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Private Life, Public Action
How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow
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About this book
Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritarian government, residents supported or opposed the redevelopment by mobilizing and organizing into local alliances. They were often shocked by their neighbors who were excited about the new housing or those suspicious of being displaced.
Private Life, Public Action traces how residents impacted by the relocation plan became activists despite having little to no experience organizing or even forming political affiliations and opinions. Author Anna Zhelnina details the ways in which neighbors engaged in collective action, as well as the individual and structural changes these interactions caused.
Zhelnina develops the concept of "housing strategies" to explain how residents' debates with their neighbors about housing were shaped by their private life strategies. She applies her findings about housing in Moscow to ongoing questions about political mobilization, demonstrating how public engagement is shaped by historical and social contexts.
Examining the intersection of housing, politics, and citizenship in contemporary Russia, Private Life, Public Action offers a new way to look at urban change.
In the series Politics, History, and Social Change
Private Life, Public Action traces how residents impacted by the relocation plan became activists despite having little to no experience organizing or even forming political affiliations and opinions. Author Anna Zhelnina details the ways in which neighbors engaged in collective action, as well as the individual and structural changes these interactions caused.
Zhelnina develops the concept of "housing strategies" to explain how residents' debates with their neighbors about housing were shaped by their private life strategies. She applies her findings about housing in Moscow to ongoing questions about political mobilization, demonstrating how public engagement is shaped by historical and social contexts.
Examining the intersection of housing, politics, and citizenship in contemporary Russia, Private Life, Public Action offers a new way to look at urban change.
In the series Politics, History, and Social Change
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Publisher
Temple University PressYear
2025Print ISBN
9781439926147, 9781439926130eBook ISBN
9781439926154Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Private Homes, Public Struggles
- 1. Living in a Changing Moscow
- 2. Renovation: Policies Shaping the Urban Political Field
- 3. The Emergence of Players: Housing Strategies and Interactive Decision-Making
- 4. Moscow in Movement: Creating and Hijacking Public Arenas
- 5. Five-Story Amphitheaters: The Politicization of Courtyards and Homes
- 6. Make or Break: Gains and Losses of Mobilization
- 7. Zooming Out: Urban Politics in (Re)Centralizing Russia
- Notes
- References
- Index