Ethnicity in Urban Space: Representation Practices and Research Approaches to Studying the Topic

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The article examines research experience in the representation of ethnicity in urban environments, analyzing the work of Russian and international scholars on the topic. It identifies and characterizes the main forms and methods of demonstrating ethnic culture, explores the role of representational practices in shaping the sociocultural space of the city, and outlines the principal areas of research. The material is analyzed in terms of its thematic focus, subject area, and the methodological approaches employed by the researchers. The results demonstrate that the representation of ethnicity is linked to the formation of an ethnic image (“one's own”, “the Other”). The subject of the research encompasses the methods of ethnicization of urban space as a symbolic and functional “appropriation” of the urban environment; the means of representation expressed in textual, visual, and material forms; and the role of ethnic communities and the national-cultural public organizations representing them in this process. Technologies for representing and preserving ethnic culture, understood as a set of methods and tools for its preservation — including through its construction — involve practices such as staging public events (“staging ethnicity”), urban design, and the symbolic development of space in the creation of ethnically marked community canteens and retail outlets.

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