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There's also Ivan Illitch who asserted "true democracy is not possible unless nothing travels faster than a bicycle". In other words, faster travel produces longer reaches of power, both political and economic, so the majority then become ruled and economically dominated by remote govts and corporations and supply chains, over which they have little say, or knowledge, or influence. Presumably he liked the small city-states system of mediaeval Germany or Italy. So he would have been anti globalisation - not sure where this would have led him on the status of the European Union though. Dr Hillary J. Shaw Visiting Fellow - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity Department of Politics and Public Policy De Montfort University LE1 9BH www.fooddeserts.org -----Original Message----- From: Kuba Jablonowski <[log in to unmask]> To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, Aug 21, 2018 9:16 am Subject: Re: History of Russian ideas and influence on geography Привет всем! Mikhail Bakhtin, a literary theorist and philosopher, also has had some influence. In that widely cited paper from 2006 Joe Painter wrote: "Bakhtin’s work has received only limited attention from geographers (Folch-Serra, 1990; Holloway & Kneale, 2000), although some have used a number of his key concepts such as the carnivalesque (Brown, 2004), polyphony (Crang, 1992) and dialogism (Chatterton, 2006; Sutherland, 2004). For my purposes here, it is Bakhtin’s theory of ‘prosaics’ that is most rel- evant (see also Campbell, 1996). In fact the term ‘prosaics’ itself was not used by Bakhtin but is a later coinage. It has been proposed by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson to refer to two interrelated aspects of Bakhtin’s work. In contrast to ‘poetics’, prosaics ‘designates a theory of literature that privileges prose in general and the novel in particular over the poetic genres’ and, much more broadly, ‘it is a form of thinking that presumes the importance of the everyday, the ordinary, the ‘‘prosaic’’’ (Morson & Emerson, 1990)." Also, more recently (in 2017) Aija Lulle drew on Bakhtin's work on dialogism to analyse return migration of young people to Latvia. The key thing she takes from Bakhtin is that while "we can separate individual and social register analytically, subjective experience can never be only individual. Co-expereince is a new experience, born in a dialogue between a person who witnesses certain events and experiences in lives of other people and through his or her subjectivity, coming from his or her inner world (Bakhtin 1997: 91)." She also points out interesting parallels in Bakhtin's thinking about personification and Massey's thinking about relational space. There's probably more of Bakhtin in geography, but these are the bits I know about: Joe Painter (2006) Prosaic geographies of stateness. Political Geography 25 (2006) 752-774 Aija Lulle (2017) The Need to Belong: Latvian Youth Returns As Dialogic Work. In: Zana Vathi, Russell King (eds) Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and Their Families. London, New York: Routledge. All best Kuba Jablonowski Postgraduate Researcher in Geography University of Exeter ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1