1st Edition
Civic Activism in Authoritarian Space Urban Development Interventions in Kazakhstan
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Kazakhstan’s Exploding Third Sector: The Rise of Homegrown Civic Leadership
CHAPTER 2: Planning Cities to Rule States: Staking Claims to Place and Process
CHAPTER 3: Green Space Preservation in the Shadow of Spectacle: Activism in Development in Astana
CHAPTER 4: Scaffolding Democratic Processes in Urban Development: Emerging Urban Political Participation in Almaty
CHAPTER 5: Manifest Urbanity: Planning Urban Dreamscapes in Southern Kazakhstan
CHAPTER 6: Civic Interventions in City Planning: Political Participation Reconsidered
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
Biography
Sara O’Connor is the Associate Director of the Geo-SpACE Lab with California State University, Long Beach, and a Lecturer in the Department of Geography.






