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Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities : The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era / ed. by Cordula Gdaniec.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Space and Place ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857458131
  • 9781845458317
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.800947
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Cultural Diversity between Staging and the Everyday -- Chapter 2. Is Chinese Space ‘Chinese?’ -- Chapter 3. Constructions of the ‘Other’ -- Chapter 4. Reshaping Living Space Concepts of Home Represented by Women Migrants Working in St. Petersburg -- Chapter 5. African Communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg -- Chapter 6. The Construction of ‘Marginality’ and ‘Normality’ -- Chapter 7. ‘You Know What Kind of Place Th is Is, Don’t You?’ -- Chapter 8. Begging as Economic Practice -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces. Through its unique exploration of the Russian example, this volume addresses the implications of the fragmented urban landscape on cultural practices and discourses, ethnicity, lifestyles and subcultures, and economic practices, and in doing so provides important insights applicable to a global context.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Cultural Diversity between Staging and the Everyday -- Chapter 2. Is Chinese Space ‘Chinese?’ -- Chapter 3. Constructions of the ‘Other’ -- Chapter 4. Reshaping Living Space Concepts of Home Represented by Women Migrants Working in St. Petersburg -- Chapter 5. African Communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg -- Chapter 6. The Construction of ‘Marginality’ and ‘Normality’ -- Chapter 7. ‘You Know What Kind of Place Th is Is, Don’t You?’ -- Chapter 8. Begging as Economic Practice -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces. Through its unique exploration of the Russian example, this volume addresses the implications of the fragmented urban landscape on cultural practices and discourses, ethnicity, lifestyles and subcultures, and economic practices, and in doing so provides important insights applicable to a global context.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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