Oleg Golubchikov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oleg Golubchikov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oleg |
| FAMILY NAME | Golubchikov |
| SIGNATURE | GOLUBCHIKOV O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7355-0447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 368 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Unlikely climate pioneers? Net-zero governance and innovation in ‘left behind’ places
Humanising smart homes: For lived praxis in the digital age
Smart homes exemplify the contested pathways of the digitalisation of everyday life. Smart home systems promise improved comfort, resource optimisation, and efficiency, yet in practice they generate implementation inconsistencies, unfulfilled promises, and contradictions. Existing social science literature offers valuable critiques of smart home imaginaries and the recurring challenges that follow their deployment, as manifested in uneven uptake,…
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions
Urban studies have recently seen the emergence of perspectives that question the applicability of neoliberalism to the experiences of post-socialist states. This article offers conceptual clarifications in this regard. The work of Henri Lefebvre helps explicate the role of ‘the urban’ in making neoliberalism a ‘hidden ideology’ governing everyday consciousness and subjectivities. This argument is illustrated by a study of residential space fragme…
More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory: Commoning, Assembling, Peopling
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…
Measuring polycentric structures of megaregions in China: Linking morphological and functional dimensions
The idea of megaregions, which focuses on polycentricity, competitiveness, and integration attracts much attention in research and policy. China has used megaregions as a normative governance framework that leverages polycentric regional development for balancing economic competitiveness and spatial development. This paper explores to what extent these megaregions actually reveal polycentric versus monocentric structures. The analysis demonstrate…
Planning for the future of derelict farm premises: From abandonment to regeneration
Disaster and the lived politics of the resilient city
Energy periphery: Uneven development and the precarious geographies of low-carbon transition
The concept of a high-speed railway between the Indian Ocean and Alaska in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative
This paper reviews the antecedents and future potentials of a transcontinental high-speed railway from the Indian Ocean to the Bering Strait and Alaska. The original ideas date from the 19th century, but have regained relevance in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Apart from increasing connectivity between Eurasia and America and developing economic complementarities between different parts of the world, a high-speed railway would …
Robert Argenbright 2016: Moscow under Construction. City Building, Place‐Based Protest, and Civil Society . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
The urbanization of transition: Ideology and the urban experience
This paper debates the relationships between transition and urbanization by problematizing the operation of transition on three inter-related levels. Firstly, at the level of ideology, it is important to rehearse the understanding of transition from that of merely area-based reforms and rather understand it as a totalizing project of planetary reach, which completes the subjugation of the whole world to capitalism and crowns neoliberalism as the …
Can resilience be redeemed: Resilience as a metaphor for change, not against change
Resilience has been critiqued as being regressively status quo and thus propping up neo-liberalism, that it lacks transformative potential, and that it can be used as a pretence to cast off needy people and places. We move from this critique of resilience to a critical resilience, based in the following arguments: (i) resilience can sustain alternative and previous practices that contradict neo-liberalism; (ii) resilience is more active and dynam…
City as a geopolitics: Tbilisi, Georgia — A globalizing metropolis in a turbulent region
Tbilisi, a city of over a million, is the national capital of Georgia. Although little explored in urban studies, the city epitomizes a fascinating assemblage of processes that can illuminate the interplay of geopolitics, political choices, globalization discourses, histories, and urban contestations in shaping urban transformations. Tbilisi's strategic location in the South Caucasus, at the juncture of major historical empires and religions in E…
Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects
The Limits to Artist-Led Regeneration: Creative Brownfields in the Cities of High Culture
Despite the burgeoning literature on creative cities, seldom explored is the context of cities rich in cultural capital but more orthodox in their approach to preserving the autonomy of culture. This article discusses the status of artistic spaces occupying abandoned industrial premises ('creative brownfields') in historic cities that traditionally shape their policies around prestigious cultural institutions ('cities of high culture'). Based on …
Negotiating critical geographies through a “feel-trip”: Experiential, affective and critical learning in engaged fieldwork
The paper proposes the notion of a “critical feel-trip” as a pedagogical narrative to entertain the relationships of experiential, affective and critical learning in field-based studies. It is argued that explicit mobilization of the triadic relations of these three modes of learning is a powerful way to strengthen students' appreciation of human geography's concepts and to interrogate their positionality. The paper particularly draws on a fieldc…
The Hybrid Spatialities of Transition: Capitalism, Legacy and Uneven Urban Economic Restructuring
This paper conceptualises post-socialist urban economic geographies through the notion of hybrid spatialities that emerge from the mutual embeddedness of neoliberalism and socialist legacies. While the dismantling of state socialism was a massive moment towards the exacerbation of uneven development, ironically it is the socialist-era spatial legacy that has become the single major differentiating factor for the economic status of cities. This su…
