Del 14 - Integration and Conflict Studies

'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Mateusz Laszczkowski

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Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city's longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic - allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-25
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt467 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIntegration and Conflict Studies
Antal sidor220
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785332562

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List of Maps, Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction: Pathways into the 'City of the Future'Chapter 1. Materializing the Future: Images and PracticesChapter 2. Performing Urbanity: Migrants, the City and Collective IdentificationChapter 3. Tselinograd: The Past in the 'City of the Future'Chapter 4. Celebration and the City: Belonging in Public SpaceChapter 5. Fixing the Courtyard: Mundane Place-MakingChapter 6. Playing with the City: 'Encounter' in AstanaConclusionReferencesIndex

"This book truly epitomizes twenty-first century scholarship in the social sciences. From this standpoint, despite its primary focus on a Central Asian society, it can be considered a useful reference for Europeanists in the broader sense, especially those involved in post-communist studies. As a matter of fact, the book was written in English by a Polish researcher, in a German institution, with European funding, drawing on extensive fieldwork in Kazakhstan...[It] opens stimulating debates in many field...The reader is caught in the midst of fascinating stories and compelling arguments. The structure allows us to grasp multiple times, plural spaces, thus numerous modernities." EuropeNow