Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367218669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Philipp Schroder

Opis

This book assembles original ethnographic research into urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia. Taken together, the case studies address cities as gateways to ‘new worlds’, both local and global, discuss ambitions of states at taming urban landscapes, and illustrate current trends of economic, religious and other li

O autorze

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.