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. CESS
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- Formats:
- Panel
- Theme:
- Sociology & Social Issues
- Location:
- Room 110
- Sessions:
- Saturday 25 June, -
Time zone: Asia/Tashkent
Long Abstract:
SOC-03
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Saturday 25 June, 2022, -Paper short abstract:
Exploring the anti-colonial narrative of environmental mobilisations in Siberia paves the way to a deeper understanding of the struggles for power and land control in contemporary Russia, while enriching a deeply rooted historical tradition with new knowledge.
Paper long abstract:
This paper unveils the entrenchment of environmental mobilisation and anti-colonial stances in Siberia. Dynamics of internal colonisation in Russia have been thoroughly addressed by historians and social scientists, who explored the different implications of Russia being both the coloniser and the colonised. The territorial dimension of colonial patterns is crucial in Siberia, its land being exploited in multiple ways across centuries by a centre that was both geographically and metaphorically distant. Nowadays, Siberia hosts invasive infrastructure that severely threatens its ecosystem: paper mills, dams, pipelines, and waste disposal practices in the Lake Bajkal, as well as mines, and newly designed but highly polluting waste disposal infrastructure in rural areas. Over the last fifteen years, these projects sparked protests in the local communities. While the tactical repertoires, turnout, duration, and outcomes of the mobilisations varied considerably across cases, their common trait is a markedly anti-colonial rhetoric directed towards the federal centre. Using qualitative methods and secondary sources (mainly local media outlets), I analyse the discursive elements of the frames adopted by local communities to protest against infrastructural projects. I shed light on the colonial and anti-colonial dynamics that characterise the relationship between Moscow’s powerholders and Siberian communities, which represent a continuation of a deeply-rooted historical pattern. I argue that, nowadays, this pattern is particularly noticeable within environmental mobilisations, and that the entrenchment of internal colonial dynamics and environmental grassroot mobilisations is of crucial importance to understand the struggles for power and land control in contemporary Russia.
Paper short abstract:
Various methods have been developed to ensure anonymity and minimize the respondent's sense of danger, such as randomized response technique (RRT) and unmatched count technique (ICT). This article analyzes the heuristic possibilities of using ICT.
Paper long abstract:
Getting reliable answers to sensitive questions has been a longstanding problem in survey research in sociology. Various methods have been developed to ensure anonymity and minimize the respondent's sense of danger, such as randomized response technique (RRT) and unmatched count technique (ICT). This article analyzes the heuristic possibilities of using ICT. Proponents of this method argue that ICT guarantee anonymity and minimize the respondent's sense of danger. Thus, it helps to get reliable answers to sensitive questions. This study examines experimental methods in sociology, with particular emphasis on ICT. It also analyzes the definition of ICT, history, and research applications. The results indicate that ICT performed well compared to other methods (like RRT) on all measures assessed. The author concludes that ICT is a promising experimental method in self-directed surveys and that further research should be directed towards evaluating and improving this technique.
Paper short abstract:
This article examines how the notion of space is conceptualized and subsequently enacted by residents of two old districts in the historical Almaty center in conditions of planned demolition of the buildings
Paper long abstract:
This article examines how the notion of space is conceptualized and subsequently enacted by residents of two old districts in the historical city center in conditions of planned demolition of the buildings. The article, in particular, explores how the mental conception of ‘home’ is significant for an individual resident in epistemological mediation of own experiential capacity and transformative agency. In other words, we explored how individuals through the notion of ‘home’ form their attitudes and choices regarding the future of an urban space (i.e dilapidated houses and their potential replacement). ‘Home’ is conceptualized as a cognitive frame, which contains a human sense of a personal place in the world and provides epistemological means to organize a personal taxonomy of meanings about social relations and connections, significant activities of everyday life and extraordinary circumstances, and in context of our study the uses and transformation of urban space. Simultaneously, we found that the conception of ‘home’ is not conceived identically by all surveyed residents of two districts. The locus of ‘home’, and consequently the realm of agency, is shaped differently by interacting planes of various ‘urban’ to ‘global’ spaces. The research findings are analyzed in relation to global-urban relevance of urban spaces, intricacy of human agency as positioned in everyday urbanism and substantiation of tacit knowledge structures. The theoretical bases for the study are derived from the sociology of knowledge, adding this sociological perspective to the socio-spatial paradigm in urban theory. Empirical components included the survey with the residents of two dilapidated buildings of Almaty and in-depth interviews in the situation of possible demolition of the buildings.