Устойчивость в нарративах креативной молодежи Северного Кавказа на примере Пятигорска и Нальчика

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2026. Т. 194. № 4. С. 96–120.

Бемлер Е. С., Хмельницкая Я. Е.

The article presents a study of resil­ience strategies of creative youth in the North Caucasus using the example of Pyatigorsk and Nalchik. The theoretical framework of the study combines a processual understanding of re­silience with an interpretation of locality as a subjectively constructed connection to place, allowing for an analysis of the resilience of cre­ative youth in relation to the spatial context of small towns, where locality serves not as a constraint but as a resource. The empirical base of the study consists of 20 interviews with creative youth aged 18–35. An analysis of the narratives revealed that resilience is not a stat­ic characteristic, but a dynamic process con­structed through the interaction of individual strategies and the local context. The authors identify four key types of resilience narratives: as a return to the pre­crisis state; as social in­tegration; as controlled uncertainty ("safe un­certainty"); and as a lack of stability as a char­acteristic of modernity. Resilience is realized through the following models: individualistic (reliance on internal resources), networked (social connections and networks), hybrid (com­bining creative and non­creative employment), and local (embeddedness in cultural heritage and the urban environment). The main finding of the study is the close relationship between resilience, creativity, and locality. Despite struc­tural limitations (underdeveloped infrastruc­ture, lack of support), creative young people find resources for self­realization and the de­velopment of their cities by consciously choos­ing a strategy of embeddedness.

Keywords: устойчивость, Северный Кавказ, North Caucasus, укорененность, локальность, locality, resilience, creative youth, rootedness, resilience strategies, креативная молодежь, стратегии устойчивости