Maria Gunko
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1433192 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maria Gunko |
| PRENOMES | Maria |
| SOBRENOME | Gunko |
| ASSINATURA | GUNKO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5994-6368 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Postsocialism through the lens of shrinking cities and urban infrastructure
Nothing there . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance
Yerevan “Unarchitected”
The article examines how the architecture of modernity, particularly in the context of Soviet urban planning, serves as a multidimensional tool of governance, embodying the ideology and goals of the ruling elite while shaping the daily lives of urban residents. Through the analysis of “unarchitected” architecture and residential spaces in Yerevan, the study highlights the impact of modernization and subsequent de-modernization on the city’s struc…
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their own normative assumptions and aspirations when c…
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state
The literature on shrinking cities often portrays local initiatives in two contrasting ways: either as marginal, powerless, and somewhat backwards-oriented actors, or as human capital, a resource for development, and even as the hope for a more democratic development. However, there is a risk that scholarship unintentionally contributes to local initiatives being included in neoliberal development agendas. During our field research in two small, …
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine
The contributions in this Forum analyse the Russian war against Ukraine from the micro perspective of everyday life, conveyed by scholars who have been impacted at a variety of personal levels. Framed within the existential threat that continues to endanger Ukrainians and Ukraine, the contributions collected here embrace the messiness of lived experience away from the grand narratives that circulate at global scales. Instead, the authors explore …
Periphery, uncertainty, and legacy
This paper discusses intercity networks within the former Soviet Union (FSU), a semi-periphery of the global economic system of interactions. Intercity networks are constructed following an assumption that interaction between offices of the same corporation indicates connectivity between cities. In the FSU global corporations operate against a backdrop of continuous uncertainty. Consequently, it is possible to estimate temporal dynamics and spati…
From policy mobility to top-down policy transfer
As cities around the world increasingly seek to brand themselves as comfortable and liveable places, policies aimed at enhancing the quality of the urban environment are becoming more important. Scholars interpret this development as evidence of reinforced urban entrepreneurialism and neoliberalization. The current paper focuses on comfortable city policies in Russia, where political, social and economic transformations were often depicted as the…
Lost in transformation
Since the 1990s, many countries have implemented healthcare reforms underlined by New Public Management principles and technological transformations. Although studies have examined these reforms from different viewpoints, the spatial implications of healthcare reforms have received limited attention. Scholarship focused predominantly on regional variations of healthcare provision overlooking the sharp contrasts between cities where most healthcar…
Russian imperial gaze
Rethinking urban form in a shrinking Arctic city
Shrinking cities – places which need to ‘narrow down’ the too spacious settings – pose challenges to the mainstream urban planning which naturalizes growth and direct approaches advocating it. While shrinking cities are located worldwide, responses to the phenomenon are place-specific depending on the knowledge and resources of decision-makers, as well as the discourses of the desired spatial development. In this sense, it is still not precisely …
Exploring agency of change in small industrial towns through urban renewal initiatives
This article brings attention to the diversity of urban conditions, actors, agency, and development paths in contrast to the imperatives of urban entrepreneurialism and competitiveness. Rather than presupposing the critical role of exogenous sources of growth, the aim of the current paper is in exploring empirically the role of local agency in achieving continuity or change through the lens of urban renewal. The data is drawn from three case stud…
Who defines urban regeneration? Comparative analysis of medium-sized cities in Poland and Russia
The aim of the current study was to identify the main actors (leaders) involved in transformations of mediumsized cities in Poland and Russia that share similar legacies but took different development paths after the collapse of state socialism. These transformations are discussed using the framework of urban regeneration and are based on empirical data from two cities – Kolomna (Russia) and Kalisz (Poland). The data were obtained through expert …
Dull Place or Green Idyll
Nowadays small cities often lose population. In countries which are forerunners of the demographic transition, depopulation is mainly driven by out‐migration of youth. Through a case study of students from small Russian cities, this paper explores the nature of the association between local identity (LI) and migration intentions. The study suggests that young people with a stronger LI are on average more prone to return to their native cities aft…
Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow
Small towns in the central part of European Russia
This paper presents the results of studying the socioeconomic dynamics and modern state of small towns in the central part of European Russia in 1998–2010. The socioeconomic welfare of cities with a population of less than 50000 people was revealed to depend on their population, specialization, and geographical location, confirming the general Russian trend. An analysis of the dynamics of industrial output in 1994–2004 showed that the presence of…
Exploring agency of change in small industrial towns through urban renewal initiatives
This article brings attention to the diversity of urban conditions, actors, agency, and development paths in contrast to the imperatives of urban entrepreneurialism and competitiveness. Rather than presupposing the critical role of exogenous sources of growth, the aim of the current paper is in exploring empirically the role of local agency in achieving continuity or change through the lens of urban renewal. The data is drawn from three case stud…
From policy mobility to top-down policy transfer
As cities around the world increasingly seek to brand themselves as comfortable and liveable places, policies aimed at enhancing the quality of the urban environment are becoming more important. Scholars interpret this development as evidence of reinforced urban entrepreneurialism and neoliberalization. The current paper focuses on comfortable city policies in Russia, where political, social and economic transformations were often depicted as the…
Russian imperial gaze
Nothing there . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state
The literature on shrinking cities often portrays local initiatives in two contrasting ways: either as marginal, powerless, and somewhat backwards-oriented actors, or as human capital, a resource for development, and even as the hope for a more democratic development. However, there is a risk that scholarship unintentionally contributes to local initiatives being included in neoliberal development agendas. During our field research in two small, …
