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The notion “capital” is not necessarily connected with politics. Sometimes a non-metropolitan city becomes so significant in its partial semantic field that it turns into a “partial capital“.
Elena Grigoryeva, Konstantin Lidin
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Africa’s Capital Cities: Tourism Research in Search of Capitalness [PDF]
Although African cities are significant tourism destinations scholarship on African tourism is rural biased. This paper centres on one aspect of the neglected urban tourism research agenda of Africa, namely the state of tourism research in Africa’s ...
Christian M. Rogerson, Jayne M. Rogerson
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In this article the concept of capitalness as a component of spatial identity is observed on the example of small towns Kasimov and Myshkin. The author analyses, why the concept of capitalness has not got full development while in Myshkin it has been ...
M. I. Tislenko
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New Impetuses to the Development of an Old Concept about North-Western ‘Capitalness’ of Russia
The article concerns the functional development of the term ‘capitalness’ in the mind of the citizens of Old Ladoga. The author pays a particular attention on the modern way of ‘capitalness’ developing due to an official discourse.
N. I. Eryashev
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Old Ladoga: An ‘Imagined’ Russian Capital
The article is focused on the explanation of the term ‘capital’ in the framework of post-modernism and the development of the concept ‘capitalness’ on the example of Ladoga. The author analyses the elements of ‘capitalness’ of Ladoga and make conclusions
D. V. Basova
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Spatial Interpretation: Spatial Configuration of Old Ladoga
This paper considers the way of investigation of stolicnost’ (capitalness) phenomenon on the ground of analysis of entity’s spatial position by forming schemes of spatial patterns (configurations) (by the S.V. Rogachyov’s method).
G. I. Ostapenko
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The article concerns comparative analysis of the spread of the term ‘capitalness’ in two small Russian towns.
B. A. Barabash
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Capital as a Center of State-building: Historical Memory about ‘Capitalness’ in Kasimov
The article concerns functional elements of “capital” at the example of the Russian provincial town – Kasimov and seeks to explain the influence of the muth about “capitalness” on the construction of a nation.
S. O. Savin
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“Provincialism”, “Indigenity”, and Factors of Intellectual “Capitalness” in Social Perception [PDF]
“Provincial”, “indigenous” and “capital” sciences (according to terms used by M. Sokolov and K. Titaev) are compared with each other in terms of their audibility to the world’s scientific community and their intellectual mobility.
Nikolai S. Rozov
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Deconstruction of a Myth about ‘Capitaleness’: A Case of a Town Called Myshkin
Capital represents the most typical institutional body that determines the functions of a political center separating it from a “periphery” a historical memory of the previous “capitalness” has an impact on people’s identity even when a state has ...
E. S. Okuneva
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