Smirnova
Biographic Data
| ID | 7163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Smirnova |
| FAMILY NAME | Smirnova |
| SIGNATURE | SMIRNOVA |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7552-1482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Constructing and contesting meta‐geographies in Russian area studies debates
This paper contributes to broader efforts to examine how ‘world‐writing’ practices operate beyond dominant area studies debates through the case of Russia. It traces the evolution of Russia's discipline of area studies through its two core meta‐geographies—the East and Eurasia, showing how they were constructed, contested and repurposed to make sense of other regions across the Soviet and post‐Soviet periods. Moving from anti‐colonial solidaritie…
An Invisible Threat Across Pastures and Farms
The article focuses on the epizootic of animal brucellosis in Kazakhstan in the 1930s and 1940s. Soviet authorities enforced large-scale modernization which was declared progressive compared to traditional nomadic pastoralism. In their policies towards animals, however, the Soviet authorities failed to consider that they dealt with living beings that were susceptible to infectious disease. This happened because changes were introduced under the c…
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries
This paper looks at the uncommonness of open space Urban Commons, i.e., squares, playgrounds, plazas, etc., in Central and Eastern European Countries. Such spaces are complex urban commons in terms of governance and are often contested in the frame of urbanisation and market-led processes of city-making, as well as for what they represent as constructs of values and identity. The four open space Urban Commons examples (respectively in Tirana, Pod…
Russia's spatial anxiety and the construction of geographical knowledge
This commentary addresses the dimensions of Russia's ‘spatial anxiety’—its inability to come to terms with the territorial delimitations of neighbouring states and, consequently, the preoccupation of mainstream political geography with the study of Russia‐centric territorial representations. Although geographical inquiry contributed substantially to understanding Russian territorial politics, most studies are often reduced to an analysis of the o…
More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory
The idea of territory as a bounded, state-centric enclosure has been recently confronted with the help of decolonial insights. This article attempts to overcome the resultant dichotomies between the statist and organic readings of territory by demonstrating how the making of the Russian state has been contingent on decolonial narratives and territorial imaginaries that have far exceeded the notions of the state as such. The Russian political geog…
From Systemic Underdevelopment to Basic Urban Maintenance
The case of urban development in the Russian periphery is often overlooked in the scholarly efforts to theorize the center-periphery dynamics characteristic of the post-socialist contexts, not least in the case of Russia. Consequently, the analysis of urban development initiatives in the regions and provinces defies the logic of large-scale urban projects with characteristic subdominant relations between the state and the private sector, since th…
Governing through stolichnaya praktika
The critical turn of resilience
This paper explores the structures of the critical literature on resilience by mapping the ways in which critical trajectories developed and travelled across thematic communities. We use bibliometric analysis to examine 49 years of scholarship on resilience from international relations, geography, political ecology, and other social science disciplines that foremost focused on questions of power, inequality, and social justice. As a result, this …
Territory, enclosure, and state territorial mode of production in the Russian imperial periphery
After the imperial land consolidation acts of 1906, the Russian land commune became a center of territorial struggle where complex alliances of actors, strategies, and representations of territory enacted land enclosure beyond the exclusive control of the state. Using original documentation of Russian imperial land deals obtained in the federal and municipal archives, this study explores how the Russian imperial state and territories in the perip…
Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms
Post-socialist cities possess qualities that often puzzle the urban studies reader since they unsettle common tropes of the modern Eurocentric urban condition. The question of whether we can make a
Governing through stolichnaya praktika
The critical turn of resilience
This paper explores the structures of the critical literature on resilience by mapping the ways in which critical trajectories developed and travelled across thematic communities. We use bibliometric analysis to examine 49 years of scholarship on resilience from international relations, geography, political ecology, and other social science disciplines that foremost focused on questions of power, inequality, and social justice. As a result, this …
Territory, enclosure, and state territorial mode of production in the Russian imperial periphery
After the imperial land consolidation acts of 1906, the Russian land commune became a center of territorial struggle where complex alliances of actors, strategies, and representations of territory enacted land enclosure beyond the exclusive control of the state. Using original documentation of Russian imperial land deals obtained in the federal and municipal archives, this study explores how the Russian imperial state and territories in the perip…
Russia's spatial anxiety and the construction of geographical knowledge
This commentary addresses the dimensions of Russia's ‘spatial anxiety’—its inability to come to terms with the territorial delimitations of neighbouring states and, consequently, the preoccupation of mainstream political geography with the study of Russia‐centric territorial representations. Although geographical inquiry contributed substantially to understanding Russian territorial politics, most studies are often reduced to an analysis of the o…
