Water infrastructures in Leningrad/St. Petersburg and in Leningrad Oblast in the long twentieth century: Environment and society, expert knowledge and politics

基础设施构成了社会和自然环境，并以多种方式与权力关系和政治统治交织在一起。拟议的项目审查了列宁格勒/圣彼得堡和列宁格勒地区在漫长的二十世纪的水利基础设施(水管和污水系统、水坝和废水处理厂)。围绕这些经常引起激烈争论的基础设施项目及其规划和实现，有关卫生和环境的论述以及关于一般福利的想法都浓缩了下来。从对水利基础设施项目及其冲突的考察出发，技术基础设施和专家知识、社会结构和政治法规的具体星座变得清晰可见。在四个单独项目(德国两个，俄罗斯两个)的基础上，基础设施历史、水资源历史和环境历史的新方法被结合到城市和地区历史中，并首次应用于苏联和后苏联历史。作为一个整体，该项目将揭示(后)社会主义大都市的城市生态、政治和社会，以及环境问题和抗议制度变革的作用。它还将提供与基础设施历史和一般环境历史相关的调查结果。这里的核心问题之一是，通过有争议的基础设施来剥夺统治的合法性。

Infrastructure structures society and natural environments and are intertwined with power relations and political rule in multiple ways. The proposed project examines the water infrastructures of Leningrad/St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region (water pipes and sewage systems, dams and wastewater treatment plants) in the long twentieth century. Around these infrastructure projects and their planning and realization, which were at times heavily contested, discourses on hygiene and environment as well as ideas about the general welfare condensed. Departing from the examination of water infrastructure projects and the conflicts about them, specific constellations of technical infrastructure and expert knowledge, social structures and political regulation become visible.On the basis of four individual projects (two on the German, two on the Russian side) new approaches of infrastructure history, water history and environmental history are combined with urban and regional history and applied to Soviet and post-Soviet history for the first time. The project as a whole will shed light on urban ecology, politics and society in a (post-) socialist metropolis and on the role of environmental issues and protests for the system change. It will also provide findings related to infrastructure history and environmental history in general. One of the central questions here is that of the delegitimation of rule through contested infrastructure.