SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE

The article is devoted to the understanding of the Kuzbass media space. It forms a discursive environment defined by the dynamics of meanings, images, symbols that focus on the contextual interpretation of coal as a resource. The aim is to identify the mechanisms and contents of positioning processe...

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Main Author: Alexandra E. Piskunova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University 2022-06-01
Series:Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум
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Online Access:https://jwt.su/journal/article/view/1154/1148
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description The article is devoted to the understanding of the Kuzbass media space. It forms a discursive environment defined by the dynamics of meanings, images, symbols that focus on the contextual interpretation of coal as a resource. The aim is to identify the mechanisms and contents of positioning processes in the regional media environment as discursive phenomena. Methodology: discursive approach to the analysis of the «coal region» media field. The focus is on how coal mining is discussed, what is said, who is speaking and who is absent from the media discourse. Results. The analysis of media facts made it possible to identify various actors in the community formed by the regional model of coal extractivism. Within the media field, they are involved in the communicative practices of contesting and (re)producing intersubjective semantic reality. On the one hand, it is a discursive coalition of the government and mining companies that mask the injustice and violence inherent in the logic of resource extractivism with the rhetoric of coal as a «common good». On the other hand, there are the voices of «experts» who make judgments about the ecological, economic and social conditions of the region, indigenous peoples and local communities directly affected by the impact of coal mining, and the «majority» voice, which fluctuates between different positions due to political and economic loyalty and dependence on the coal industry. It is noted that special discursive effects, power dispositions and cultural plots are deeply embedded in the socio-cultural reality of Kuzbass, in which coal, as a specific regional symbolic substance, exists as a source of meaning generation.
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spelling doaj.art-f5ecd8e17a7943e7bc7cdc06bcff94032022-12-22T04:29:32ZengNational Research Tomsk Polytechnic UniversityВекторы благополучия: экономика и социум2658-49562022-06-01452304010.18799/26584956/2022/2/1154SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCEAlexandra E. Piskunova0Kemerovo State UniversityThe article is devoted to the understanding of the Kuzbass media space. It forms a discursive environment defined by the dynamics of meanings, images, symbols that focus on the contextual interpretation of coal as a resource. The aim is to identify the mechanisms and contents of positioning processes in the regional media environment as discursive phenomena. Methodology: discursive approach to the analysis of the «coal region» media field. The focus is on how coal mining is discussed, what is said, who is speaking and who is absent from the media discourse. Results. The analysis of media facts made it possible to identify various actors in the community formed by the regional model of coal extractivism. Within the media field, they are involved in the communicative practices of contesting and (re)producing intersubjective semantic reality. On the one hand, it is a discursive coalition of the government and mining companies that mask the injustice and violence inherent in the logic of resource extractivism with the rhetoric of coal as a «common good». On the other hand, there are the voices of «experts» who make judgments about the ecological, economic and social conditions of the region, indigenous peoples and local communities directly affected by the impact of coal mining, and the «majority» voice, which fluctuates between different positions due to political and economic loyalty and dependence on the coal industry. It is noted that special discursive effects, power dispositions and cultural plots are deeply embedded in the socio-cultural reality of Kuzbass, in which coal, as a specific regional symbolic substance, exists as a source of meaning generation.https://jwt.su/journal/article/view/1154/1148coalextractivismmediadiscoursepositioningcoal regionkuzbass
spellingShingle Alexandra E. Piskunova
SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE
Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум
coal
extractivism
media
discourse
positioning
coal region
kuzbass
title SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE
title_full SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE
title_fullStr SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE
title_full_unstemmed SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE
title_short SUBJECTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DISCURSIVE ARENA OF THE «COAL REGION»: KUZBASS MEDIA DAILY OCCURRENCE
title_sort subjects and positions in the discursive arena of the coal region kuzbass media daily occurrence
topic coal
extractivism
media
discourse
positioning
coal region
kuzbass
url https://jwt.su/journal/article/view/1154/1148
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