'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana Contributor(s): Laszczkowski, Mateusz (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785332562 ISBN-13: 9781785332562 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 307.341 |
LCCN: 2016024955 |
Series: Integration and Conflict Studies |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 220 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Laszczkowski, Mateusz: - Mateusz Laszczkowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, at the University of Warsaw, Poland. In 2007-2012 he conducted his doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. |