'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-075-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laszczkowski, Mateusz

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction: Pathways into the ‘City of the Future’

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Astana, Kazakhstan and the Global Lives of Modernist Urbanism

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Anthropology’s Space

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Space and Time

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Theorizing the City Anthropologically

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Fieldwork in the ‘City of the Future’

Chapter 1. Materializing the Future: Images and Practices

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Deconstruction, Reconstruction

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The Cityscape of the Future

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Becoming ‘Contemporary’

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The Roots of Disenchantment, and Its Limits

Chapter 2. Performing Urbanity: Migrants, the City and Collective Identification

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Identities beyond Representation

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Urbanity and Rurality in Kazakhstan

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Migration to Astana

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Migrants’ Stories

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Kumano: A Pioneer Settles Down

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Kirill and Gisele: Love on the Move

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Bakytgul: Caught Up in Deferrals

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Aynura: The Girl Who Played the Accordion

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Madiyar: The Struggling Southerner




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Embodying Identity

Chapter 3. Tselinograd: The Past in the ‘City of the Future’

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Building Tselinograd

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Nostalgia and Spatial Intimacy

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Walking in Tselinograd

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Tselinograd’s Glory

Chapter 4. Celebration and the City: Belonging in Public Space

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What Is Public Space?

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The Setting: City Squares

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Public Holiday Celebrations

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.in Late-Soviet Tselinograd

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.in Astana




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Whose Celebration, Whose City?

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Public Space Reopened

Chapter 5. Fixing the Courtyard: Mundane Place-Making

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Shifting Frameworks

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Material Place-Making in the Dvor

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Digression: Things Make a Difference

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The KSK Takeover

Chapter 6. Playing with the City: ‘Encounter’ in Astana

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What is ‘Encounter’?

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Game Types

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‘Encounter’ as Play

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Play or Politics: Carnival, Stiob and ‘Encounter’

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‘Encounter’s Creativity'

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Creasing Space

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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.