CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Guga, Stefan |
|---|---|
| Title | The Political Economy of Traffic Congestion: System, Lifeworld and the Production of Space in Bucharest |
| Summary | This thesis deals with traffic congestion in Bucharest, Romania, from the perspective of the production of urban space. Congestion is analyzed both in its political-economic determinations and in its implications for everyday life, while the linkages between system and lifeworld are traced out theoretically and empirically in order to show, on the one hand, how traffic congestion emerges as part of the process of the urbanization of capital and, on the other, how the politics of congestion are embedded in the lived and conceived dimensions of the space of congestion. If congestion appears at first to point toward space becoming a barrier to capital accumulation, the political process whereby the creative destruction of space is legitimated is unraveled by looking at the ways in which space becomes a subjectively perceived obstacle to be overcome. In fulfilling this function, space itself proves to be hegemonic, as the problem of congestion is displaced into the lifeworld where it appears as a crisis of everyday social relations. |
| Supervisor | Judit Bodnár; Alexandra Kowalski |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/guga_stefan.pdf |
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