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«КАЛИНИНГРАДСКИЙ ТЕКСТ» КАК РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ
"KALININGRAD TEXT" AS REPRESENTATION OF REGIONAL IDENTITY

Author(s): L.M. Gavrilina
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Environmental Geography, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Social development, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Environmental interactions
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: self-identity; identity; identity crisis; regional identity; local text; super-text; communication;

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses local texts as a representation of the regional identity and as a form and the method of its creation. During the two recent decades there has been a real boom of local texts which became a reaction vis-à-vis the existing identity crisis. This is the way for local communities to establish “the local order against background of a global chaos” in the context of the “liquid modernity” (Z. Bauman), by trying to make its space more meaningful through constructing special features of their locus. The author of the article defines the phenomenon of the “Kaliningrad text” as a “local super-text” that has emerged as a manifestation of the Kaliningrad sub-culture and representation of a regional identity. The article emphasizes structural characteristics of the “Kaliningrad super-text”, its key themes and tunes, the stages of its genesis and trends of its development.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 88-99
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian