Formation of the social space of the suburb
In this paper, the topic of the formation of the social space of the suburbs is considered both as a conceptual subject area of economic sociology and as an object of empirical interdisciplinary research of rural areas and social geography. Guided by the current discussions at the junctions of assembly theory, the construction of locality as a topological perspective of densification of open layers and closing of space with the components of material and symbolic production and critical urban political economy, our analysis demonstrates how socio-technical infrastructure, political mobility and socio-economic relations are spatially aligned, they are maintained and dissolved in fragmented agglomerations. The authors of this paper clarified the modifications of the definition of “rural” as challenging the concept of the urban revolution of the production of space by A. Lefebvre; verified the production of place in terms of phenomenological sociology by A. Appadurai as a center of meanings created by experience; used the methodology of the structural and genetic operationalization of space by P. Bourdieu as the actions of actors - carriers of capital in various social fields. The combination of several approaches provides an integrated interdisciplinary matrix for understanding exactly how interlocal social relations, life worlds, and revealed identities of residents in a new rural microdistrict between a city and a village are interconnected. Taking into account the methodological issues that arise when trying to empirically study such changes, new theoretical schemes are proposed for the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through various types of action. In the particular example of the Tyumen Region, evidence is given that global trends in the isolation of rural areas as a format of peripheral urban development are gaining priority. The results obtained are important and useful because they confirm the hypothesis of the spread of global suburbanization of R. Kayla, which is becoming a more and more widespread and more significant phenomenon in different regions of the world. The authors’ empirical data reinforce the importance of new formats of peripheral urban development; and precisely verified photographs provide independent visual measurements of the formation of the social space of the suburb. All this in general leads to the idea of the usefulness of revising urban social theory in the context of the growth of rural suburbanization.