Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / “Other” Spaces of Russian Far Eastern Cities: from Marginality to “Ethnicity” (Khabarovsk City Case)

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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (10)
Authors
Blyakher, Leonid E.; Ustinenko, Maksim A.
Contact information
Blyakher, Leonid E.: Pacific National University Khabarovsk, Russian Federation; ; Ustinenko, Maksim A.: Pacific National University Khabarovsk, Russian Federation;
Keywords
city space; segregation; ethnicization; Russian Far East; struggle for the city; spatial stigma
Abstract

Social segregation, although not as pronounced as in the cases described by the classics of the Chicago School, exists today in the cities of Eastern Russia. It manifests itself in identifying “prestigious” and non-prestigious, stigmatized locations. This factor expresses itself not so much in some kind of “material aspects”, but in stable ideas about “what kind of people live there”, although differences are recorded. Depending on the attribution of status to the community living in the territory, the image of the territory is also constructed. At the same time, a number of territories (urban locations) fall into the “other” category. They are given the status of dysfunctional, dangerous spaces that must be avoided. Despite the fact that no significant differences were found during the observation between “dangerous” and “non-dangerous” areas, the stigma attached to “dangerous” areas maintains its status. In the last decade, the list of negative characteristics (attributed to “non- prestigious, dangerous, etc.” districts) was added the characterization of the area as a habitat of “foreign migrants”. At the same time, the very idea of “migrants” in these locations changes depending on which ethnic groups represent “migrants” in the minds of residents. The article intends to identify and describe such stigmatized, “migrant” locations, analyze the presence/absence of an increased concentration of “migrants” in these locations, analyze mechanisms of attributing ethnicity to space in “urban discourse”, conceptualizing it as a form of “struggle for the city”

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1816–1833
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/154121

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