Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Dynamics of Residents’ Identity in the Krasnoyarsk Territory Settlements as a Basis For the Region’s Brand

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Dynamics of Residents’ Identity in the Krasnoyarsk Territory Settlements as a Basis For the Region’s Brand (2010-2014)

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (4)
Authors: Nemirovsky, Valentin G.
Contact information: Nemirovsky, Valentin G.: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail: valnemirov@mail.ru
Keywords: region’s brand; self-identity in settlements; social and cultural identity; modernization
Abstract: Processes of modernization and new industrialization of the country in the current financial and economic crisis are regionally differentiated. Absolute priority in these processes is given to regions with clearly marked and attractive brand. This brand is largely dependent on the settlement selfidentity of the region’s residents, and their emotional perception concerning the region’s territory. Strictly speaking, the population can act both as a subject of the region branding and its object. In this paper, the region’s residents are considered to be the branding subject. Therefore, the analysis of regional (settlement) self-identity for the population and concomitant factors plays an important role for the formation of the region’s brand. The paper is based on the materials of representative study of the population of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, conducted in 2010, 2012 and 2014. The author examines the dynamics of the region’s settlement self-identity and the correspondent changes in the region’s brand. It was concluded that in the past five years, largely due to the strengthening of the regional settlement self-identity of the region’s inhabitants, the brand of the Krasnoyarsk Territory became less amorphous and more polarized. In addition it was found that respondents with stronger complementary settlement self-identity tend to evaluate some aspects of the region’s brand as positive, while the residents with weaker or absent settlement self-identification treat the same aspects as negative. In the end, strengthening of the region’s brand and the positive elements’ intensification help the economic, social and cultural region’s competitiveness in the modern world
Pages: 809-817
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16778

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