Sustainable cities targeted by combined mitigation–adaptation efforts for future-proofing
The political economy of place at the post‐socialist urban periphery: Governing growth on the edge of Moscow
What economic and policy conditions and power relations govern the transformation of the metropolitan periphery in post‐socialist nations and to what extent do these converge on those observed in similar locations in the United States and Western Europe? Drawing on original empirical research conducted on location, we consider the case of the rapidly growing city of Khimki at the edge of Moscow in order to expose the post‐Soviet variety of the po…
World-City-Entrepreneurialism: Globalist Imaginaries, Neoliberal Geographies, and the Production of New St Petersburg
Whilst St Petersburg is not usually considered as a command-and-control centre in the organisation of global capitalism-a key characterisation of world cities to some proponents-I reveal how Russian political elites have been inspired by a world-city vision for St Petersburg and have begun pursuing specific spatial strategies to accommodate this vision. In order to explain this experience, I attempt to establish a firmer conceptual link between '…
Re-scaling the debate on Russian economic growth: Regional restructuring and development asynchronies
This article provides a critique of the literature on Russian economic growth and argues that broadening the growth debate to include regional perspectives may cast new light on economic processes at work in the varied geographical context of Russia. The article shows that growth in Russia's regions is much more comprehensive than often realised in the West and is closely associated with rising levels of industrial production in the overwhelming …
Interurban Development and Economic Disparities in a Russian Province
The paper explores the relationship among factors believed to influence the economic development potential of Russian cities in the post-Soviet period, based on a detailed case study of small and medium-sized urban places in Leningrad Oblast. Relying on rarely utilized statistical data (including local town censuses) collected during on-site research and interviews, the author constructs an economic development index that provides a reference for…
Gentrification in central moscow ‐ a market process or a deliberate policy? money, power and people in housing regeneration in ostozhenka
The recent process of housing redevelopment in central Moscow is examined in the light of the theory of gentrification. The study is based on the case of Ostozhenka as an emblematic example of a large–scale transformation of a central residential neighbourhood into the most expensive quarter of central Moscow. Using data collected through interviews, archive enquiries and field surveys, the paper addresses the preconditions, dynamics and mechanis…
Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects
Gentrification in central moscow ‐ a market process or a deliberate policy? money, power and people in housing regeneration in ostozhenka
The recent process of housing redevelopment in central Moscow is examined in the light of the theory of gentrification. The study is based on the case of Ostozhenka as an emblematic example of a large–scale transformation of a central residential neighbourhood into the most expensive quarter of central Moscow. Using data collected through interviews, archive enquiries and field surveys, the paper addresses the preconditions, dynamics and mechanis…
Can resilience be redeemed: Resilience as a metaphor for change, not against change
Resilience has been critiqued as being regressively status quo and thus propping up neo-liberalism, that it lacks transformative potential, and that it can be used as a pretence to cast off needy people and places. We move from this critique of resilience to a critical resilience, based in the following arguments: (i) resilience can sustain alternative and previous practices that contradict neo-liberalism; (ii) resilience is more active and dynam…
The Hybrid Spatialities of Transition: Capitalism, Legacy and Uneven Urban Economic Restructuring
This paper conceptualises post-socialist urban economic geographies through the notion of hybrid spatialities that emerge from the mutual embeddedness of neoliberalism and socialist legacies. While the dismantling of state socialism was a massive moment towards the exacerbation of uneven development, ironically it is the socialist-era spatial legacy that has become the single major differentiating factor for the economic status of cities. This su…
World-City-Entrepreneurialism: Globalist Imaginaries, Neoliberal Geographies, and the Production of New St Petersburg
Whilst St Petersburg is not usually considered as a command-and-control centre in the organisation of global capitalism-a key characterisation of world cities to some proponents-I reveal how Russian political elites have been inspired by a world-city vision for St Petersburg and have begun pursuing specific spatial strategies to accommodate this vision. In order to explain this experience, I attempt to establish a firmer conceptual link between '…
Negotiating critical geographies through a “feel-trip”: Experiential, affective and critical learning in engaged fieldwork
The paper proposes the notion of a “critical feel-trip” as a pedagogical narrative to entertain the relationships of experiential, affective and critical learning in field-based studies. It is argued that explicit mobilization of the triadic relations of these three modes of learning is a powerful way to strengthen students' appreciation of human geography's concepts and to interrogate their positionality. The paper particularly draws on a fieldc…
The political economy of place at the post‐socialist urban periphery: Governing growth on the edge of Moscow
What economic and policy conditions and power relations govern the transformation of the metropolitan periphery in post‐socialist nations and to what extent do these converge on those observed in similar locations in the United States and Western Europe? Drawing on original empirical research conducted on location, we consider the case of the rapidly growing city of Khimki at the edge of Moscow in order to expose the post‐Soviet variety of the po…
Disaster and the lived politics of the resilient city
The urbanization of transition: Ideology and the urban experience
