Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Alexander, Catharine; Humphrey, Caroline; Buchli, Victor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Capturing 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135392086
• Artikelnr.: 38250342

Autorenporträt

Catherine Alexander is Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has carried out fieldwork in Turkey, Britain and Kazakhstan, and has published on domestic space and cities. Most of her research has been engaged with changing relationships between state, society and market including privatisation, property relations and welfare and the third sector. Victor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. His research interests focus on the material culture of socialism and post-socialism, modernist architecture and urbanism in Russia and Kazakhstan, the archaeology of the recent past, and theoretical understandings of material culture and materiality. Caroline Humphrey is Professor of Collaborative Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked extensively in Russia, Mongolia, and North-West China, and also more briefly in Nepal and India. She has published on economic change, ritual and religion, and her current interests concern socialist/post-socialist urban cultures in China and Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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 Humphrey