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine
The contributions in this Forum analyse the Russian war against Ukraine from the micro perspective of everyday life, conveyed by scholars who have been impacted at a variety of personal levels. Framed within the existential threat that continues to endanger Ukrainians and Ukraine, the contributions collected here embrace the messiness of lived experience away from the grand narratives that circulate at global scales. Instead, the authors explore …
Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their own normative assumptions and aspirations when c…
Dull Place or Green Idyll
Nowadays small cities often lose population. In countries which are forerunners of the demographic transition, depopulation is mainly driven by out‐migration of youth. Through a case study of students from small Russian cities, this paper explores the nature of the association between local identity (LI) and migration intentions. The study suggests that young people with a stronger LI are on average more prone to return to their native cities aft…
Small towns in the central part of European Russia
This paper presents the results of studying the socioeconomic dynamics and modern state of small towns in the central part of European Russia in 1998–2010. The socioeconomic welfare of cities with a population of less than 50000 people was revealed to depend on their population, specialization, and geographical location, confirming the general Russian trend. An analysis of the dynamics of industrial output in 1994–2004 showed that the presence of…
Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow
Dull Place or Green Idyll
Nowadays small cities often lose population. In countries which are forerunners of the demographic transition, depopulation is mainly driven by out‐migration of youth. Through a case study of students from small Russian cities, this paper explores the nature of the association between local identity (LI) and migration intentions. The study suggests that young people with a stronger LI are on average more prone to return to their native cities aft…
Who defines urban regeneration? Comparative analysis of medium-sized cities in Poland and Russia
The aim of the current study was to identify the main actors (leaders) involved in transformations of mediumsized cities in Poland and Russia that share similar legacies but took different development paths after the collapse of state socialism. These transformations are discussed using the framework of urban regeneration and are based on empirical data from two cities – Kolomna (Russia) and Kalisz (Poland). The data were obtained through expert …
Rethinking urban form in a shrinking Arctic city
Shrinking cities – places which need to ‘narrow down’ the too spacious settings – pose challenges to the mainstream urban planning which naturalizes growth and direct approaches advocating it. While shrinking cities are located worldwide, responses to the phenomenon are place-specific depending on the knowledge and resources of decision-makers, as well as the discourses of the desired spatial development. In this sense, it is still not precisely …
Exploring agency of change in small industrial towns through urban renewal initiatives
This article brings attention to the diversity of urban conditions, actors, agency, and development paths in contrast to the imperatives of urban entrepreneurialism and competitiveness. Rather than presupposing the critical role of exogenous sources of growth, the aim of the current paper is in exploring empirically the role of local agency in achieving continuity or change through the lens of urban renewal. The data is drawn from three case stud…
From policy mobility to top-down policy transfer
As cities around the world increasingly seek to brand themselves as comfortable and liveable places, policies aimed at enhancing the quality of the urban environment are becoming more important. Scholars interpret this development as evidence of reinforced urban entrepreneurialism and neoliberalization. The current paper focuses on comfortable city policies in Russia, where political, social and economic transformations were often depicted as the…
Lost in transformation
Since the 1990s, many countries have implemented healthcare reforms underlined by New Public Management principles and technological transformations. Although studies have examined these reforms from different viewpoints, the spatial implications of healthcare reforms have received limited attention. Scholarship focused predominantly on regional variations of healthcare provision overlooking the sharp contrasts between cities where most healthcar…
Russian imperial gaze
Periphery, uncertainty, and legacy
This paper discusses intercity networks within the former Soviet Union (FSU), a semi-periphery of the global economic system of interactions. Intercity networks are constructed following an assumption that interaction between offices of the same corporation indicates connectivity between cities. In the FSU global corporations operate against a backdrop of continuous uncertainty. Consequently, it is possible to estimate temporal dynamics and spati…
Yerevan “Unarchitected”
The article examines how the architecture of modernity, particularly in the context of Soviet urban planning, serves as a multidimensional tool of governance, embodying the ideology and goals of the ruling elite while shaping the daily lives of urban residents. Through the analysis of “unarchitected” architecture and residential spaces in Yerevan, the study highlights the impact of modernization and subsequent de-modernization on the city’s struc…
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities
Questions of responsibility for future‐making often arise in localities where the withdrawal of capital and state seem to leave tangible voids and a sense of loss. Over the past decade, academic discourse has furthered discussions on the role of civic engagement, local initiatives and their agency under conditions of urban shrinkage. However, scholars (including ourselves) are confronted with their own normative assumptions and aspirations when c…
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state
The literature on shrinking cities often portrays local initiatives in two contrasting ways: either as marginal, powerless, and somewhat backwards-oriented actors, or as human capital, a resource for development, and even as the hope for a more democratic development. However, there is a risk that scholarship unintentionally contributes to local initiatives being included in neoliberal development agendas. During our field research in two small, …
The Intimate and Everyday Geopolitics of the Russian War Against Ukraine
The contributions in this Forum analyse the Russian war against Ukraine from the micro perspective of everyday life, conveyed by scholars who have been impacted at a variety of personal levels. Framed within the existential threat that continues to endanger Ukrainians and Ukraine, the contributions collected here embrace the messiness of lived experience away from the grand narratives that circulate at global scales. Instead, the authors explore …
Postsocialism through the lens of shrinking cities and urban infrastructure
Nothing there . A small Armenian town between disappearance and endurance
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