Political Urban and Rural Studies: Introducing the Issue

Abstract

The increase in the political subjectivity of non-state actors, primarily megacities, has long been articulated, but still has not received sufficient understanding. The ongoing processes of urbanization and globalization, on the one hand, and the processes of deurbanization and deglobalization, clearly manifested during the pandemic, give rise to many complex tasks of political management that require new approaches both in practice and in the theory of politics. The editorial board presents the current issue of the journal devoted to analysing the problems of the city and the countryside from a political perspective, stating political urban and rural studies as a subdiscipline of political science taking its first steps.

Keywords

• city
• village
• political subjectivity of cities
• city-state
• territorial branding
• urban paradiplomacy
• political mapping
• third space
• multiple heterolocal identities
• rural political science
• peasant studies