The "resource curse" with a shade of anthracite: indigenous peoples and extractive companies of Kuzbass in a conflict situation

The article presents the author’s approach to understanding the main problem of national resource supply through the prism of choosing the fundamentals and directions that can move the situation from the dead point, highlighting conceptual ideas and placing emphasis on the development of the country’s economy. Assuming the idea of multiplying, increasing the national wealth of the country, the author considers the availability and structure of resources, the correlation of resource use, income generation and distribution. Countries rich in natural resources are perceived and assessed ambiguously, and in this connection the concepts and concepts of the «curse of resources» and «Dutch disease» appeared in science, the importance of which is reduced to the state management of the economy and resources. The ideas of development can be very different. The statesmen need to make a strategic choice between eroding national sovereignty within the framework of deepening integration into a single world civilization, building up the power and dominating the country as an empire, with a hyper-egoistic orientation only to increase the welfare of ruling elites or dynamically improve the quality of life of Russians with the recognition of the value of each individual at the state level. And this task is not only a constitutional guarantee, but an ideological development, a socio-economic ideology and a worldview. The emergence and adoption of a search strategy for the best solution in the allocation, combination of resources and structuring of the economy, in determining an exceptional resource-technological path for the benefit of the country and the people is extremely relevant. The optimistic scenario is related to synergetic processes in the innovation economy, as in space and time transformations take place in the worldview, creativity and activity, in understanding the role of man in the resource environment, in applying new methods and technologies for managing natural and economic resources, taking into account environmental safety and technological development. Depending on the chosen path, idea, development stage, different resources can be involved, but the development goal should be understood clearly, implemented systematically and in a complex manner.

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Coal Region as a Discursive Construct: Meanings of Coal in the Kuzbass Media Routine

Piskunova

2022

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic Sciences

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In the Kemerovo Region, coal is a local socio-cultural construct that receives its substantive content through the local mass media discourse. Social studies of extractivism reveal the deep-rooted and significant impact of resource extraction on the modern society. This research relied on a discourse analysis of media routine and the meanings of coal it specifies. The method of discourse analysis is a phenomenological strategy of socio-cultural description; it clarifies the conceptual content of local media communities and registers the current state of the discursive environment. In the Kuzbass media, coal is an important resource that provides well-being, while coal mining is an extractive practice based on an unfair distribution of benefits and costs. This discourse objectifies the acts of collective signification of regional coal development activities. The economic discourse cultivates the idea of sustainable economic development of Kuzbass, while the ecological discourse defines the understanding of the specific coal-mining ecology. Media routine forms a social field of presence, where the regional community reproduces its collective identity and develops a language to describe the reality in which coal is the intersection point of economics, politics, ecology, and culture.

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The "resource curse" with a shade of anthracite: indigenous peoples and extractive companies of Kuzbass in a conflict situation

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