Authorities' priorities and citizens' experience through the lens of multiscalarity: the case of Kuldiga (Latvia) | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2016. № 4. DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/14/14

Authorities' priorities and citizens' experience through the lens of multiscalarity: the case of Kuldiga (Latvia)

The article focuses on the case of the small Latvian town of Kuldiga. It considers how life in this historically significant town is embedded into the political and economic processes unfolding on a scale that far exceeds the town limits. The author summarizes her fieldwork in this town conducted in the summer of 2015, in the course of which she identified a contradiction between the authorities' hope to attract tourists and the ongoing out-migration from the town.

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постсоциалистическое городское развитие, туризм, миграция, Латвия, наследие, небольшой город, post-socialist urban development, tourism, migration, Latvia, heritage, small

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Trubina Elena G.	Ural Federal University n.a. the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin	elena.trubina@gmail.com

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