Introduction:Peripheralization as the Social Production of Spatial Dependencies and Injustice

Foreword

“…While the macro-focus highlighted the rise of CEE as a semiperiphery (between the 'West' and the 'East'/ Russia) and the variety of institutional arrangements across long durées (see e .g . Berend, 2005;Kochanowitz, 1989;Bohle and Greskovits, 2007), recent critical readings of peripheralisation and peripherality drove the attention toward regional and local processes within the periphery in the context of CEE modern history (Boatca, 2006;Zarycki, 2011;Düzgün, 2013;Fischer-Tahir and Naumann, 2013) . They linked grand historical time to 'internal time of spatial systems' (Braudel, 1992;Massey, 2008) and opened up the way to understand peripheralisation from the periphery .…”

“…1 A fairly broad understanding of peripheralisation was adopted, as a manifestation of the space-producing logic of capitalism that occurs constantly through flows, multiple institutional arrangements and practices as well as discourses at various interrelated scales, yet in very different contexts (as it is discussed by Wallerstein, 2004;Domanski and Lung, 2009;Fischer-Tahir and Naumann, 2013;Kühn and Berndt, 2013;Lang, 2015) . Peripherality refers to the way dependence and powerlessness are perceived, interpreted, signified and (re)acted upon (shaped by place-based values and norms) -the way being on (part of) the periphery is 'lived' (Lefebvre, 1991;Meyer and Miggelbrink, 2013) .…”

The Discursive Construction of Innovation Policy in Peripheralising Estonia

“…A few attempts have been made at involving the local and regional level in creating strategies for the regional level . The Tartu Regional Innovation Strategy aimed at increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in Tartu and Southern Estonia or the Development Strategy of Ida-Virumaa 2005-2013, which partly targeted research and innovation . Yet these attempts remained scarce and without much impact to inspire similar actions (Inzelt, 2006) .…”

Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: Testing the effect of housing market

“…The residential patterns of ethnic minority populations (mainly immigrants from other countries) may be influenced not only by housing prices but also by the housing market discrimination that impose additional restrictions on the residential choice (Bolt & Van Kempen, 2010). As long as the inflow of migrants to postsocialist capitals is largely fostered by economic stimulus such as unemployment or low wages in the areas of out-migration (Fischer-Tahir & Naumann, 2013;Hess et al, 2012), it is natural to assume that migrants may prefer less prestigious, relatively cheap neighborhoods and districts, at least at the moment of the first residential choice. In line with this argument, the inflow of migrants would then contribute to the social-spatial polarization of the city structure, since areas of migrant concentration would increasingly become low income enclaves.…”

“…Neoliberal shift in economy increased inequalities in development, which have a pronounced spatial pattern. In other words, spatial development of the post-socialist countries is becoming increasingly polarized (Ehrlich, Kriszan, & Lang, 2012;Fischer-Tahir & Naumann, 2013). A characteristic feature of the polarized development is the intensification of migration flows from economically weak to economically prosperous areas (Weck & Beißwenger, 2014).…”