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Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities
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Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities
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Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space—specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national identities in post-socialist successor states across the region, while at the same time the articulation of national identities markedly affected the appearance of these post-socialist cities. Beginning with an overview of socialist and post-socialist cities in recent urban history, contributors trace the post-socialist intertwining of space and identities in case studies that include Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, Chi?in?u and Tiraspol in Moldova, and Skopje in Macedonia, while also linking this phenomenon to socialist urbanism, as in postwar Minsk, Belarus.
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Yes, you can access Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities by Jaroslav Ira, Jirí Janác, Jaroslav Ira,Jirí Janác in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface (Luďa Klusáková)
- Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities (Jiří Janáč - Jaroslav Ira)
- Society and Space in (Post-)Socialist Cities: Directions in Research (Natallia Linitskaya)
- Tractor at the Avenue: Post-War Reconstruction of Minsk, 1944–1960 (Natallia Linitskaya)
- Public Spaces and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan (1991–2001) (Nari Shelekpayev)
- Is Name Destiny? On Some Cases of Post-Soviet Street-Naming in Almaty and Astana (Nari Shelekpayev)
- Skopje 2014: The Role of Government in the Spatial Politics of Collective Memory (Ivana Nikolovska)
- Searching for Identity: the Cities of Tiraspol and Chisinau (Olga Niutenko)
- About the Authors