Neoliberalism as space fragmentation: A Lefebvrian gaze at post-socialist urban transitions
本文借助列斐伏尔理论，通过住宅空间碎片化（住房治理、公共空间封闭、审美分化）的实证研究，揭示新自由主义如何作为隐藏意识形态在后社会主义城市中内化于日常生活。
Urban studies have recently seen the emergence of perspectives that question the applicability of neoliberalism to the experiences of post-socialist states. This article offers conceptual clarifications in this regard. The work of Henri Lefebvre helps explicate the role of ‘the urban’ in making neoliberalism a ‘hidden ideology’ governing everyday consciousness and subjectivities. This argument is illustrated by a study of residential space fragmentation, empirically addressed through three themes: (a) housing governance fragmentation, (b) enclosure of common spaces and (c) aesthetic differentiation of residential space and the spatialisation of class. The study demonstrates how the integrated system of urban welfare infrastructure built in the Soviet city has been fragmented, enclosed and repurposed in order to be compliant with commodification, privatism and insulative particularism. The spatial fragmentation is argued to be an active practice that helps internalise the neoliberal ‘common sense’ in everyday life.