This paper debates the relationships between transition and urbanization by problematizing the operation of transition on three inter-related levels. Firstly, at the level of ideology, it is important to rehearse the understanding of transition from that of merely area-based reforms and rather understand it as a totalizing project of planetary reach, which completes the subjugation of the whole world to capitalism and crowns neoliberalism as the …
The Limits to Artist-Led Regeneration: Creative Brownfields in the Cities of High Culture
Despite the burgeoning literature on creative cities, seldom explored is the context of cities rich in cultural capital but more orthodox in their approach to preserving the autonomy of culture. This article discusses the status of artistic spaces occupying abandoned industrial premises ('creative brownfields') in historic cities that traditionally shape their policies around prestigious cultural institutions ('cities of high culture'). Based on …
Planning for the future of derelict farm premises: From abandonment to regeneration
More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory: Commoning, Assembling, Peopling
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…
Re-scaling the debate on Russian economic growth: Regional restructuring and development asynchronies
This article provides a critique of the literature on Russian economic growth and argues that broadening the growth debate to include regional perspectives may cast new light on economic processes at work in the varied geographical context of Russia. The article shows that growth in Russia's regions is much more comprehensive than often realised in the West and is closely associated with rising levels of industrial production in the overwhelming …
City as a geopolitics: Tbilisi, Georgia — A globalizing metropolis in a turbulent region
Tbilisi, a city of over a million, is the national capital of Georgia. Although little explored in urban studies, the city epitomizes a fascinating assemblage of processes that can illuminate the interplay of geopolitics, political choices, globalization discourses, histories, and urban contestations in shaping urban transformations. Tbilisi's strategic location in the South Caucasus, at the juncture of major historical empires and religions in E…
Interurban Development and Economic Disparities in a Russian Province
The paper explores the relationship among factors believed to influence the economic development potential of Russian cities in the post-Soviet period, based on a detailed case study of small and medium-sized urban places in Leningrad Oblast. Relying on rarely utilized statistical data (including local town censuses) collected during on-site research and interviews, the author constructs an economic development index that provides a reference for…
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions
Urban studies have recently seen the emergence of perspectives that question the applicability of neoliberalism to the experiences of post-socialist states. This article offers conceptual clarifications in this regard. The work of Henri Lefebvre helps explicate the role of ‘the urban’ in making neoliberalism a ‘hidden ideology’ governing everyday consciousness and subjectivities. This argument is illustrated by a study of residential space fragme…
The concept of a high-speed railway between the Indian Ocean and Alaska in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative
This paper reviews the antecedents and future potentials of a transcontinental high-speed railway from the Indian Ocean to the Bering Strait and Alaska. The original ideas date from the 19th century, but have regained relevance in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Apart from increasing connectivity between Eurasia and America and developing economic complementarities between different parts of the world, a high-speed railway would …
Gentrification in central moscow ‐ a market process or a deliberate policy? money, power and people in housing regeneration in ostozhenka
The recent process of housing redevelopment in central Moscow is examined in the light of the theory of gentrification. The study is based on the case of Ostozhenka as an emblematic example of a large–scale transformation of a central residential neighbourhood into the most expensive quarter of central Moscow. Using data collected through interviews, archive enquiries and field surveys, the paper addresses the preconditions, dynamics and mechanis…
Interurban Development and Economic Disparities in a Russian Province
The paper explores the relationship among factors believed to influence the economic development potential of Russian cities in the post-Soviet period, based on a detailed case study of small and medium-sized urban places in Leningrad Oblast. Relying on rarely utilized statistical data (including local town censuses) collected during on-site research and interviews, the author constructs an economic development index that provides a reference for…
Re-scaling the debate on Russian economic growth: Regional restructuring and development asynchronies
This article provides a critique of the literature on Russian economic growth and argues that broadening the growth debate to include regional perspectives may cast new light on economic processes at work in the varied geographical context of Russia. The article shows that growth in Russia's regions is much more comprehensive than often realised in the West and is closely associated with rising levels of industrial production in the overwhelming …
World-City-Entrepreneurialism: Globalist Imaginaries, Neoliberal Geographies, and the Production of New St Petersburg
Whilst St Petersburg is not usually considered as a command-and-control centre in the organisation of global capitalism-a key characterisation of world cities to some proponents-I reveal how Russian political elites have been inspired by a world-city vision for St Petersburg and have begun pursuing specific spatial strategies to accommodate this vision. In order to explain this experience, I attempt to establish a firmer conceptual link between '…
The political economy of place at the post‐socialist urban periphery: Governing growth on the edge of Moscow
What economic and policy conditions and power relations govern the transformation of the metropolitan periphery in post‐socialist nations and to what extent do these converge on those observed in similar locations in the United States and Western Europe? Drawing on original empirical research conducted on location, we consider the case of the rapidly growing city of Khimki at the edge of Moscow in order to expose the post‐Soviet variety of the po…
