Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond

Philipp Schröder is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His teaching and research focuses on urban spaces and mobilities, identities and integration, youth cultures and political economies in Central Asia, Russia and China.

• Introduction: Urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia and beyond: an introduction Philipp Schröder 1. The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe’s bazaars Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Abdullah Mirzoev 2. Where the whole city meets: youth, gender and consumerism in the social space of the MEGA shopping mall in Aktobe, western Kazakhstan Philipp Frank Jäger 3. The ignoble savage in urban YerevanSusanne Fehlings 4. Avoidance and appropriation in Bishkek: dealing with time, space and urbanity in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Philipp Schröder 5.Experiencing liminality: housing, renting and informal tenants in Astana Kishimjan Osmonova 6. ‘Only by learning how to live together differently can we live together at all’: readability and legibility of Central Asian migrants’ presence in urban Russia Emil Nasritdinov 7. Assemblages of mobility: the marshrutkas of Central Asia Wladimir Sgibnev and Andrey Vozyanov 8. Prayer house or cultural centre? Restoring a mosque in post-socialist Armenia Tsypylma Darieva