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The aim of this study is to analyse the production of space in the CouchSurfing hospitality network in Russia. The article proposes the notion of xenotopos, which literally means 'the place of strangers', in order to capture the relational dynamics of host and guest interactions and
their co-present experience of space, time and life rhythms. The article examines the interaction between the spatial knowledge of the host and of the guest in order to see how the sharing of this knowledge affects the spatial trajectory of the guest. The article also considers the potential
applicability of the concept of rhythm in the analysis of CouchSurfing as a spatial practice. The findings suggest that CouchSurfing allows users to open up new spaces of hospitality situated away from conventional tourist circuits by accessing local knowledge and grasping local life rhythms,
both of which become essential intangible aspects of the CouchSurfing experience.

WOS:000275522700004 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science) ; The goal of this article is to analyse the political communication style of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (Dvizheniye Protiv Nelegalnoy Immigrazii – DPNI), which is one of the central nodes in the Russian extreme-right movement web network. In the article, the political communication style of the organisation is investigated at two levels – the presentation of online identity and the presentation of offline identity. Online self-presentation is studied by means of the qualitative analysis of the incoming links (position in the web network) and the internal structure of the website. DPNI is conceptualised as a new type of political organisation based on the networking principle allowing flexible membership and based on the interplay of its online and offline self-presentations. The study provides insights into how the new media become embedded in the political communication of extreme-right political organisations in Russia.

The article explores the case of youth travel in modern Russia. Free-traveling is conceptualized as a spatial practice which is a set of techniques that allows young people to gain access to foreign space and in foreign space. The issue of free-traveling is problematized in the context of spatial dimension of social exclusion of young people — access and its physical, financial and information aspects. The concept of spatial practice is proposed to explain how young people struggle with information, financial and physical limitations of access. Through the analysis of free-traveling the author intends to show how young people in Russia cope with the issue of access.

Introduction – Vision & Verticality: A Visual Sociology of the Sky, Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev -- Section 1. Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Volume and Atmospheres -- 1. Open-weather – The Open-Weather Feminist Handbook: A Preamble -- 2. Of Carnal Gravity: A Three-voice Conversation, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Jean-François Clervoy and Jeanne More -- 3. Seeing in Verticality: From 'Vertical Gaze' to 'Figuring Out', Andrea Pavoni and Andrea Brighenti -- 4. Vertical Visualities, Experiences and Inequalities: A Conversation with Stephen Graham, Gary Bratchford, Dennis Zuev, and Stephen Graham -- Section 2. Sensing, Seeing, and Monitoring from Above -- 5. Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism & Planning, Paul Cureton & Ole Jensen -- 6. Vocabularies of Drone Sensing, Anna Jackman - 7. Viewing from Where? Satellite Imaging and the Politics of Space Technology: Unpacking Depravity's Rainbow, Lewis Bush -- 8. The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future of Aerial Surveillance, Anthony Downey -- Section 3: Assembling and Representing: Artistic Perspectives on Volume, Vertigo and Falling -- 9. Wassily Kandinsky and the Aerial Gaze: Re-considering the Punctual, Linear, and Planar Forces Inherent in the Politics of Visibility of Civil Drones, Francisco Klauser -- 10. After Falling Away: Eeflections on a Vertiginous Art Exhibition, Davide Deriu -- 11. Towards a Typology of Imaginary Skyscrapers, Ana Aragão -- 12. Higher Returns, David Kendall -- Section 4: Mapping Cultural Landscapes, Vertically -- 13. Epistemology of the 'laje' – Notes From Favela Rooftops, Bianca Freire-Medeiros & Leo Name -- 14. Rio's 'Natural Born Monument:' Visual Imaginaries of The Sugarloaf Mountain, Jorge De La Barre -- 15. Elemental Monsters: Using the Wind to Document Protests Against Wind Farms in Tinos, Greece, Adam Fish -- 16. Revitalization and Touristification: the Vertical Cultural Landscape of Dacha Community in Siberia, Artem Yakovlev and Dennis Zuev.