Drawing on the concept of biopower and projecting it into the realm of the city, this book explores a multidisciplinary comparative analysis of two countries – Estonia and Ukraine – from the viewpoint of urban biopolitics, a concept that allows us to see how various groups of urban populations come into life and why their lifestyles matter for political calculations. It dissects the interconnections between the geopolitical conditions of military conflict with Russia in Ukraine and European institutional membership in Estonia, and forms of urban biopolitical governance. In doing so, the book highlights how cities become sites where global pressures and local political management converge.
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and has co-authored four monographs, most recently Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (Lexington Books, 2023).
BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC026030 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Urban; SOC026040 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Social Theory
