Personal and Ethnic Identity in Representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far North: The Nenets and the Sami

Natalya Flotskaya, Svetlana Bulanova, Maria Ponomareva, Nikolay Flotskiy, Olga Kagan

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Abstract

In the modern multicultural Russian society, the preservation of ethnocultural continuity, the formation of modern-day understanding of history, and the integration of ethnic and civic identities in the Indigenous peoples of the Far North and the Arctic, which are currently characterized by the intensification of ethnic processes, are becoming increasingly relevant. When describing the contemporary Russian North, we should note that it is characterized by highly contradictory processes, which combine both the integration of the Indigenous population and newcomers and the separation of different ethnic groups. Trying to understand this highly contradictory situation, we have conducted an empirical study of ethnic and personal identity in adolescents, as described below. Within the study, we have focused on the Nenets and the Sami communities as representative of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far North.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Polar Sciences
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages113-124
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameSpringer Polar Sciences
ISSN (Print)2510-0475
ISSN (Electronic)2510-0483

Keywords

  • Adolescents
  • Identity development
  • Indigenous communities
  • Nenets
  • Sami

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Environmental Science (miscellaneous)

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