В Санкт-Петербурге с 12 по 16 сентября прошёл Конгресс Университета Арктики — масштабное мероприятие, впервые организованное сетью UArctic. ЕУСПб в лице программы «Североведение» является членом этой сети с 2012 года. В рамках конгресса прошли деловые встречи по вопросам развития Арктики, а также научная конференция.
В рамках конференции был представлен доклад сотрудников программы «Североведение» Аллы Болотовой, Валерии Васильевой и Анастасии Карасевой. Доклад "Mobility and Sense of Place among Russian Arctic Youth" является плодом работы по проекту «"Дети девяностых" в современной российской Арктике: оценка настоящего и желаемое будущее». Доклад на конгрессе представила Анастасия Карасева.
Аннотация доклада (см. на сайте Конгресса)
In this joint paper we analyse how mobility of youth influences on their sense of place in different parts of the Russian Arctic. The relation between mobility and sense of place has been studied for more than two decades within the globalization framework. In these studies, increasing mobility has been often seen in opposition to people’s belonging to place, diminishing of local connections and bonds (Giddens 1990; Castells 1996; Bauman 2000, Appadurai 2003). Recent studies show the relation being not so straight and mobility having its part in shaping sense of place (e.g. Fallov, Jorgensen, Knudsen 2013, Milbourne 2014).
The Russian Arctic is often described as a remote area hard to access, though the local population here has always been very mobile and transport connectivity differs significantly in various parts of it. In our paper we analyse fieldwork materials from 3 diverse case studies with an aim to show the differences in the ways of how mobility is shaping sense of place for young inhabitants in these regions. Three Russian Arctic regions, namely Murmansk region, Central Kolyma (Magadan region) and Eastern Taimyr, differ in terms of population (urban/rural, polyethnic/monoethnic) and access to transport infrastructure and thus provide good examples for comparing the relation between mobility and sense of place among Russian Arctic youth.