title: The city as the stage for a war of narratives: the case of the Yekaterinburg tower
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metadata.value: Abashev, Vladimir V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-12T09:14:45Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-02-12T09:14:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Abashev, V. V. (2019). The city as the stage for a war of narratives: the case of the Yekaterinburg tower. Media Linguistics, 6 (4), 454–466.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2019.403
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17068
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes the reaction of the city community to the demolition of an unfinished TV
  tower in Yekaterinburg. In the course of collective storytelling about the tower, an extensive
  archive of verbal narratives was formed. This archive has become the object of analysis focused
  on the interrelated problems manifested in the competition of narratives about the fate of the
  tower. These problems represent a harmonization of urban communications and the adequacy
  of technocratic rationality in understanding the values of urban development. The paradox of
  the Yekaterinburg case is that a sharp controversy involving the authorities, business and city
  communities broke out around the ruins — a “useless” object from the point of view of technocratic
  rationality. The analysis of competing narratives of the tower in the article is based
  on the concept of urban narratives as a constructive element of the urban environment. The
  article attempts to highlight the main master narratives that formed the basis of controversy
  around the tower. While the authorities appealed to the urban community from the standpoint
  of the modernist narrative of a “bright future,” the citizens opposed this technocratic
  rational narrative with an array of personal stories. These stories are united by a master narrative,
  which could be tentatively defined as poetic. An important role in substantiating the
  value of the tower was played by the master narrative of the greatness and mysteries of the
  mythologized Soviet past. The history of the tower has clearly demonstrated the clash of rational
  and symbolic order in the development of the modern city and illustrated the value and
  persistence of the symbolic. The city community rallied to defend the “useless” object in spite
  of the authority’s rational arguments since the tower had become a significant symbolic locus
  of the city, the generator of city stories.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was carried out with the financial support of the RFBR project № 18-412-590008 p_a “New
  urban media in the local communication space”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 6; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urban media
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urban narratives
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: storytelling
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urban planning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: master narrative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The city as the stage for a war of narratives: the case of the Yekaterinburg tower
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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