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OverviewCapturing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catharine Alexander (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK) , Victor Buchli (University College London, UK) , Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Cavendish Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.570kg ISBN: 9781844721153ISBN 10: 1844721159 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 16 August 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction Catherine Alexander and Victor Buchli 2. Astana: Materiality and the City Victor Buchli 3. Almaty: Rethinking the Public Sector Catherine Alexander 4. Tashkent: Three Capitals, Three Worlds Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva 5. City of Migrants: Contemporary Ulan-Ude in the Context of Russian Migration Galina Manzanova 6. The Creation and Revitalisation of Ethnic Sacred Sites in Ulan-Ude since the 1990s A. Hurelbaatar 7. The Homeless of Ulan-Ude Irina Baldaeva 8. New Subjects and Situated Interdependence: After Privatisation in Ulan-Ude Caroline HumphreyReviewsAuthor InformationDr Catherine Alexander teaches at the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Dr Victor Buchli is Reader at the Department of Anthropology at University College London. Professor Caroline Humphrey teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Cambridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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