‘Vorkuta is the Capital of the World’: People, Place and the Everyday Production of the Local
This article considers the relationship between people and place in the everyday production of the local. Based on empirical research with young people in Russia's far north it offers an empirically substantiated argument that processes of deterritorialization do not necessarily imply the disem...
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crsagepubl:10.1111/j.1467-954x.2012.02073.x 2024-06-23T07:57:24+00:00 ‘Vorkuta is the Capital of the World’: People, Place and the Everyday Production of the Local Pilkington, Hilary 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2012.02073.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1467-954X.2012.02073.x http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02073.x http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02073.x en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license The Sociological Review volume 60, issue 2, page 267-291 ISSN 0038-0261 1467-954X journal-article 2012 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2012.02073.x 2024-06-11T04:32:54Z This article considers the relationship between people and place in the everyday production of the local. Based on empirical research with young people in Russia's far north it offers an empirically substantiated argument that processes of deterritorialization do not necessarily imply the disembedding of people from either the national or the local. Drawing on discursive psychological approaches to the construction of nationhood, the article demonstrates how national and local patriotisms are produced through a post-Soviet project of nationalism and an active programme of flagging the city by the city administration. Through an exploration of the everyday manifestation and articulation of ties between people and place, however, it also suggests some of the limitations to theories of the everyday discursive production of nationhood. Connections to place, it is argued, are not only unconscious or linguistic expressions of discursively produced subjects, but emotional and sensual responses to the material (urban space, nature, climate) and symbolic (hymns, flags, historical narratives) environment. This suggests the need to conceptualize place as a site of the active production and enactment of subjectivity, which is itself not only the product of language and discourse but of experience, affect and ‘matter’. Article in Journal/Newspaper Vorkuta SAGE Publications The Sociological Review 60 2 267 291 |
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This article considers the relationship between people and place in the everyday production of the local. Based on empirical research with young people in Russia's far north it offers an empirically substantiated argument that processes of deterritorialization do not necessarily imply the disembedding of people from either the national or the local. Drawing on discursive psychological approaches to the construction of nationhood, the article demonstrates how national and local patriotisms are produced through a post-Soviet project of nationalism and an active programme of flagging the city by the city administration. Through an exploration of the everyday manifestation and articulation of ties between people and place, however, it also suggests some of the limitations to theories of the everyday discursive production of nationhood. Connections to place, it is argued, are not only unconscious or linguistic expressions of discursively produced subjects, but emotional and sensual responses to the material (urban space, nature, climate) and symbolic (hymns, flags, historical narratives) environment. This suggests the need to conceptualize place as a site of the active production and enactment of subjectivity, which is itself not only the product of language and discourse but of experience, affect and ‘matter’. |
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