О.В. Змеева, И.А. Разумова.
Герои – виновники – жертвы: проблематизация смерти и захоронения в случае коллективной гибели людей
// Труды КарНЦ РАН. No 4. Серия Гуманитарные исследования. Вып. 4. 2013. C. 113-123
O.V. Zmeyeva, I.A. Razumova. Heroes – perpetrators – victims: the problematization of the death and burial in the case of collective death // Transactions of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Science. No 4. Humanitarian studies. Vol. 4. 2013. Pp. 113-123
Keywords: status of death, collective death, burial, mono-industrial community, group of risk, case study.
The article is based on a case study. It concerns the collective death of workers at a mine in the Town of Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, in 2008. Some questions related to the status of death are considered, and the division of the dead into heroes, perpetrators or victims is discussed. The case reveals some pressing problems of life and social well-being of people in Northern mono-industrial communities.