ABSTRACT

The city of Moscow has been going through a transformation of its surface transport network during the past decade as part of a broader policy of urban beautification. Despite a renewed interest in public transport, this policy has led to the dismantling of the trolleybus system. This was met with resistance from various groups. Bringing together scholarly discussions on urban growth coalitions and on degrowth, we repoliticise urban mobility policies and put the entangled issues of ecological sustainability and social justice at the centre of the analysis. To do this, we outline a degrowth vision of urban mobility and introduce the concept of ecosocial justice, through which the case is analysed. Our results show that the trolleybus dismantlement increases biophysical throughput, compromises Moscow’s ecology of culture, and is rooted in injustices, not least because Moscow authorities have ignored the many objections and alternative proposals put forward by residents. However, opposition groups paid limited attention to procedural injustices and to the configuration of Moscow’s political economy. This was a limitation of the campaign, but suggests possibilities for repoliticising urban mobility policies at other sites of resistance.

摘要

作为更广泛的城市美化政策的一部分，莫斯科市在过去十年中一直在对其地面交通网络进行改造。尽管人们对公共交通重新产生了兴趣，但这项政策导致了无轨电车系统的拆除。这遭到了来自不同团体的抵制。我们将关于城市增长联盟和去增长的学术讨论汇集在一起​​，将城市交通政策重新政治化，并将生态可持续性和社会正义等纠缠不清的问题置于分析的中心。为此，我们概述了城市流动性的退化愿景，并引入了生态社会正义的概念，并通过该概念对案例进行了分析。我们的研究结果表明，无轨电车拆除增加了生物物理吞吐量，损害了莫斯科的文化生态，并植根于不公正，尤其是因为莫斯科当局忽视了居民提出的许多反对意见和替代建议。然而，反对派团体对程序不公正和莫斯科政治经济结构的关注有限。这是该运动的一个局限，但暗示了在其他抵抗地点将城市交通政策重新政治化的可能性。