Urban Life In Post-Soviet Central Asia

Dr. Catherine Alexander teaches at the Department of Anthropology. Capturing a unique historical moment, this book analyses Central Asian urban processes both in a comparative framework and a post-Soviet setting - thus addressing significant lacunae in the literatures on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. As this book shows, people in these cities, so quintessentially Soviet in their contemporary fabric, layout and administration, are negotiating these temporal and spatial legacies in radically distinct ways as they move towards uncertain futures.