Environment Working Paper, WP # 30 http://hdl.handle.net/10535/3883 state and local governance forestry Social Organization Working Paper 2007 ftdlc 2021-03-11T16:17:08Z "Karelia is a forestry-rich region on Russia's Northwestern frontier. This article shows how institutional arrangements for local government were a product of contending efforts of Western donors and other transnational actors, the federal and regional governments, as well as municipalities. Russia's federal recentralizing reforms and broader authoritarian context notwithstanding, Karelia illustrates how the choice of local institutions, as well as ideas about representation and citizenship are increasingly shaped by actors beyond the central state. Borrowing insights from Joel Migdal and Jesse Ribot, it argues that the result is shifting cognitive boundaries and 'fragmented belonging' or multiple reference points of local citizens in a dynamic process of contestation and re-contestation of citizenship." Report karelia* Indiana University: Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) |
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"Karelia is a forestry-rich region on Russia's Northwestern frontier. This article shows how institutional arrangements for local government were a product of contending efforts of Western donors and other transnational actors, the federal and regional governments, as well as municipalities. Russia's federal recentralizing reforms and broader authoritarian context notwithstanding, Karelia illustrates how the choice of local institutions, as well as ideas about representation and citizenship are increasingly shaped by actors beyond the central state. Borrowing insights from Joel Migdal and Jesse Ribot, it argues that the result is shifting cognitive boundaries and 'fragmented belonging' or multiple reference points of local citizens in a dynamic process of contestation and re-contestation of citizenship." |
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'Fragmented Belonging' on Russia's Western Frontier and Local Government Development in Karelia |
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'Fragmented Belonging' on Russia's Western Frontier and Local Government Development in Karelia |
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