Manufacturing Consent for Engineering Earth: Social Dynamics in Boston’s Big Dig

In recent years, political and social conditions have changed dramatically. Many analyses help to capture these dynamics. However, they produce political pessimism: on the one hand there is the image of regression and on the other, a direct link is made between socio-economic decline and the rise of the far-right. To counter these aspects, this article argues that current political events are to be understood less as ‘regression’ but rather as a moment of movement and the return of deep political struggles. Referring to Jacques Ranciere’s political thought, the current conditions can be captured as the ‘end of post-democracy’. This approach changes the perspective on current social dynamics in a productive way. It allows for an emphasis on movement and the recognition of the windows of opportunity for emancipatory struggles.

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At the final stage of the global crisis: Economic tasksin 2017-2019

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-3-5-29 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 5-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

V. A. Mau

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Final Stage ◽

Government Regulation ◽

Inflation Targeting ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Growth Stimulation ◽

Central Banks ◽

Economic Area ◽

National Trends

The paper deals with the global and national trends of economic and social development at the final stage of the global structural crisis. Special attention is paid to intellectual challenges economists will face with in the post-crisis world: prospects of growth without inflation, new global currencies and the role of cryptocurrencies, central banks independence and their role in economic growth stimulation, new tasks and patterns of government regulation, inequality and growth. Special features of Russian post-crisis development are also under consideration. Among them: prospects of macroeconomic support of growth, inflation targeting, new fiscal rule, social dynamics and new challenges to welfare state. The paper concludes that the main obstacles for economic growth in Russia are concentrated in the non-economic area.

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Social development of modern Russia: trends, risks, prospects

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-10-76-89 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 76-89

Author(s):

E. M. Avraamova ◽

V. N. Titov

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Social Development ◽

Social Structure ◽

Structure Formation ◽

Resource Availability ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Quantitative Estimation ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Institutional Conditions ◽

Resource Characteristics

The analysis of present-time directions in the study of social development has allowed to identify the resource approach as the most productive one which enables to assess social dynamics through the range of resource characteristics of different population groups and abilities of the relevant groups to apply development resources in the current economic and institutional conditions. Basing on the sociological survey conducted by ISAP RANEPA, the quantitative estimation of material and social recourses of the population has been made; integral values of the resource potential have been calculated as well. The issues of social structure formation are analyzed through the aspect of resource availability; the barriers of Russian middle-class enlargement are defined.

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On the Causes of Socio-Economic Inequality Reproduction: What Does Resources Approach Show?

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2014-7-144-160 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 144-160

Author(s):

E. Avraamova ◽

T. Maleva

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Economic Inequality ◽

Poverty Rate ◽

Economic Behavior ◽

Sample Survey ◽

Family Welfare ◽

Rate Reduction ◽

Rational Models ◽

Information Database ◽

Vertical Mobility

This paper presents an attempt at answering the question of why the scope of socio-economic inequality stays the same in Russia despite the poverty rate reduction. The authors are looking for the causes of this phenomenon in the domain of social dynamics, i.e., in the nature of current vertical mobility mechanisms. To study these mechanisms the authors use resources approach. The information database of the research is the representative sample survey carried by the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting at RANEPA in 2013. The majority of the respondents have, in fact, vague idea of general parameters of the economic development of the country and of their personal prospects to adapt to possible changes. This state of things hinders the development of rational models of socio-economic behavior directed towards the growth of personal and family welfare and productive in terms of national economy development - these, eventually, would advance the reduction of socio-economic inequality. Various groups of population are predominantly oriented towards converting social capital viewed not in terms of trust and solidarity, but in terms of ties or connections and of personal loyalty.

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Organisational and Social Dynamics

10.33212/osd ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics

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