The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the formation and structure of symbolic non-material resources at the local level. The object of the study was eight rural areas of four municipalities of the Krasnodar Territory. Symbolic politics as a component of identity politics is a powerful institutional resource of local authorities. It can be used to consolidate the inhabitants of rural areas, their involvement in project activities, mobilization to solve socio-political problems. The purpose of this study is to determine the resource potential of symbolic politics in the structure of the identity policy of local territories in the Krasnodar Territory. The problematic field of this work is determined by the dynamics characteristic of the identity policy of the region under study - the Krasnodar Territory. In the municipalities of this region, different activities of the main political actors shaping the identity policy at the local level are demonstrated. The article describes the criterion matrix for the classification of symbolic politics, which includes the dominant marker of symbolic politics, the temporal orientation of local residents and the subjective involvement by categories of residents, and also describes the functions of the symbolic policy of rural areas. This model forms a comprehensive understanding of the main actors and institutional mechanisms for constructing symbolic politics in the context of the heterogeneity of the region at the local level.

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the formation and structure of symbolic non-material resources at the local level. The object of the study was eight rural areas of four municipalities of the Krasnodar Territory. Symbolic politics as a component of identity politics is a powerful institutional resource of local authorities. It can be used to consolidate the inhabitants of rural areas, their involvement in project activities, mobilization to solve socio-political problems. The purpose of this study is to determine the resource potential of symbolic politics in the structure of the identity policy of local territories in the Krasnodar Territory. The problematic field of this work is determined by the dynamics characteristic of the identity policy of the region under study - the Krasnodar Territory. In the municipalities of this region, different activities of the main political actors shaping the identity policy at the local level are demonstrated. The article describes the criterion matrix for the classification of symbolic politics, which includes the dominant marker of symbolic politics, the temporal orientation of local residents and the subjective involvement by categories of residents, and also describes the functions of the symbolic policy of rural areas. This model forms a comprehensive understanding of the main actors and institutional mechanisms for constructing symbolic politics in the context of the heterogeneity of the region at the local level.