Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities : : The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era / / ed. by Cordula Gdaniec.

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 c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Space and Place ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (196 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Cultural Diversity between Staging and the Everyday
  • Chapter 2. Is Chinese Space ‘Chinese?’
  • Chapter 3. Constructions of the ‘Other’
  • Chapter 4. Reshaping Living Space Concepts of Home Represented by Women Migrants Working in St. Petersburg
  • Chapter 5. African Communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg
  • Chapter 6. The Construction of ‘Marginality’ and ‘Normality’
  • Chapter 7. ‘You Know What Kind of Place Th is Is, Don’t You?’
  • Chapter 8. Begging as Economic Practice
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index