Sociology on foot and from quadcopter. Rural households and village life in the Near North of Russia (on the example of the Kostroma Region)

Социология по земле пешком и с высоты полета квадрокоптера. Сельские дома и деревенская жизнь Ближнего Севера России (на примере Костромской области)

Baskin, Leonid (Баскин, Леонид) (), Pokrovsky, Nikita (Покровский, Никита) () and Nikolaeva, Uliana (Николаева, Ульяна) ()
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Baskin, Leonid (Баскин, Леонид): Severtsov Insitute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Pokrovsky, Nikita (Покровский, Никита): National Research University Higher School of Economics
Nikolaeva, Uliana (Николаева, Ульяна): National Research University Higher School of Economics

Russian Peasant Studies, 2022, vol. 7, 72-108

Abstract: Rural settlements in the Russian Near North face multidirectional effects, being at the crossroads of natural and environmental zones, economic and household patterns, and modernization challenges. In the market conditions, the relatively low fertility of non-black-earth soils and harsh winters make agricultural production marginally competitive. The steady centripetal migration of rural residents to cities, population outflow, relatively low life expectancy of the working-age population, accelerated demographic aging and, thus, the centrifugal influx of dacha residents from big cities and gradual transformation of lifestyle — these are the main thematic nodes of the study. The authors analyze macro- and micro-trends in rural life through the settlement patterns, material culture, living conditions and economic practices based on the study of the out-of-town settlement locus along the Unzha River between Manturovo and Makariev (Kostroma Region). The traditional methods — observation, survey and analysis of statistical data — were supplemented by the quadcopter footage of the villages. The authors paid special attention to the architectural and planning typology of houses and to the functional structure of rural estates, which objectively reflect the history of villages and rural lifestyle and the contemporary social-cultural evolution of ‘small territories’ under the social transformation of the Near North.

Keywords: Russian Near North; Kostroma Region; rural settlements; depopulation; deurbanization; rural lifestyle; household practices; rural households; architecture of rural households; quadcopter survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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