ISBN:
9781789200751
,
9781785332562
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 205 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
Integration and conflict studies Volume 14
Series Statement:
Integration and conflict studies
DDC:
307.3416095845
Keywords:
Urban renewal
;
Group identity
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Urban renewal
;
Group identity
;
Sociology, Urban
;
Astana (Kazakhstan)
;
Urban renewal ; Kazakhstan ; Astana
;
Group identity ; Kazakhstan ; Astana
;
Sociology, Urban ; Kazakhstan ; Astana
;
Astana (Kazakhstan) ; Social conditions
;
Astana (Kazakhstan) ; Civilization
;
Astana (Kazakhstan) Social conditions
;
Astana (Kazakhstan) Civilization
;
Astana
;
Stadtsanierung
;
Platzgestaltung
;
Öffentlicher Raum
;
Gruppenidentität
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Pathways into the 'City of the Future' -- -- Astana, Kazakhstan and the Global Lives of Modernist Urbanism -- Anthropology's Space -- Space and Time -- Theorizing the City Anthropologically -- Fieldwork in the 'City of the Future' -- -- Chapter 1. Materializing the Future: Images and Practices -- -- Deconstruction, Reconstruction -- The Cityscape of the Future -- Becoming 'Contemporary' -- The Roots of Disenchantment, and Its Limits -- -- Chapter 2. Performing Urbanity: Migrants, the City and Collective Identification -- -- Identities beyond Representation -- Urbanity and Rurality in Kazakhstan -- Migration to Astana -- Migrants' Stories -- -- Kumano: A Pioneer Settles Down -- Kirill and Gisele: Love on the Move -- Bakytgul: Caught Up in Deferrals -- Aynura: The Girl Who Played the Accordion -- Madiyar: The Struggling Southerner -- -- Embodying Identity -- -- Chapter 3. Tselinograd: The Past in the 'City of the Future' -- -- Building Tselinograd -- Nostalgia and Spatial Intimacy -- Walking in Tselinograd -- Tselinograd's Glory -- -- Chapter 4. Celebration and the City: Belonging in Public Space -- -- What Is Public Space? -- The Setting: City Squares -- Public Holiday Celebrations -- -- ...in Late-Soviet Tselinograd -- ...in Astana -- -- Whose Celebration, Whose City? -- Public Space Reopened -- -- Chapter 5. Fixing the Courtyard: Mundane Place-Making -- -- Shifting Frameworks -- Material Place-Making in the Dvor -- Digression: Things Make a Difference -- The KSK Takeover -- -- Chapter 6. Playing with the City: 'Encounter' in Astana -- -- What is 'Encounter'? -- Game Types -- 'Encounter' as Play -- Play or Politics: Carnival, Stiob and 'Encounter' -- 'Encounter's Creativity' -- Creasing Space -- -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
Abstract:
'City of the Future' -- Contents -- Maps, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction Pathways into the 'City of the Future' -- Chapter 1 Materializing the Future -- Chapter 2 Performing Urbanity -- Chapter 3 Tselinograd -- Chapter 4 Celebration and the City -- Chapter 5 Fixing the Courtyard -- Chapter 6 Playing with the City -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
