Wladimir Sgibnev
Biographic Data
| ID | 265485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wladimir Sgibnev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Sgibnev |
| SIGNATURE | SGIBNEV W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8719-8720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Moving post-socialist publics: Citizens, spaces, and practices
This Introduction to the Special Issue on moving post-socialist publics aims to lay out how existing mobility politics and discourses in the region under scrutiny are intertwined with historical, socialist-era mobility practices, and infrastructures.Mobility paths and policies are imbued with a contested understanding of socialist legacies as well as capitalist realities.The Special Issue explores how transport options and choices confront citize…
Public transport as public space: Introduction
Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages betwe…
When means of transport move: German export of second-hand tramways
Microtransit – Alternative mobility offers in Germany, 2022
Spaces of exposure: Re-thinking 'publicness' through public transport
Developing thoughts on exposure in cultural geography, literary studies, and mobilities research, this article aims to provide a more comprehensive account towards the publicness of public space. What would happen if we assessed publicness not by degrees of openness and inclusion, but through the nexus of vulnerability and complicity that is fundamental to the notion of exposure? To grasp such an intrinsic dualism, our perspective goes towards pu…
Post‐socialist infrastructuring
Infrastructures from different time periods, installed for different purposes in often discordant political and economic systems, function alongside one another in contemporary cities. While infrastructures attracted a great deal of attention in geographical research, the “East” of Europe has still largely been left out, as the studies mostly focused on the global North and the global South. This paper, thus, takes on two challenges by intersecti…
Theorising informality and social embeddedness for the study of informal transport. Lessons from the marshrutka mobility phenomenon
Placing Transport Workers on the Agenda: The Conflicting Logics of Governing Mobility on Bishkek's Marshrutkas
Transport workers are conspicuously absent from both mobilities and urban studies literature. This paper therefore starts out with a double critique. First, transport workers, primarily drivers, are largely disregarded in mobilities and urban transport research. Second, the literature we find on transport workers—mostly based in empirical settings in the global South—remains outside recent and ongoing debates in critical urban transport studies. …
Uber, Marshrutkas and socially (dis-)embedded mobilities
This article offers a first comparative discussion about ride-sharing (ride-sourcing) practices and informal transport. It focuses primarily on Uber, and marshrutkas – a socially and economically crucial mobility offer prevailing in many post-Soviet cities. The absence or evasion of state regulations, low labour standards of transport workers, and high safety risks for passengers unite the high-tech globalised corporate ride-sourcing sector and l…
Assemblages of mobility: The marshrutkas of Central Asia
This article addresses reconfigurations of urban space in Central Asia through the lens of marshrutka mobility. Marshrutka-based transport is – together with the bazaar trade – a major sector of Central Asian economy. Although precise data are not available, estimates propose that one family in ten gains its income through it. In spite of its economic and social importance, there has barely been any research on marshrutka mobility so far. The mar…
Rhythms of being together: Public space in Urban Tajikistan through the lens of rhythmanalysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe and critically assess public space in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, recurring to Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis. Design/Methodology/Approach – The empirical findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork on a courtyard in a housing estate in Khujand in northern Tajikistan. Findings – The paper argues that an analytic dichotomy between the private and the public rea…
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Urban Public Transport and the State in Post-Soviet Central Asia
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, tramway and trolleybus systems were reduced substantially in the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Despite being very costly for passengers, however, these transport systems have continued to run in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. In this chapter I will argue that in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan the significance of trolleybuses goes beyond their capacity to transport people. Funct…
Theorising informality and social embeddedness for the study of informal transport. Lessons from the marshrutka mobility phenomenon
Assemblages of mobility: The marshrutkas of Central Asia
This article addresses reconfigurations of urban space in Central Asia through the lens of marshrutka mobility. Marshrutka-based transport is – together with the bazaar trade – a major sector of Central Asian economy. Although precise data are not available, estimates propose that one family in ten gains its income through it. In spite of its economic and social importance, there has barely been any research on marshrutka mobility so far. The mar…
Placing Transport Workers on the Agenda: The Conflicting Logics of Governing Mobility on Bishkek's Marshrutkas
Transport workers are conspicuously absent from both mobilities and urban studies literature. This paper therefore starts out with a double critique. First, transport workers, primarily drivers, are largely disregarded in mobilities and urban transport research. Second, the literature we find on transport workers—mostly based in empirical settings in the global South—remains outside recent and ongoing debates in critical urban transport studies. …
Uber, Marshrutkas and socially (dis-)embedded mobilities
This article offers a first comparative discussion about ride-sharing (ride-sourcing) practices and informal transport. It focuses primarily on Uber, and marshrutkas – a socially and economically crucial mobility offer prevailing in many post-Soviet cities. The absence or evasion of state regulations, low labour standards of transport workers, and high safety risks for passengers unite the high-tech globalised corporate ride-sourcing sector and l…
Public transport as public space: Introduction
Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages betwe…
Spaces of exposure: Re-thinking 'publicness' through public transport
