1st Edition
Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond
Edited By Philipp Schröder
Copyright 2017
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume contributes new insights to the scientific debate on post-Socialist urbanities. Based on ethnographic research in cities of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia, its contributions scrutinise the social production of diverse public, parochial and private spaces in conjunction with patterns of everyday encounter, identification, consumption and narration. The analyses extend from the... Read more
Introduction
Urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia and beyond: an introduction
Philipp Schröder
Articles
- The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe’s bazaars
Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Abdullah Mirzoev - 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 - The ignoble savage in urban Yerevan
Susanne Fehlings - Avoidance and appropriation in Bishkek: dealing with time, space and urbanity in Kyrgyzstan’s capital
Philipp Schröder - Experiencing liminality: housing, renting and informal tenants in Astana
Kishimjan Osmonova - ‘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 - Assemblages of mobility: the marshrutkas of Central Asia
Wladimir Sgibnev and Andrey Vozyanov - Prayer house or cultural centre? Restoring a mosque in post-socialist Armenia
Tsypylma Darieva
Biography
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.
