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

$135.00

Subject: Archaeology / Anthropology

Author: Laszczkowski, Mateusz

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Date Published: 08-2016

ISBN: 1785332562 | EAN: 9781785332562

BasicBinding: Library Binding

Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product | Pages: 220

Annotation:

First ethnographic monograph of Astana;
Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist ('social-constructivist') approaches to place and space in social science;
Critically reading a range of heterogeneous literatures (urban anthropology, geography, political science, area studies, sociology, phenomenology) through the lens of detailed ethnography;
Exploring a diversity of situated perspectives on Astana - juxtaposing the experience of migrants (rural as well as trans-urban), lifelong residents, and planners, across boundaries of ethnicity and class.

First ethnographic monograph of Astana;
Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist ('social-constructivist') approaches to place and space in social science;
Critically reading a range of heterogeneous literatures (urban anthropology, geography, political science, area studies, sociology, phenomenology) through the lens of detailed ethnography;
Exploring a diversity of situated perspectives on Astana - juxtaposing the experience of migrants (rural as well as trans-urban), lifelong residents, and planners, across boundaries of ethnicity and class.