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Paper short abstract:

This presentation summarises outcomes of the author's studies of performative cultures, determining the interactions between extractive (coal minng) companies and local groups of indigenous peoples in Kemerovo region of Russia (co-called 'Kuzbass') obtained in the fieldworks of 2017 - 2019.

Paper long abstract:

The paper considers the issues of performative cultures and practices that exist in the discursive space of every-day interaction between extractive corporations from the one hand, as well as the local communities being under the pressure of subsoil resources extraction - from another. On the basis of long-standing observation of how such an interaction is affected in many aspects by the grounded cultural patterns, symbols, self-determinating issues, and corresponding practices primordially immanent for both interacted collective actors, the author's analyzing all of these in conection to the concept of performative culture and its role in the discourses of issues of nonrenewable resources extraction, and resource rent distribution. There the key author's findings demonstrate that the great part of local interactions in the regions of exstensive subsoil resources extraction among the extractive companies and locals are performatively determined by different cultures of these two collective actors. Thus, the communities of resource miners are exactly intend to operate in accordance with the cultural pattern of extractivism and have in mind correspondent ethics, norms, etc based on the values of classic industrial society. Anytime such values, behaviors, and norms come into the contradiction with the traditional ethic and norms of indigenous communities, and this is often the ground for social conflicts emerging.

The second of the concepts used in this research is the actor-network theory in that its part connected with characterizing the intergroup communication in terms of a specific knowledge co-production, and conjugation of local communities and extractive corporations lifeworlds.