Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The results of Foresight research, and namely presenting scenarios of the future of the Sakha\n(Yakutia) Republic, its indigenous peoples, are introduced. Both envisaging further development\nand realistic images of the republic’s future, suggested by the experts, are discussed. A field of\nscenarios of the future of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic till 2050 is presented, scenario conditions\nand factors being viewed. A baseline scenario of the formation of multi-structure economies and\nsociety, blending traditional, developed industrial and post-industrial (cognitive) structures,\nis described. Within the frame of a baseline scenario reproduction of the republic’s indigenous\npeoples’ identity, culture and languages will be provided by special cultural policy, cultural and\neducational practices. Scenarios which are alternative to a baseline one are elaborated. These are\n“corporate colonization”, “demographic and cultural dissipation”, “temptation of a consumption\nsociety”, “cultural break-through”. The opportunities of “discovering the North” (analogous to the\n“discovery of the east” in the XX century) for the whole mankind are discussed. The conditions for\nthis might be the following ones: accumulation of the indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage on the\nbasis of use of modern informational technologies; consolidation of northern peoples and shifting\ntheir culture from the level of local ethnic cultures to the level of “northern civilization” of a special\ntype. The North-Eastern Federal University should play its special role of a strategic subject,\norganizing the development and implementation of new cultural, educational, medical practices,\nnecessary cultural policy
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2467663075