Developing thoughts on exposure in cultural geography, literary studies, and mobilities research, this article aims to provide a more comprehensive account towards the publicness of public space. What would happen if we assessed publicness not by degrees of openness and inclusion, but through the nexus of vulnerability and complicity that is fundamental to the notion of exposure? To grasp such an intrinsic dualism, our perspective goes towards pu…
Moving post-socialist publics: Citizens, spaces, and practices
This Introduction to the Special Issue on moving post-socialist publics aims to lay out how existing mobility politics and discourses in the region under scrutiny are intertwined with historical, socialist-era mobility practices, and infrastructures.Mobility paths and policies are imbued with a contested understanding of socialist legacies as well as capitalist realities.The Special Issue explores how transport options and choices confront citize…
Post‐socialist infrastructuring
Infrastructures from different time periods, installed for different purposes in often discordant political and economic systems, function alongside one another in contemporary cities. While infrastructures attracted a great deal of attention in geographical research, the “East” of Europe has still largely been left out, as the studies mostly focused on the global North and the global South. This paper, thus, takes on two challenges by intersecti…
When means of transport move: German export of second-hand tramways
Rhythms of being together: Public space in Urban Tajikistan through the lens of rhythmanalysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe and critically assess public space in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, recurring to Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis. Design/Methodology/Approach – The empirical findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork on a courtyard in a housing estate in Khujand in northern Tajikistan. Findings – The paper argues that an analytic dichotomy between the private and the public rea…
Urban Public Transport and the State in Post-Soviet Central Asia
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, tramway and trolleybus systems were reduced substantially in the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Despite being very costly for passengers, however, these transport systems have continued to run in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. In this chapter I will argue that in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan the significance of trolleybuses goes beyond their capacity to transport people. Funct…
Rhythms of being together: Public space in Urban Tajikistan through the lens of rhythmanalysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe and critically assess public space in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, recurring to Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis. Design/Methodology/Approach – The empirical findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork on a courtyard in a housing estate in Khujand in northern Tajikistan. Findings – The paper argues that an analytic dichotomy between the private and the public rea…
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Assemblages of mobility: The marshrutkas of Central Asia
This article addresses reconfigurations of urban space in Central Asia through the lens of marshrutka mobility. Marshrutka-based transport is – together with the bazaar trade – a major sector of Central Asian economy. Although precise data are not available, estimates propose that one family in ten gains its income through it. In spite of its economic and social importance, there has barely been any research on marshrutka mobility so far. The mar…
Placing Transport Workers on the Agenda: The Conflicting Logics of Governing Mobility on Bishkek's Marshrutkas
Transport workers are conspicuously absent from both mobilities and urban studies literature. This paper therefore starts out with a double critique. First, transport workers, primarily drivers, are largely disregarded in mobilities and urban transport research. Second, the literature we find on transport workers—mostly based in empirical settings in the global South—remains outside recent and ongoing debates in critical urban transport studies. …
Uber, Marshrutkas and socially (dis-)embedded mobilities
This article offers a first comparative discussion about ride-sharing (ride-sourcing) practices and informal transport. It focuses primarily on Uber, and marshrutkas – a socially and economically crucial mobility offer prevailing in many post-Soviet cities. The absence or evasion of state regulations, low labour standards of transport workers, and high safety risks for passengers unite the high-tech globalised corporate ride-sourcing sector and l…
Theorising informality and social embeddedness for the study of informal transport. Lessons from the marshrutka mobility phenomenon
Post‐socialist infrastructuring
Infrastructures from different time periods, installed for different purposes in often discordant political and economic systems, function alongside one another in contemporary cities. While infrastructures attracted a great deal of attention in geographical research, the “East” of Europe has still largely been left out, as the studies mostly focused on the global North and the global South. This paper, thus, takes on two challenges by intersecti…
When means of transport move: German export of second-hand tramways
Microtransit – Alternative mobility offers in Germany, 2022
Spaces of exposure: Re-thinking 'publicness' through public transport
Developing thoughts on exposure in cultural geography, literary studies, and mobilities research, this article aims to provide a more comprehensive account towards the publicness of public space. What would happen if we assessed publicness not by degrees of openness and inclusion, but through the nexus of vulnerability and complicity that is fundamental to the notion of exposure? To grasp such an intrinsic dualism, our perspective goes towards pu…
Public transport as public space: Introduction
Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages betwe…
Moving post-socialist publics: Citizens, spaces, and practices
This Introduction to the Special Issue on moving post-socialist publics aims to lay out how existing mobility politics and discourses in the region under scrutiny are intertwined with historical, socialist-era mobility practices, and infrastructures.Mobility paths and policies are imbued with a contested understanding of socialist legacies as well as capitalist realities.The Special Issue explores how transport options and choices confront citize…
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