Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Stage That Does Not Exist: Irkutsk Open Market as a Dramaturgical Metaphor

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (11)
Authors
Timoshkin, Dmitriy O.
Contact information
Timoshkin, Dmitriy O.: Irkutsk State University 1 Karl Marx Str., Irkutsk, 664003, Russia; National Research Tomsk State University 34, Lenina, Tomsk, 634050, Russia;
Keywords
open market; dramaturgical metaphor; urban narrative; informal networks
Abstract

The article deals with the representation practice of Irkutsk open clothes market in urban narratives. The concepts of social roles performed in the market space and markers, indicating its boundaries, are analysed in the article. Referred in the narratives nonspatial market borders, which are characterized by the changes in the role model and ideas about the permissible, are considered in the article. The purpose of the article is to show the market from the position of several groups acting in its context. The theoretical framework of the article is E. Goffman’s dramaturgical metaphor and W. Benjamin’s approach to the description of urban localities. Based on this empirical material the article hypothesizes several ways of urban space representation in dialogues, depending on each person’s role. Practice, that all respondents mention despite their group membership, becomes the actual content of locality. In the case of Irkutsk open market this practice is informal earnings

Pages
1776-1791
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/109127

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