The Layers of Dependence and the Changing Role of the State – Conceptualising Urban Change in the East of Europe
Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The conceptualisation of the „urban” in Eastern Europe is inevitably related to being European – being involved in the flows of ideas, technologies and institutional practices shaping urban space – as well as to experiencing and researching urban change in the East, that has always been the nearest “other” to the western “core” of Europe. Inspired by the non-essentialist interpretations of the transition of urban space in the East of Europe, by Lefebvre’s theory of the “production of space”, as well as by experiencing urban change and East - West relations in everyday practice, we argue for a dependence - and state-centred conceptualisation of urban change in the East of Europe. Our key argument is that while “eastern” cities are heavily dependent on the global circulation of capital and its space-producing logic, this dependence has many interrelated layers that should be discovered and conceptualised at various non-global scales, particularly, in the context of “project Europe” (EEA) and of the changing role of the (nation-)state.
Authors: Erika Nagy, Gábor Nagy
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2269057778