Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities The Urban Landscape in the Post-Soviet Era

Name: Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities The Urban Landscape in the Post-Soviet Era
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ISBN: 9780857458131

ISBN-10: 0857458132

ISBN-13: 9780857458131

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cordula Gdaniec

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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces.…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.96" wide x 9.00" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Cordula Gdaniec currently works at the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst in a project on cultures of remembrance. From 2003-2008, she was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Humboldt University in Berlin, involved in the project "Urban culture and ethnic representation Berlin and Moscow as emerging world cities?" at the Department of European Ethnology.