| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Integration and conflict studies ; volume 14 |
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Integration and conflict studies ; v. 14.
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| Contents |
List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Pathways into the 'City of the Future' -- Chapter 1. Materializing the Future: Images and Practices -- Chapter 2. Performing Urbanity: Migrants, the City and Collective Identification -- Chapter 3. Tselinograd: The Past in the 'City of the Future' -- Chapter 4. Celebration and the City: Belonging in Public Space -- Chapter 5. Fixing the Courtyard: Mundane Place-Making -- Chapter 6. Playing with the City: 'Encounter' in Astana 153 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Kazakhstan, Astana, Urban Studies, Capital Cities, Post-Soviet, Modernization, Urbanism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2016) |
| Subject |
Urban renewal -- Kazakhstan -- Nur-Sultan
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Group identity -- Kazakhstan -- Nur-Sultan
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Sociology, Urban -- Kazakhstan -- Nur-Sultan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Asian.
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Civilization
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Group identity
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Urban
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Urban renewal
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| SUBJECT |
Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) -- Social conditions
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Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) -- Civilization
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| Subject |
Kazakhstan -- Astana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1785332570 |
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9781785332579 |
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