Urban Regimes in Russia’s Northern Cities: Testing a Concept in a New Environment
At a time when urbanization represents a major trend in human history and when the majority of the world’spopulation lives in an urban environment, the urban regime theory, developed by Clarence Stone in the 1980s, offers an insightful framework for discussing how urban stakeholders are compelled to...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/69933 2023-05-15T14:19:02+02:00 Urban Regimes in Russia’s Northern Cities: Testing a Concept in a New Environment Laruelle, Marlene 2020-03-18 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/69933 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/69933/53931 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/69933 Copyright (c) 2020 ARCTIC ARCTIC; Vol. 73 No. 1 (2020): March: 1-140; 53-66 1923-1245 0004-0843 Russia Arctic governance urban regimes governmentality Murmansk Norilsk Yakutsk Russie gouvernance de l’Arctique régimes urbains gouvernementalité info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2020 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-07-03T17:29:58Z At a time when urbanization represents a major trend in human history and when the majority of the world’spopulation lives in an urban environment, the urban regime theory, developed by Clarence Stone in the 1980s, offers an insightful framework for discussing how urban stakeholders are compelled to work together to achieve their goals. While research on urban regimes has historically focused mainly on democratic contexts, this article argues that it is time to use urban regime theory in authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries in order to better understand how urban politics develop. With growing urban activism and huge territorial contrasts, Russia offers a good case study for testing the notion of “urban regime.” This article focuses on three cities in Russia’s Far North—Murmansk, Norilsk, and Yakutsk—that face common sustainability challenges in Arctic or subarctic conditions; it delves into the mechanisms of their urban regimes and categorizesthem by type: instrumental, organic, and symbolic. À une époque où l’urbanisation représente une tendance majeure de l’histoire humaine et où la majorité de la population mondiale vit en milieu urbain, la théorie du régime urbain élaborée par Clarence Stone dans les années 1980 présente un cadre de discussion intéressant sur la façon dont les intervenants urbains sont incités à travailler ensemble pour atteindre leurs objectifs. Depuis longtemps, bien que la recherche sur les régimes urbains se concentre principalement sur les contextes démocratiques, le présent article soutient que le moment est venu d’utiliser la théorie du régime urbain dans les pays autoritaires ou semi-autoritaires afin de mieux comprendre comment se développe la politique urbaine. En raison de l’activisme urbain croissant et des énormes contrastes territoriaux, la Russie constitue une bonne étude de cas pour mettre à l’épreuve la notion de« régime urbain ». Cet article porte sur trois villes du grand nord de la Russie, Murmansk, Norilsk et Yakutsk, aux prises avec des défis communs en ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic norilsk Subarctic Yakutsk University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Murmansk Norilsk ENVELOPE(88.203,88.203,69.354,69.354) Yakutsk ARCTIC 73 1 53 66 |
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At a time when urbanization represents a major trend in human history and when the majority of the world’spopulation lives in an urban environment, the urban regime theory, developed by Clarence Stone in the 1980s, offers an insightful framework for discussing how urban stakeholders are compelled to work together to achieve their goals. While research on urban regimes has historically focused mainly on democratic contexts, this article argues that it is time to use urban regime theory in authoritarian or semi-authoritarian countries in order to better understand how urban politics develop. With growing urban activism and huge territorial contrasts, Russia offers a good case study for testing the notion of “urban regime.” This article focuses on three cities in Russia’s Far North—Murmansk, Norilsk, and Yakutsk—that face common sustainability challenges in Arctic or subarctic conditions; it delves into the mechanisms of their urban regimes and categorizesthem by type: instrumental, organic, and symbolic. À une époque où l’urbanisation représente une tendance majeure de l’histoire humaine et où la majorité de la population mondiale vit en milieu urbain, la théorie du régime urbain élaborée par Clarence Stone dans les années 1980 présente un cadre de discussion intéressant sur la façon dont les intervenants urbains sont incités à travailler ensemble pour atteindre leurs objectifs. Depuis longtemps, bien que la recherche sur les régimes urbains se concentre principalement sur les contextes démocratiques, le présent article soutient que le moment est venu d’utiliser la théorie du régime urbain dans les pays autoritaires ou semi-autoritaires afin de mieux comprendre comment se développe la politique urbaine. En raison de l’activisme urbain croissant et des énormes contrastes territoriaux, la Russie constitue une bonne étude de cas pour mettre à l’épreuve la notion de« régime urbain ». Cet article porte sur trois villes du grand nord de la Russie, Murmansk, Norilsk et Yakutsk, aux prises avec des défis communs en ... |
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