Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond

Herausgeber: Schröder, Philipp

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book assembles original ethnographic research into urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia. Taken together, the case studies address cities as gateways to 'new worlds', both local and global, discuss ambitions of states at taming urban landscapes, and illustrate current trends of economic, religious and other lifestyles in urban Central Asia and beyond. This book was originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138743199
• ISBN-10: 1138743194
• Artikelnr.: 57056898

Autorenporträt

Philipp Schröder is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His teaching and research focuses on urban spaces and mobilities, identities and integration, youth cultures and political economies in Central Asia, Russia and China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia and beyond: an
introduction
Philipp Schröder
1. The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism
of Dushanbe's bazaars
Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Abdullah Mirzoev
2. Where the whole city meets: youth, gender and consumerism in the social
space of the MEGA shopping mall in Aktobe, western Kazakhstan
Philipp Frank Jäger
3. The ignoble savage in urban Yerevan
Susanne Fehlings
4. Avoidance and appropriation in Bishkek: dealing with time, space and
urbanity in Kyrgyzstan's capital
Philipp Schröder
5.Experiencing liminality: housing, renting and informal tenants in Astana
Kishimjan Osmonova
6. 'Only by learning how to live together differently can we live together
at all': readability and legibility of Central Asian migrants' presence in
urban Russia
Emil Nasritdinov
7. Assemblages of mobility: the marshrutkas of Central Asia
Wladimir Sgibnev and Andrey Vozyanov
8. Prayer house or cultural centre? Restoring a mosque in post-socialist
Armenia
Tsypylma Darieva