"The power of local communities": practices, mechanisms and models of resident’s participation in sociocultural development of territories (on the materials of small towns and villages in the Vologda Region)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artyom Chernega
Keyword(s):  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Vologda Region ◽  
Sociocultural Development

scholarly journals Forms of local media relations in local communities — case studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Sylwia Męcfal
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Complex Relationships

The local media market in Poland developed in very particular social conditions, conditions which Nowak 1979, 1981 described as a “social void”. As a result, it might be presumed that it was more likely that the new forms of society including local media were formed on the basis of the “bonding” type of social capital rather than the “bridging” type. Th is might be one of the reasons why tight and complex relationships between the local media and other social actors still exist. On the basis of my own qualitative research case studies conducted in four small towns in Poland, this article shows how complex the local relations are and describes the involvement of local journalists and local media owners in these networks of relations which might often be a cause of conflicts of interest individual or institutional or media bias. 

scholarly journals A SPATIAL SEMIOTICS OF ANCIENT URBAN AREAS AS A RESOURCE FOR SOCIOCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF A REGION AT THE EXAMPLE OF THE VOLOGDA REGION

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
С.С. Касаткина
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Vologda Region ◽  
Sociocultural Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mental Space

В статье предложен дискурс определения понятия «древний город», введено авторское значение понятия «семиотическое пространство древнего города», рассмотрены семиокоды города как элементы урбосферы. В исследовании применены историко-культурный, визуально-семиотический методы, обоснован системно-семиотический подход изучения древнего города, связанный с пониманием трех элементов урбосферы: концепта (историческое значение древнего города), структуры (социальная жизнь горожан) и субстрата (физическое и ментальное пространство — городской ландшафт). Основу данной публикации составил анализ субстратных значений древнего города как ресурса его развития, основанный на изучении семиотических пространств городов Вологодской области. Выявлено, что историческая память города, его материальный и ментальный ландшафт и уникальный визуальный образ являются ключевыми семиокодами древних поселений, на основе которых возможно эффективное конструирование социокультурного развития любого региона страны. Автор предлагает перспективные направления работы с пространством старинных городов России на примере внимания к семиотическому пространству городов Вологодской области, способствующие активному социокультурному развитию их территорий. The article defines the concept of “ancient urban areas” and comments on the author’s perception of spatial semiotics of ancient settlements. It also treats urban semiotic conventions as elements of urban space. The research employs historical-cultural, visual-semiotic and systemic-semiotic approaches in order to investigate such elements of urban space as concepts (history of ancient urban areas), structures (urban dwellers’ social life), and substrates (physical and mental space, urban landscape). The article analyzes the substrate of ancient settlements as a resource for sociocultural development based on the investigation of spatial semiotics of urban areas of the Vologda Region. The article maintains that the historical memory of an urban area, its material and mental landscape, its unique visual image are key semiotic conventions which may be used to efficiently promote sociocultural development of a region. The author speaks about some promising avenues for processing the spatial semiotics of ancient Russian settlements promoting their sociocultural development.

scholarly journals Low carbon urban development in Serbia: Challenges and opportunities on the local level

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Milica Bajic-Brkovic ◽  
Visnja Sretovic ◽  
Matija Brkovic
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Legal Constraints

Development of low carbon urban environment stands among the highest priorities countries, cities and regions are faced with. Despite all the efforts, initiatives and concrete actions taken on the international, regional and national level, many countries experience very low or almost insignificant change on a local level. The situation in Serbia resembles these widely recognized dynamics. While on one hand, the responsible ministries and governmental bodies in Serbia have made a visible progress in meeting the challenge of developing low carbon environment over the past decade, it is a fact that actions on a local level aimed at redirecting the current trends and introducing a more responsible development into their cities and towns are very rare and rather sporadically taken. This paper focuses on a local level, and is concerned with the specific challenges and opportunities recognized there. The medium and small towns in Serbia are of primary interest, since their potential for change is least developed and recognized. The paper explores the challenges they deal with, namely, the perceptive, institutional, and legal constraints and goes on to investigate how these constraints could be overcome, or reduced. On the other hand, there are some opportunities that local communities have on hand. The paper takes to the light their strengths, and presents how they could be integrated into the development processes, and employed in order to further empower local communities in making their towns and places more carbon sensitive.

scholarly journals Oral history of the “silent majority”. From the experience of field research in Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 224-230
Author(s):  
A. T. Sabirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Silent Majority ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
History Of

This article examines the experience of Uzbek historians in conducting oral history research. According to the author, the experience of oral history in Uzbekistan is still insufficient, but it has good prospects, since a community of scientists and representatives of related sciences in oral history has already been formed. This direction is developing both in social and academic aspects. At the same time, a number of problems in the development of the new method were noted, such as the fragmentation of research, weak methodological base, lack of interaction between researchers. The process of institutionalizing the collection and analysis of oral recollections on the basis of specific projects and international cooperation is shown in stages. Methods of research, which were accompanied by field and research practice, are described in detail. The article discusses specific methods of field research of local communities (mahalla) and small towns of Uzbekistan. The author notes specific problems of conducting oral-historical research, such as the official discourse in the memoirs of veterans, the observance of ethics in relation to the researcher and the respondent, the problem of language and others.

scholarly journals Level of Social Participation in the Creation of Urban Regeneration Programmes – The Case Study of Small Towns in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Czupich
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social

Social participation enables citizens to take part in the decision-making process. It is an increasingly popular instrument in Poland. The effectiveness of participation is the most important issue in this context. In accordance with the Act of 9 October 2015, urban regeneration mainly applies to mitigating negative social phenomena. The social aspect is also important at the stage of establishing urban regeneration programmes. Extensive social participation in the process of creat­ing these programmes is one of the main requirements. The aim of the article is to present the scale of the involvement of local communities in the procedure of creating regeneration programmes in selected small towns in Poland. Conclusions from the analysis include an assessment of participation success rate in regeneration activities.

scholarly journals Population of Small Towns of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the Context of Socio-Cultural Modernization in the 1920s-1930s

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
M.V. Kholina
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Demographic Processes

On the basis of a wide range of documentary sources, the paper considers the main characteristics and development trends of population in small towns of the 1920s and 1930s located first within the Yenisei Province and then within the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The author reveals the factors which have a significant impact on the socio-demographic portrait of a small Siberian city as a unique and characteristic form of social organization for Russia, developing in the context of economic and sociocultural modernization of the Soviet state. The period of complex transformations witnesses the whole range of social changes and their inherent contradictions to a greater extent. Achinsk, Yeniseisk, Kansk, and Minusinsk social and cultural policy of the 1920s and 1930s developed under the influence of both a number of general factors determined by the specific historical situation in the country and the region, and those factors which determined specific development of the towns under study and features of their social and cultural policy in the Soviet state. These heterogenous and diverse factors produce a significant and irreversible impact on the demographic processes of both local communities and the region as a whole.

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