The Research Center for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The Research Center for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is designed for an interdisciplinary study of the processes of «alienation» (marginalization) of cultural values, events, meanings, as well as the phenomenon of cultural borderland, as a meeting place and the interaction of different cultural traditions. Besides the analysis of modern mechanisms of repression and neglect of cultural experience, material of historical, philosophical, literary and artistic studies is used.