Urban spaces after socialism : ethnographies of public places in Eurasian cities
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Urban spaces after socialism : ethnographies of public places in Eurasian cities
（Eigene und fremde Welten : representations of patterns of social order, v. 22）
Campus, c2011
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Papers originally presented at workshops held at Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 2009 and at the Dept. of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin in 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery. "Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space in the region's cities. Presenting case studies from Tashkent, Yerevan, Gumri, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Baku, and Osh, the book examines the way that different groups, from Christians and Muslims to ardent reformers and Soviet apologists, assign meaning to public spaces and deploy them in attempts to construct - and even control - the way the history of their cities is understood.
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