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Engaging neighbors: housing strategies and political mobilization in moscow's renovation.
Anna Zhelnina , The Graduate Center, City University of New York Follow
Date of Degree
Document type.
Dissertation
Degree Name
James M. Jasper
Committee Members
Sharon Zukin
Philip Kasinitz
Jan Willem Duyvendak
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Civic and Community Engagement | Politics and Social Change | Urban Studies and Planning
housing strategies, strategic interaction, urban politics, urban renewal, Moscow
In summer 2017, residents of thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings in Moscow were invited to vote and decide whether their building should be included in the demolition and relocation program proposed by the Mayor’s Office. Renovation is an ongoing urban renewal plan, first announced in Moscow in February 2017, to demolish whole neighborhoods of socialist-era, five-story buildings and replace them with high-rises. The vast project affected more than 5,000 buildings with approximately a million inhabitants.
This dissertation addresses general questions of political agency and the possibility for diverse people in urban neighborhoods to produce change: to achieve desired policy outcomes, transform the rules of political interactions and the configuration of players in the urban political field. Inevitably, the interests, aspirations, and strategies of these people differ. In this thesis, I explore how these different aspirations and different life experiences clash, overlap, and develop into collective strategies, which can transform the relationships of the urban political field. To connect the experiences of Moscow residents facing urban renewal with the longstanding sociological debates, I synthesize theories of agency and strategy, theories of strategic interaction in social movement research, and urban scholarship on citizenship.
Housing is a fundamental human goal, and ways of achieving and keeping a proper home shape a person’s housing strategy . Renovation soon turned into a housing struggle. The reason it sparked a high degree of mobilization in a relatively politically apathetic society is the thing it targeted: housing is literally the issue closest to home, able to provoke even politically indifferent people to act. I seek to demonstrate that political action partly grows out of individual strategies, motivations, aspirations, and feelings. These personal strategies, too, result in turn from earlier social and cultural processes.
Renovation pulled Muscovites into the urban political field , a configuration of interactive arenas where decisions about the city in general and its specific parts can be negotiated. Setting foot in one arena could also motivate citizens to further explore the outlines of the field, and engage in interactions in further linked arenas, such as municipal elections. Previously, not many Muscovites had used or even known about the different arenas of urban and local politics, but the shock of potentially losing their home in Renovation exposed those structures to more citizens than ever before. People learned and tried out individual arenas, learned about the connections between different political arenas, and created new arenas, for example, homeowners’ assemblies or meetings of the new activist communities.
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Zhelnina, Anna, "Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow's Renovation" (2020). CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4015
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All Graduate Center degree and certificate programs are approved by the New York State Education Department (NYSED). The Graduate Center credit hour policy for degree and certificate pro- grams is consistent with NYSED guidelines and with the U.S. Department of Education’s definition of a credit hour. The Graduate Center's policy is that, for each credit hour assigned to a course, a minimum of 3 hours of combined in-class and out-of-class work are required per week for 15 weeks. The relative proportions of in-class and out-of-class time are determined at the program level. As all Graduate Center courses are graduate courses, out-of-class work of- ten constitutes a higher proportion of the total 3 hours as compared to typical undergraduate courses. For individual programs’ implementations of the policy, please see their sections in this bulletin.
The first table below shows the in-class and out-of-class work requirements associated with traditional Graduate Center courses carrying different credit assignments. The second table shows the work requirements associated with one-to-one courses.
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Credit hours | Hours in class each week | Weeks per semester | Hours in class per semester | Hours reading, researching, and/or writing out of class each week |
1 | 2 | 15 | 30 | 1
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2 | 2 | 15 | 30 | 4 |
3 | 2 | 15 | 30 | 7 |
4 | 2 | 15 | 30 | 10 |
5 | 2 | 15 | 30 | 13 |
1 | 3 | 15 | 45 | 0-1
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2 | 3 | 15 | 45 | 3 |
3 | 3 | 15 | 45 | 6 |
4 | 3 | 15 | 45 | 9 |
5 | 3 | 15 | 45 | 12 |
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Type of course | Hours of work per week | Weeks per semester | Student learning outcome, product, and interaction with faculty |
Dissertation | At least 3 per credit | 15 | Development of a substantial, original work, e.g., a research study, which meets the standards of the field or profession. On their own, students engage in research, writing, creative, or other activity as required by the field or profession and meet with a faculty advisor at regular intervals to receive feedback. |
Independent Study | At least 3 per credit | 15 | The development of a project or product, (e.g., a pilot study, a review of literature), allowing students to acquire more in-depth knowledge of topics covered in classes or knowledge of topics not covered in classes. |
Fieldwork, Practica, Internship | At least 3 per credit | 15 | Documented accumulation of a large amount of supervised, high-quality practical experience in a professional setting. The amount and quality of the experience are determined by the standards of the field and/or accrediting organizations. The goal is for the student to have the experience, analyze it, and learn from it with the assistance of a faculty member with whom the student meets at regular intervals. |
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As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community ...
As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community ...
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