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Bozhok N.S. [Cultural and historical reenactment in the optics of an immersive approach: theoretical and empirical explications (Part 1)] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 4. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/60KLSK421.pdf (in Russian).

Cultural and historical reenactment in the optics of an immersive approach: theoretical and empirical explications (Part 1)

Bozhok Nikolay Sergeevich
Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Saratov, Russia
E-mail: nikolaybozhok@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-1669
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=785713

Abstract. The article, consisting of two plots, attempts for the first time to carry out theoretical and empirical explications of the immersive approach and to create a new research optics for a deeper study of the specifics of commemorative practices of cultural and historical reenactment as a non-academic form of interaction with the past. The first part of the study contains a statement of the question and an overview of the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of immersion as a phenomenon of modern culture. The genesis, methodology and specifics of disciplinary modifications of the immersive approach, the content characteristics of its basic categories are revealed. The prevailing attention is paid to conceptual ideas that have been developed in art history, cultural studies and pedagogical research. Revealing the heuristic potential of the immersive approach, the author asks questions: can the categories «immersion» and «immersiveness» serve as an adequate tool for describing and analyzing reenactment practices of immersion in the past. In the second part of the article, based on the analysis of reenactment studies, it is shown how these concepts work in the discourse of cultural and historical reenactment. Summarizing and analyzing significant empirical material, the author reveals the specifics of the immersion of reenactors in the recreated cultural and historical reality. It is proved that the typologically immersive experience of reenactors is an extremely multifaceted phenomenon. The degree of immersion is determined by motivation, cognitive activity and the level of memorial culture of the reenactor. Based on the typology of experience proposed by Pine and Gilmore, four types of immersion in immersive practices of cultural and historical reenactment are considered — entertainment (play), escapism, aesthetics, and education. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusions: the concept of immersion in cultural and historical reenactment is broader than in cultural industries, pedagogy and museology. It can include not only bodily-affective immersion in the past, but also the construction of immersive practices that correspond to the tasks of historical cognition, observation, research, evoking a sense of empathy. In a situation of deep immersion in the past, this experience becomes more complicated, moves to a new level of interaction with cultural and historical artifacts — the level of historical experiment.

Keywords: cultural and historical reenactment; immersive approach; immersion; immersiveness; immersion into the past; immersion types; commemorative immersion

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