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- Bassin, Mark
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National Metanarratives after Communism
- 2012
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 53:5, s. 553-556
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Dawidson, Karin E. K.
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Redistributing nationalized housing: Impacts on property patterns in Timişoara, Romania
- 2004
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 45:2, s. 134-156
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A Swedish geographer maps different types of re-privatization and their effects on ethnic and socio-economic property patterns in Timişoara, a relatively large urban center (ca. 334,000 inhabitants) in western Romania in which pre-socialist ownership was predominantly multi-ethnic. The study is based on an extensive survey conducted in 2003 covering 524 blocks of apartments that were nationalized during the socialist period, with one apartment in each block being studied in detail. The article focuses special attention on the practice of the restitution of nationalized housing to former owners, in an analysis based on interviews with the local and regional officials in Timişoara.
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- Dawidson, Karin E. K.
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Redistribution of land in post-communist Romania
- 2005
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 46:8, s. 618-632
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A geographer discusses changes in the ownership of state and collectivized rural land in post-communist Romania. In an analysis based on historical and recent ownership data as well as on the author's interviews with 205 landholders from East and West Romania, local officials, as well as politicians, the study examines how the country's rural land has been redistributed after 1989. The combination of restitution and distribution is singled out as the unique feature of the Romanian land reform that sets it apart from the less equitable procedures adopted by other post-communist countries. Similarly different, as noted in the paper, is the high share of Romania's agricultural sector in the country's labor force.
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- Gentile, Michael
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Delayed underurbanization and the closed-city effect : The case of Ust'-Kamenogorsk
- 2003
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 44:2, s. 144-156
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A field study conducted by the author based on a 2001 survey (N = 3,136) compares data on population change at the individual settlement level from the 1999 census of Kazakhstan with unpublished data from the 1989 census. The author documents the unique phenomenon of "delayed underurbanization" in the formerly closed East Kazakh city of Ust'-Kamenogorsk (ca. 300,000 inhabitants in 2002), arguing that the limited financial resources of rural migrants to that city (recently accessible to residents of its rural hinterland) have created spatial patterns of residence and commuting similar to those under the Soviet underurbanization model for open cities. The study, covering an area dominated by military-industrial and/or mining-metallurgical economies, is relevant to research focused on other formerly closed cities throughout the Soviet Union.
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- O'Hara, Sarah, et al.
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Household Incomes in Central Asia : The Case of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
- 2009
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 50:3, s. 327-347
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Two European geographers present the findings of a sizeable survey (n = 7,5 15) providing a detailed geographical analysis of household incomes and reliance on personal subsidiary garden plots across Kazakhstan. The authors focus on assessing the extent to which Kazakhstan's rising GDP during the post-Soviet period has coincided with an increase in the general population's personal income and ability to secure adequate food supplies for personal consumption. The fine geographical scale of analysis of the survey data (significantly less coarse than oblast-level data) enabled them to identify regions characterized by "trickle-down" income, largely centered on the country's two main urban centers and areas of resource exploitation. The patterns revealed in the paper have relevance to the debate concerning the uneven distribution of benefits from resource exploitation (notably oil and gas) to Kazakhstan's population.
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- O'Hara, Sarah, et al.
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The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on Remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States
- 2009
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 50:4, s. 447-463
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Two European geographers and an economist analyze the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic recession on remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Drawing on balance-of-payments data as well as information on money transfers to and from the region, they detail the annual growth of remittances since 2001, illustrating the growing importance of this income stream to a number of countries in the region. Using quarterly data, they then provide details of the impact of the financial crisis on remittances starting with the 2007 credit crunch and intensifying with the collapse of global markets in 2008. Based on the impact of the 1998 Russian Crisis, they suggest that by 2012, remittances to the region could fall to only one-third the 2008 level, and that a return to pre-crisis levels of remittances could take almost a decade.
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- Suslov, Mikhail
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Geographical Metanarratives in Russia and the European East : Contemporary Pan-Slavism
- 2012
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 53:5, s. 575-595
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A specialist on Russian geopolitical metanarratives investigates the re-emergence of Pan-Slavism in the ideological landscape of contemporary Russia. Arguing that it is a heterogeneous assemblage of both mutually antagonistic and complementary narratives about the unity of Slavic peoples, the author posits that Pan-Slavism's durability lies not in its conceptual coherence but rather its emotional appeal to disparate Slavic peoples in the former Soviet Union as well as Eastern and Southeastern Europe. After briefly tracing the history of Pan-Slavism from its 17th-century roots through World War I into the Soviet period, he explores the metanarrative's capacity to take modern Russia's geopolitical thinking in new directions, including the potential to replace Russians' center-periphery worldview with a that of a cosmopolitan network of kindred nations affording Russia greater access to the European community. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: F020, F590, Z000. 152 references.
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- Alami, Ilias
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Respatialising finance : power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London, by Sarah Hall, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, John Wiley & Sons, 2021, 192 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-119-38604-9; £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-119-38548-6; eBook from £22.99, ISBN 978-1-119-38554-7
- 2023
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863.
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this short commentary, I propose to read the book as a student of “state capitalism” and “international financial subordination”. The former refers to a set of scholarly debates concerning the changing role of the state in contemporary capitalism. It asks: what are the (geo)political economic determinants and implications of the current aggregate expansion of the state’s role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital across the world economy? The latter designates a research agenda dedicated to scrutinizing the sources, manifestations, and implications of developing countries’ per- sistent subordinate positionality in the geographical organization of financial and monetary relations on a planetary scale (Alami et al. 2022). Respatialising Finance is remarkable in its ability to develop a sustained and generative conversation between these two interdisciplinary fields of inquiry.
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- Borén, Thomas, 1967-, et al.
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Conceptual export and theory mobilities : exploring the reception and development of the “creative city thesis” in the post-socialist urban realm
- 2016
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In: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 57:4-5, s. 588-606
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper addresses the limited contribution of scholarship from within/on the post-socialist urban arena to global urban studies, a phenomenon attributed to the influence of a hegemonic Anglo-American academic complex. We seek to present a more nuanced account by considering scholarship on the “creative city” in a post-socialist context. A numerical analysis of English language publications confirms the lack of impact of scholarship from/on post-socialist areas, though we do identify literature which may be “theory exporting” and emphasize the temporal dimension of the development of scholarship. We then consider the interaction of three global mobilities to present a more nuanced account of this pattern – the “creative city” thesis as globally mobile urban policy, the neoliberalization of universities as a globally mobile restructuring of the context in which these inequalities in knowledge-production are produced, and urban studies theorizing itself as a set of globally mobile concepts and practices. We therefore explore the dynamic interaction of a particular urban phenomenon (“creative city” policy) with academic knowledge production. Adopting this perspective allows us to emphasize other factors such as path dependencies within post-socialist areas and to give due emphasis to agency within the region and how these interact with global processes of neoliberalizing academia.
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