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'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mateusz LaszczkowskiSeries:Integration and Conflict Studies #14Publish date:2018-10-07Pages:220
Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781789200751ISBN-10:178920075XUPC:9781789200751Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, SociologyBook Topic:UrbanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCHADPE315

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city's longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic - allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781789200751ISBN-10:178920075XUPC:9781789200751Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, SociologyBook Topic:UrbanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCHADPE315
Laszczkowski, Mateusz: -

Mateusz Laszczkowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, at the University of Warsaw, Poland. In 2007-2012 he conducted his doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Publisher: Berghahn Books

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