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This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russiaâs second biggest steel producer, Severstal. Using political philosophy to analyse the down-to-earth details of the real techno-scientific problems facing the world, the book examines the role of things - and urban infrastructure in particular - in political change. It considers how the cityâs infrastructure, including housing, ICT networks, the provision of public utilities of all kinds, has been transformed in recent years; examines the roles of different actors including the municipal authorities, and explores citizensâ differing and sometimes contradictory images of their city. It includes a great deal of new thinking on how communities are built, how common action is initiated to provide public goods, and how the goods themselves - physical things â are a crucial driver of community action and community building, arguably more so than more abstract social and human forces.
Hardcover:
9780415596015 | Routledge, January 21, 2011, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russiaâs second biggest steel producer, Severstal.
Paperback:
9781138995017 | Routledge, February 29, 2016, cover price $47.95
Hardcover:
9780199518005 | Universitetsforlaget, October 1, 1986, cover price $62.00 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
Hardcover:
9780520058132 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $85.00
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