On Top of the City: Youth Culture and Urban Resistance on the Rooftops of St Petersburg

Author:   Dr Abigail Karas (University of St Andrews, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350512856


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 June 2026
Format:   Hardback
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On Top of the City: Youth Culture and Urban Resistance on the Rooftops of St Petersburg


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Author:   Dr Abigail Karas (University of St Andrews, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781350512856


ISBN 10:   1350512850
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Text Map of St Petersburg Exploring the Rooftops Chapter 1. St Petersburg’s Panorama: from Pushkin to Pantsir Chapter 2. Rooftop Exploration: From the Aristocracy to Aristokrat Chapter 3. Roofing as Spatial Critique: Reclaiming Space, Resisting Control Chapter 4: Russia’s Risk Society: From the Sublime to Azart Chapter 5: The Roofer-Explorer: Masculinity and Mastery over the Built Environment On Top of the City Bibliography Index

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The book contributes perspectives on St Petersburg that has not be covered in depth before, and the interpretations of the roofers, the roofs, and in extension larger portions of Russian culture, are convincing and well argued. Urban cultural geography at its best! * Thomas Borén, Stockholm University, Sweden *


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Abigail Karas is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK. An anthropologist and historian of the built environment, with a particular interest in (post-)Soviet cityscapes, she holds a DPhil in Russian from the University of Oxford. She previously taught at the University of Nottingham, at Liverpool John Moores University and at University College London, UK.

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