Sustainable cities targeted by combined mitigation–adaptation efforts for future-proofing
The Hybrid Spatialities of Transition: Capitalism, Legacy and Uneven Urban Economic Restructuring
This paper conceptualises post-socialist urban economic geographies through the notion of hybrid spatialities that emerge from the mutual embeddedness of neoliberalism and socialist legacies. While the dismantling of state socialism was a massive moment towards the exacerbation of uneven development, ironically it is the socialist-era spatial legacy that has become the single major differentiating factor for the economic status of cities. This su…
Negotiating critical geographies through a “feel-trip”: Experiential, affective and critical learning in engaged fieldwork
The paper proposes the notion of a “critical feel-trip” as a pedagogical narrative to entertain the relationships of experiential, affective and critical learning in field-based studies. It is argued that explicit mobilization of the triadic relations of these three modes of learning is a powerful way to strengthen students' appreciation of human geography's concepts and to interrogate their positionality. The paper particularly draws on a fieldc…
The urbanization of transition: Ideology and the urban experience
This paper debates the relationships between transition and urbanization by problematizing the operation of transition on three inter-related levels. Firstly, at the level of ideology, it is important to rehearse the understanding of transition from that of merely area-based reforms and rather understand it as a totalizing project of planetary reach, which completes the subjugation of the whole world to capitalism and crowns neoliberalism as the …
Can resilience be redeemed: Resilience as a metaphor for change, not against change
Resilience has been critiqued as being regressively status quo and thus propping up neo-liberalism, that it lacks transformative potential, and that it can be used as a pretence to cast off needy people and places. We move from this critique of resilience to a critical resilience, based in the following arguments: (i) resilience can sustain alternative and previous practices that contradict neo-liberalism; (ii) resilience is more active and dynam…
City as a geopolitics: Tbilisi, Georgia — A globalizing metropolis in a turbulent region
Tbilisi, a city of over a million, is the national capital of Georgia. Although little explored in urban studies, the city epitomizes a fascinating assemblage of processes that can illuminate the interplay of geopolitics, political choices, globalization discourses, histories, and urban contestations in shaping urban transformations. Tbilisi's strategic location in the South Caucasus, at the juncture of major historical empires and religions in E…
Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects
The Limits to Artist-Led Regeneration: Creative Brownfields in the Cities of High Culture
Despite the burgeoning literature on creative cities, seldom explored is the context of cities rich in cultural capital but more orthodox in their approach to preserving the autonomy of culture. This article discusses the status of artistic spaces occupying abandoned industrial premises ('creative brownfields') in historic cities that traditionally shape their policies around prestigious cultural institutions ('cities of high culture'). Based on …
Robert Argenbright 2016: Moscow under Construction. City Building, Place‐Based Protest, and Civil Society . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Energy periphery: Uneven development and the precarious geographies of low-carbon transition
The concept of a high-speed railway between the Indian Ocean and Alaska in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative
This paper reviews the antecedents and future potentials of a transcontinental high-speed railway from the Indian Ocean to the Bering Strait and Alaska. The original ideas date from the 19th century, but have regained relevance in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Apart from increasing connectivity between Eurasia and America and developing economic complementarities between different parts of the world, a high-speed railway would …
Measuring polycentric structures of megaregions in China: Linking morphological and functional dimensions
The idea of megaregions, which focuses on polycentricity, competitiveness, and integration attracts much attention in research and policy. China has used megaregions as a normative governance framework that leverages polycentric regional development for balancing economic competitiveness and spatial development. This paper explores to what extent these megaregions actually reveal polycentric versus monocentric structures. The analysis demonstrate…
Planning for the future of derelict farm premises: From abandonment to regeneration
Disaster and the lived politics of the resilient city
More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory: Commoning, Assembling, Peopling
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…
Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions
Urban studies have recently seen the emergence of perspectives that question the applicability of neoliberalism to the experiences of post-socialist states. This article offers conceptual clarifications in this regard. The work of Henri Lefebvre helps explicate the role of ‘the urban’ in making neoliberalism a ‘hidden ideology’ governing everyday consciousness and subjectivities. This argument is illustrated by a study of residential space fragme…
Unlikely climate pioneers? Net-zero governance and innovation in ‘left behind’ places
Humanising smart homes: For lived praxis in the digital age
Smart homes exemplify the contested pathways of the digitalisation of everyday life. Smart home systems promise improved comfort, resource optimisation, and efficiency, yet in practice they generate implementation inconsistencies, unfulfilled promises, and contradictions. Existing social science literature offers valuable critiques of smart home imaginaries and the recurring challenges that follow their deployment, as manifested in uneven uptake,…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works)