Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia
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in: Theory, Culture & Society, 17.12.2024.
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T1 - Organizing Counterpublics: Scenes from Contemporary Russia
AU - Kalinina, Anna
AU - Beyes, Timon
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/12/17
Y1 - 2024/12/17
N2 - Writings on counterpublics, publicness and the public realm present a theoretical and empirical dialectic of a public sphere in the singular and multiple counterpublics. We update and relocate this interplay by situating our paper in present-day Russia and the protests against the invasion of Ukraine. Through exemplary scenes of counterpublicness, and drawing upon Russian and Western scholarship, we develop a notion of counterpublics as a minimal condition of organization understood as the collective capacity to act. If the public sphere designates a controlled theatre for the organization of social experience, then the self-organized and dispersed struggle to enable moments of publicness keeps alive and rehearses political organizing under dire conditions.
AB - Writings on counterpublics, publicness and the public realm present a theoretical and empirical dialectic of a public sphere in the singular and multiple counterpublics. We update and relocate this interplay by situating our paper in present-day Russia and the protests against the invasion of Ukraine. Through exemplary scenes of counterpublicness, and drawing upon Russian and Western scholarship, we develop a notion of counterpublics as a minimal condition of organization understood as the collective capacity to act. If the public sphere designates a controlled theatre for the organization of social experience, then the self-organized and dispersed struggle to enable moments of publicness keeps alive and rehearses political organizing under dire conditions.
KW - Sociology
KW - counterpublics
KW - organization
KW - protest
KW - public sphere
KW - resistance
KW - russia
KW - self-organization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85211811264&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/02632764241299742
DO - 10.1177/02632764241299742
M3 - Journal articles
JO - Theory, Culture & Society
JF - Theory, Culture & Society
SN - 0263-2764
ER -