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Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022) was an American geographer of Chinese origin famous as a founder of humanistic geography. An author of the concept of topophilia that was defined as emotional ties connecting people and their places and thus forming place attachment.
Mitin I., В кн.: Вопросы географии / Русское географическое общество. Сб. 162. Культурная географияВып. 162.: Медиа-ПРЕСС, 2026. С. 155–169.
Three revolutionary changing approaches to cultural landscape are revealed in the Anglo-American academic tradition. The first – classic one – considers cultural landscape as a material natural landscape transformed by human activity. New cultural and humanistic geography give birth to the second approach focusing on immaterial sense, images and meanings by means of which people ...
Added: September 10, 2026
Zhdanov A., Korotayev A., Социология власти 2026 Т. 38 № 2 С. 118–167
Imagining a cosmic future touches on many topics — but typically avoids the topic of death, burial, and attitudes toward deceased ancestors. Most of these developments concern life-support systems. This article analyzes the debate between American anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli and Russian cosmists. The subject of this debate is immortality and attitudes toward ancestors in the ...
Added: June 29, 2026
Omelchenko E. L., Lisovskaya I., Социологические исследования 2026 Т. 2 С. 86–98
The article explores how migration plans of young people in the North Caucasus are shaped by their emotional and symbolic attachment to place. Using the theoretical framework of the “sense of place,” the authors examine how young residents interpret the decision to stay or leave in relation to family ties, cultural norms, and regional identity. ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Chebanova D., Семилетова Л. А., В кн.: Парадоксы локальной идентичности: как молодежь ищет место под солнцем.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2025. Гл. 6 С. 178–228.
Монография подготовлена Институтом прикладных политических исследований НИУ ВШЭ по результатам серии экспедиций на тему «Модели локаль ной идентичности и социально-политические практики молодежи» (2022). В фокусе исследования — молодежь в возрасте от 22 до 35 лет четырех регионов России: Псковской области, Карачаево-Черкесской Республики, Челябинской области и Камчатского края. Дизайн исследования разработан с помощью метода «длинного стола» ...
Added: August 7, 2025
Chebanova D., Eremenko M., Sorokin D., В кн.: Парадоксы локальной идентичности: как молодежь ищет место под солнцем.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2025. Гл. 1 С. 11–40.
This monograph has been prepared by the Institute for Applied Political Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) and is based on a series of field expeditions conducted in 2022 under the project “Models of Local Identity and the Socio-Political Practices of Russian Youth.” The study focuses on young people ...
Added: August 7, 2025
Adams P., Olga A. Lavrenova, Social Semiotics 2022 Vol. 32 No. 5 P. 708–727
Landscape semioticscanbeexploredbyfocusingonVladimir
Lenin, whoselikenessoncegracedmorethan14,000toponyms,
museums, statuesandmonuments.DuringtheSovietperiod,
Lenin monumentsreflected asymboliclanguagelinking
communist powerandideologytoparticularsculptural
characteristics. After1991,thesignificance ofLeninstatuestook
multiple pathsofevolutioninwhatLotmanwouldcall
“explosion.” Depending onthegeographicalandpoliticalcontext,
Lenin’s statuestookondifferent sortsof “afterlife.” They were
variously: (a) preserved and left inplace to symbolizethe
legitimacy ofpost-Sovietelites,(b) taken forgranted but permitted
to deteriorate, (c) removed, relocated or destroyed to indicatethe
end ofSovietoccupation,and(d) captured and reworked for use
in placepromotionandcapitalistmarketing.Thesevarious
semiotic trajectoriesdemonstrateaLotmanian “explosion,”
evident inthepost-SovietlandscapesofRussia,theformerSoviet
Republics, andtheWest. ...
Added: June 21, 2025
Olga Lavrenova, Shima 2022 Vol. 16 No. 2 P. 62–82
This article analyzes ethnic and linguistic world picture of the peoples of Russia with the aim of revealing the most representative mythologemes connected with the swamp and defining their meaning and place in the cultural landscape. Swamps are dangerous areas for humans, and at the same time they are also a source of food and ...
Added: June 21, 2025
Лавренова О. А., Эпистемология и философия науки 2021 Т. 58 № 1 С. 178–196
The culture beeing in the geographical space is one of the important
problem fields of ontology. The process of understanding
the environment has many levels and characteristics. Culture is
an universal object of semiotics, in this case it is considered as
a subject of the semioticization of geographical space, the formation
of the image of the world. Culture inherits and ...
Added: June 21, 2025
Лавренова О. А., Springer, 2019.
The introduction raises the problem of relationships between culture and
space, here we prove the usage of semiotic concept of the culture as a basic concept
of the research. That part of semiosphere, were the characters are the geographical
locations and their respective names as well as names of water objects, is denoted as
the goal of the study. ...
Added: June 21, 2025
Dokhov R., В кн.: Родоман: Сборник статей и воспоминаний.: Издательские решения, 2024.
Статья посвящена исследованию возможности применения позиционной редукции для выделения и описания позициональных вариантов производства знания и отношений между ними. ...
Added: September 2, 2024
Бабурина Е. А., Mitin I., Mikhaylov A. et al., Городские исследования и практики 2024 Т. 9 № 1 С. 34–54
Local identity of Basmanny district in Moscow is studies in the article. It is understood through the multiplicity of interconnected unique images of this urban territory. Taken together they create the mechanism of self-identification of local residents with their signified and conceived place.
The central location of Basmanny and its historical environment paradoxically raise the question ...
Added: May 30, 2024
Pereyaslavtsev D., Городские исследования и практики 2023 Т. 7 № 4 С. 68–86
This paper explores the effects place image has on the place identity of residents of Sviblovo district in Moscow protesting the renovation program. Sviblovo was chosen as an example because of the abundant protests against Moscow’s renovation project from 2017 to this day. The main methodology used is the semantic analysis of social network and ...
Added: April 30, 2024