Political Moments with Long-term Consequences*

Becher, Debbie

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“…While future-oriented protentions are part of all interactions, Mische suggests that studying future making is most fruitful in the "sites of hyper-projectivity": "arenas of heightened, future-oriented public debate about contending futures, such as those taking place in communities, social movements, and policy arenas" (Mische 2014:438). The "political moments" (Becher 2012) of urban controversies usually evolve in a variety of arenas where multiple players try to achieve competing goals (Jasper and Duyvendak 2015), often with an intensified sense of urgency (Araos 2021). Future-oriented emotions (such as hope, fear, and anxiety) are important elements of these interactions: they help people make sense of each other's actions and prompt them to take sides in a controversy.…”

Section: Temporal Modes Of Urban Redevelopmentmentioning

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Making Urban Futures at Your Kitchen Table: Temporalities of an Urban Renewal Controversy in Moscow

Желнина

2022

City & Community

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While the nexus of time and space in cities is an established tradition in urban research, the specific temporality of urban planning and redevelopment projects is an emerging theme in the field. Focusing on the intensified interactions in various arenas around a controversial housing renovation program in Moscow, this article examines how and where urban futures are created from a polyphony of individual perspectives, aspirations, and projects. The housing renovation program (“Renovation”) aims to demolish thousands of socialist-era prefabricated apartment buildings and relocate the residents to yet-to-be-built high-rises. The project sparked popular mobilizations both in support of and in resistance to the demolitions. This article examines how Muscovites articulated and probed different future alternatives, matching them to their personal strategies and trajectories in various interactive arenas—from public hearings to homeowner assemblies to evening conversations with their family members. This future-probing became a key process that helped incorporate the temporal landscape of Renovation in people’s lives.

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Section: Temporal Modes Of Urban Redevelopmentmentioning

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Making Urban Futures at Your Kitchen Table: Temporalities of an Urban Renewal Controversy in Moscow

Желнина

2022

City & Community

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“…Thus, a proper Polanyian analysis would not simply find evidence of social protection and declare the emergence of a Third Great Transformation, as numerous scholars tend to do (for ex. Becher, 2012;Caporaso & Tarrow, 2009;Gill & Cutler, 2014), but would rather evaluate the quality of those measures on their own terms. The mere existence of the habitation principle does not in any way signify the emergence of a double movement.…”

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The fictitious commodification of money and the Euro experiment

Savevska¹

2019

CPE

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This paper examines money, the least theorized of Polanyi's fictitious commodities, whose value to human's livelihood warrants extensive regulatory oversight in the price-setting mechanism. In doing so, it contributes to the scholarship that explores the variegated nature of countermovements which can be engendered by unforseen agents deploying various means, often market-based. In light of extensive central bank intervention in the economy, Polanyi's claim about the fictitious character of money deserves credence. This paper argues that the non-conventional policy instrument of quantitative easing in the Eurozone serves the function of protecting society from the commodity fiction of money. The ECB's lender of last resort function is a quintessential counter-measure akin to those extended to labour and land. Yet, despite its protective disposition, the ECB's involvement in managing the currency does not engender a double movement, it rather faces political limits in engendering indiscriminate macro-economic stabilization across an increasingly polarized monetary union.

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A Hacking Atlas: Holistic Hacking in the Urban Theater

Schuler

2018

The Hackable City

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This essay is intended to help further the understanding of contemporary social change and social activism, which in turn should assist people developing civic intelligence within both local and global communities. Civic intelligence is a social phenomenon that describes how well collectivities address their shared problems efficiently and equitably. It describes examples at a variety of scales from a neighborhood trying to stop a new trash incinerator from being built next to its school to the global climate change agreement negotiated in Paris in 2015. To accomplish this effort, the concepts of hacking and holistic hacking, and hacking spaces (and seven types of hacking spaces) are introduced and then employed in relation to an actual activist mobilization called Shell No, that was waged in Seattle by environmental activists over a 30-day period in Spring 2015.

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Political Moments with Long-term Consequences*

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Making Urban Futures at Your Kitchen Table: Temporalities of an Urban Renewal Controversy in Moscow

Making Urban Futures at Your Kitchen Table: Temporalities of an Urban Renewal Controversy in Moscow

The fictitious commodification of money and the Euro experiment

A Hacking Atlas: Holistic Hacking in the Urban Theater

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