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humanitarian practices for the preservation and development of northern
ethnicities.
The project has no analogues in Russia’s cultural policy practices.
Activities:
• arranging comprehensive study and systemic planning of a longterm
future for the indigenous communities of Yakutia; pushing the
foresight boundaries to 40-50 years through the engagement of a
broad range of competent Russian and foreign experts;
• forming a public consensus, creating a broad-based public coalition for
translating the most preferable of scenarios into reality, organizing and
supporting the processes of long-term preservation and reproduction
of Yakutia’s cultures and languages;
• elaborating principles of socio-cultural policy, building strategies and
programmes for the preservation and promotion of Yakutia’s languages
and cultures within the format of strategic partnership between the
government, the business community, and the general public.
Aims and goals:
1. analyzing the problems of reproduction and development of socioanthropological
systems amid global transformations; elaborating a
systemic model for ethnicities’ socio-cultural reproduction processes;
2. studying exterior economic, political and cultural processes that define
the possibilities and prospects for the existence and development of
Yakutia’s indigenous communities in the long term;
3. analyzing the demographic, economic, social and cultural performance
indicators for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); the traditional
economy’s potential; the potential of basic economic sectors;
communities’ demographic and socio-cultural reproduction processes
and institutions supporting that reproduction; cultural processes;
socialization patterns (in adults and children alike); communities’
traditional occupations, culture, language, value systems, mentality
and forms of communication;
4. exploring sensitivities of Yakutia’s indigenous communities, including
their socio-psychological, demographic, cultural, anthropological and
other characteristics, as well as specific features in socio-cultural,
demographic and other processes that are seen as sources of risks and
threats for the preservation and further development of indigenous
cultures and languages;
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