
'City of the Future'
Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
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First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social science; Critically reading a range of heterogeneous literatures (urban anthropology, geography, political science, area studies, sociology, phenomenology) through the lens of detailed ethnography; Exploring a diversity of situated perspectives on Astana – juxtaposing the experience of migrants (rural as...
First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social science; Critically reading a range of heterogeneous literatures (urban anthropology, geography, political science, area studies, sociology, phenomenology) through the lens of detailed ethnography; Exploring a diversity of situated perspectives on Astana – juxtaposing the experience of migrants (rural as well as trans-urban), lifelong residents, and planners, across boundaries of ethnicity and class.