Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2020.1768134" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2020.1768134</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2020.1768134" target="_blank" >10.1080/15387216.2020.1768134</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas

Original language description

Climate change is the epitome of a global issue. Cities and their inhabitants face locally specific, yet still globally shared and interconnected problems from heat waves, storms, coastal or fluvial floods to water scarcity, all of which puts pressure on their infrastructure as well as social institutions. Yet, it has been argued that academic research on cities and climate change has so far represented the urban world fractionally, as most case studies of cities are from the developed world. Moreover, urban scholars have been criticized for not being able to fully grasp the transformations that cities are undergoing, nor being able to apply critical urban theory to this field. This article uses these stimuli to critically review current internationally published research on “post-socialist cities” in the context of climate change. It observes how empirical research in this multidisciplinary area is, first, still relatively scarce and especially very recent, and second, that it is largely disconnected from conceptual debates led in urban studies. I argue that this underdeveloped discussion not only slows down development of a more critical academic perspective on the issue that would be based in urban studies of Central and East European cities, but it can also impact how responses to climate change are thought through by local actors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-05263S" target="_blank" >GA17-05263S: Local response to climate change in the Czech Republic: a sociological perspective</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Eurasian Geography and Economics

ISSN

1538-7216

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

61

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

686-710

UT code for WoS article

000542460300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086673463