Self-Organization of Youth Culture in the Situation of Contestation of the Urban Space (the Case of Skateboarders of the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg)

Student: Iatcenko Kseniia

Supervisor: Svyatoslav Polyakov

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This work is devoted to the study of the self-organization of the skateboard community of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg in the situation of challenging the public space. The aim of the work was to study the features of skater self-organization in the situation of challenging space in the city. The study performs such tasks as the identification of existing concepts relating to situations of challenging the space in the city by population groups; the concept of group self-organization is defined; the analysis of group of skaters is made; specific cases of existing cases of self-organization are highlighted; preconditions that led to cases of self-organization

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