ABSTRACT
The conception of the transnational circuit of culture provides a model for an analysis of cultural and social practices in the community. It also permits an analysis of the cultural production of identity as part of a broader social process. To a certain extent, the notion of the circuit of culture constitutes the meta-structure of this chapter which follow the demonstrate of how the social and cultural identities of Russian Greeks are produced, regulated, consumed and represented within the transnational circuit. Identity is produced through agent's practices within the circuit of meaning which constitutes the cultural process. In the conditions of the interconnected world of globalisation, the locality of identities is challenged by the transnational movement of people, goods and ideas which de-territorialises cultural production. Nonetheless, globalisation does not lead to cultural homogenisation, but rather results in a new range of cultural identities, which are constituted within a complex interplay between transnational agency and the institutionalised structures of the nation-state.