More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory
The idea of territory as a bounded, state-centric enclosure has been recently confronted with the help of decolonial insights. This article attempts to overcome the resultant dichotomies between the statist and organic readings of territory by demonstrating how the making of the Russian state has been contingent on decolonial narratives and territorial imaginaries that have far exceeded the notions of the state as such. The Russian political geog…
Constructing and contesting meta‐geographies in Russian area studies debates
This paper contributes to broader efforts to examine how ‘world‐writing’ practices operate beyond dominant area studies debates through the case of Russia. It traces the evolution of Russia's discipline of area studies through its two core meta‐geographies—the East and Eurasia, showing how they were constructed, contested and repurposed to make sense of other regions across the Soviet and post‐Soviet periods. Moving from anti‐colonial solidaritie…
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries
This paper looks at the uncommonness of open space Urban Commons, i.e., squares, playgrounds, plazas, etc., in Central and Eastern European Countries. Such spaces are complex urban commons in terms of governance and are often contested in the frame of urbanisation and market-led processes of city-making, as well as for what they represent as constructs of values and identity. The four open space Urban Commons examples (respectively in Tirana, Pod…
Territory, enclosure, and state territorial mode of production in the Russian imperial periphery
After the imperial land consolidation acts of 1906, the Russian land commune became a center of territorial struggle where complex alliances of actors, strategies, and representations of territory enacted land enclosure beyond the exclusive control of the state. Using original documentation of Russian imperial land deals obtained in the federal and municipal archives, this study explores how the Russian imperial state and territories in the perip…
Governing through stolichnaya praktika
The critical turn of resilience
This paper explores the structures of the critical literature on resilience by mapping the ways in which critical trajectories developed and travelled across thematic communities. We use bibliometric analysis to examine 49 years of scholarship on resilience from international relations, geography, political ecology, and other social science disciplines that foremost focused on questions of power, inequality, and social justice. As a result, this …
From Systemic Underdevelopment to Basic Urban Maintenance
The case of urban development in the Russian periphery is often overlooked in the scholarly efforts to theorize the center-periphery dynamics characteristic of the post-socialist contexts, not least in the case of Russia. Consequently, the analysis of urban development initiatives in the regions and provinces defies the logic of large-scale urban projects with characteristic subdominant relations between the state and the private sector, since th…
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries
This paper looks at the uncommonness of open space Urban Commons, i.e., squares, playgrounds, plazas, etc., in Central and Eastern European Countries. Such spaces are complex urban commons in terms of governance and are often contested in the frame of urbanisation and market-led processes of city-making, as well as for what they represent as constructs of values and identity. The four open space Urban Commons examples (respectively in Tirana, Pod…
Russia's spatial anxiety and the construction of geographical knowledge
This commentary addresses the dimensions of Russia's ‘spatial anxiety’—its inability to come to terms with the territorial delimitations of neighbouring states and, consequently, the preoccupation of mainstream political geography with the study of Russia‐centric territorial representations. Although geographical inquiry contributed substantially to understanding Russian territorial politics, most studies are often reduced to an analysis of the o…
More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory
The idea of territory as a bounded, state-centric enclosure has been recently confronted with the help of decolonial insights. This article attempts to overcome the resultant dichotomies between the statist and organic readings of territory by demonstrating how the making of the Russian state has been contingent on decolonial narratives and territorial imaginaries that have far exceeded the notions of the state as such. The Russian political geog…
Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms
Post-socialist cities possess qualities that often puzzle the urban studies reader since they unsettle common tropes of the modern Eurocentric urban condition. The question of whether we can make a
Constructing and contesting meta‐geographies in Russian area studies debates
This paper contributes to broader efforts to examine how ‘world‐writing’ practices operate beyond dominant area studies debates through the case of Russia. It traces the evolution of Russia's discipline of area studies through its two core meta‐geographies—the East and Eurasia, showing how they were constructed, contested and repurposed to make sense of other regions across the Soviet and post‐Soviet periods. Moving from anti‐colonial solidaritie…
An Invisible Threat Across Pastures and Farms
The article focuses on the epizootic of animal brucellosis in Kazakhstan in the 1930s and 1940s. Soviet authorities enforced large-scale modernization which was declared progressive compared to traditional nomadic pastoralism. In their policies towards animals, however, the Soviet authorities failed to consider that they dealt with living beings that were susceptible to infectious disease. This happened because changes were introduced under the c…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (4 works)