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'city of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana: 14 (Integration and Conflict Studies, 14)

'city of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana: 14 (Integration and Conflict Studies, 14)

by Mateusz Laszczkowski (Author)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 220
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 01 Sep 2018
ISBN 10: 178920075X
ISBN 13: 9781789200751

Media Reviews
Drawing upon the case of Astana, which remains unfamiliar to many scholars, this book makes a valuable contribution to the study of urban transformation and power in the post-Soviet countries and beyond. Despite the city representing an example of phenomena often too broad in scale to be empirically analysed, having numerous inter-subjective and experiential qualities, the book skilfully carves out the multiplicity and complexity of time- and space-making relationships. Furthermore, it introduces numerous new perspectives that should be elaborated upon by future research. Europe-Asia Studies
Author Bio
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.