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Urban Life in Post Soviet Asia
Author | : Catharine Alexander,Victor Buchli,Caroline Humphrey |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2007-09-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781135392086 |
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Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and Ulan-Ude: four cities with quite different responses to the fall of the Soviet Union. Each chapter takes a theme of central significance across this huge geographical terrain, addresses it through one city and contextualizes it by reference to the other sites in this volume. The structure of the book moves from nostalgia and memories of the Soviet past to examine how current changes are being experienced and imagined through the shifting materialities, temporalities and political economies of urban life. Privatization is giving rise to new social geographies, while ethnic and religious sensibilities are creating emergent networks of sacred sites. But, however much ideologies are changing, cities also provide a constant lived mnemonic of lost configurations of ideology and practice, acting as signposts to bankrupted futures. Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia provides a detailed account of the changing nature of urban life in post-Soviet Asia, clearly elucidating the centrality of these urban transformations to citizens’ understandings of their own socio-economic condition.
Urban Life in Post soviet Central Asia
Author | : ALEXANDER Catherine,BUCHLI Victor,HUMPHREY Caroline |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-08 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1844721663 |
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Dr Catherine Alexander teaches at the Department of Anthropology, GoldsmithsCapturing a unique historical moment, this book analyses Central Asian urban processes both in a comparative framework and a post-Soviet setting - thus addressesing 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.
Urban Life in Post Soviet Asia
Author | : Catharine Alexander,Victor Buchli,Caroline Humphrey |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2007-09-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781135392093 |
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Introduction / Catherine Alexander and Victor Buchli -- Astana : materiality and the city / Victor Buchli -- Almaty : rethinking the public sector / Catherine Alexander -- Tashkent : three capitals, three worlds / Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva -- City of migrants : contemporary Ulan-Ude in the context of Russian migration / Galina Manzanova -- The creation and revitalisation of ethnic, sacred sites in Ulan-Ude since 1990s / A. Hurelbaatar -- The homeless of Ulan-Ude / Irina Baldaeva -- New subjects and situated interdependence : after privatisation in Ulan-Ude / Caroline Humphrey -- Index.
Environment and Post Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan s Aral Sea Region
Author | : William Wheeler |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781800080331 |
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The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea’s retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral’sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.
Post Soviet Central Asia
Author | : International Institute for Asian Studies |
Publsiher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1998-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040057393 |
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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the independent republics of central Asia enjoy a greater degree of autonomy, but are faced with a range of complex social, political and economic problems. This book addresses these problems.
Everyday Life in Central Asia
Author | : Jeff Sahadeo,Russell Zanca |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2007-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780253013538 |
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This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era. For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines examine how ordinary Central Asians lead their lives and navigate shifting historical and political trends. Provocative stories of Turkmen nomads, Afghan villagers, Kazakh scientists, Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik strongman, guardians of religious shrines in Uzbekistan, and other narratives illuminate important issues of gender, religion, power, culture, and wealth. A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region.
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities
Author | : Cordula Gdaniec |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781845458317 |
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Cultural diversity - the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture - is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces. Through its unique exploration of the Russian example, this volume addresses the implications of the fragmented urban landscape on cultural practices and discourses, ethnicity, lifestyles and subcultures, and economic practices, and in doing so provides important insights applicable to a global context.
Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond
Author | : Philipp Schröder |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351723343 |
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This volume contributes new insights to the scientific debate on post-Socialist urbanities. Based on ethnographic research in cities of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia, its contributions scrutinise the social production of diverse public, parochial and private spaces in conjunction with patterns of everyday encounter, identification, consumption and narration. The analyses extend from the transnational entanglements between a Dushanbe bazaar and hyper-modern Dubai to the micro-level hierarchies in a flat-sharing community in Astana. They explore competing notions of urban belonging and aesthetics in Yerevan, local perception of Central Asian Muslims in Kazan and Saint Petersburg, and more, providing a rich tapestry of academic study. Taken together, the case studies address cities as gateways to ‘new worlds’ (both local and global), discuss ambitions of states at taming urban landscapes, and illustrate current trends of economic, religious and other lifestyles in urban Central Asia and beyond. This book was originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.