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Nedoseka E.V., Sharova E.N., Lizova V.A. Specific entry: Northern and Arctic Societies AnnotationThe aim of this article is to provide a substantive definition of the sense of place among the residents of Norilsk, who constitute an urban working community. The term “working community” is used to refer to the residents of an industrial single-industry town, united by a shared mental conceptualization of those with whom they live, work, communicate, share common values, for whom professional and corporate identities are dominant and determine the nature and directions of the urban community’s sustainability. The theoretical framework of the study is based on the principles of social constructivism, which views social identities as multiple discursive constructs of the modern globalized world, in which the loss of place and ties to communities are consequences of the ongoing changes. As the main concept for identifying the characteristics of the local, we chose “sense of place”, which arises as a result of interaction with the environment and is meaningfully reflected in its interpretation by residents. The methodological basis of the work was the method of qualitative text analysis, specifically narrative analysis. At the empirical level, a detailed description of subjective perception of the city of Norilsk was carried out on the basis of a) text messages, posts and comments to them for 20212024 (the total number of posts was 4,511, of which 110 posts with the number of comments exceeding 50 were selected); b) individual in-depth interviews (18 people, employees of the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant named after B. V. Kolesnikov; the Talnakh Concentrator; the Komsomolskiy Mine). The analysis allowed us to identify the main dominants of the “sense of place” among Norilsk residents as an urban working community: ambivalent emotional attachment to the city; perception of Norilsk as a “place not for everyone” and as a city of an industrial corporation with a special professional profile — heavy labor professions.About authors
Elena V. Nedoseka, Cand. Sci. (Soc.), Associate Professor, Senior Researcher
Ekaterina N. Sharova, Cand. Sci. (Soc.), Associate Professor
Veronika A. Lizova, Student Keywordsurban working communities, sense of place, Norilsk, Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF), public discourse, online communityUDC316.334.56(985)(045)This work is licensed under a CC BY-SA License. |
