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City Image in the Structure of Social Ideas About the Russian North (Exemplified by Arkhangelsk). P. 112–120

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Section: Philosophy

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[114+130.2]:008

DOI

10.17238/issn2227-6564.2019.6.112

Authors

Anna N. Solov’eva
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov; prosp. Lomonosova 2, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3666-8590 e-mail: annasolov@mail.ru
Tat’yana A. Solov’eva
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov; prosp. Leningradskiy 40, Arkhangelsk, 163009, Russian Federation;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0592-6713 e-mail: t.solovjeva@narfu.ru

Abstract

This article describes the image of the northern city based on social ideas of Russians about the northern space. The authors use the term city image to identify universal ideas about the urban space that are formed at the level of public consciousness of the residents under the influence of their cultural experience and the city’s social structure. The city image also includes differences in the perception of urban environment due to the residents’ group or individual characteristics as well as reflects the symbolic structure, semantic core and the periphery of the meanings of urban space created by the city dwellers in the process of interpreting the experience of urban life and distinguishing between significant and neutral features of the environment. In a pilot research, we empirically tested the hypothesis that the symbolic core of the residents’ ideas about the northern city reflects their social identity that had been formed in the cultural and historical context of the Russian North. Further, an assumption was tested that the differences in the interpretation of the northern urban space are determined by the current sociocultural situation and variability of the social roles of the residents. As a result, data were obtained that respondents associate the northern city with the categories Kin – Nature – Home – Memory, which form the semantic core of ideas about the North. City-dwellers of different ages with different experience in urban life indicate a universal meaning of the northern city when they characterize it as a “living environment”, “nature and climate”, a “cultural and historical context”, and a “space for self-fulfilment”. Conflicting views in the interpretation of urban space arise when residents assess the transformation of culture, economy, and ecology of the post-Soviet North of Russia. The archaic attributes of the northern city named by the respondents reflect the understanding of its space as a “native land” and render the nostalgic feelings of “devotion” to the area. At the same time, city dwellers tend to rationalize the negative environmental challenges of the North that can impede the fulfilment of their personal and professional needs.

Keywords

social representations, Russian North, Arkhangelsk, city image, northern identity
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