Building the future: Construction, temporality, and politics in Astana

被引:24
作者
Laszczkowski, Mateusz [1 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst, Social Anthropol, Halle, Germany
关键词
building; Kazakhstan; modernization; utopia;
D O I
10.3167/fcl.2011.600107
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
This article focuses ethnographically on the built environment of the so-called "Left Bank" area in Astana, Kazakhstan. Previously merely a provincial administrative center, the city became the country's capital in 1997; soon a new quarter of monumental, futuristic, and stylistically extravagant administrative, residential, and commercial buildings emerged. I argue that the construction effort produces complicity by mobilizing and channeling citizens' agency. Against the background of recent history, it offers a sense of restored progress-directed collectivity within which individual citizens can seek to engage, pursuing more meaningful and materially satisfying lives. A selective vision of the city is propagandized widely, producing a hyperreal space that captures imaginations, set in opposition to more "ordinary" social space. The contrast between that vision and the lived realities of Astana causes disillusionment, but emic criticism of the political economy fails to transcend the logic of modernization narratives that the ideology of Astana's construction rests upon.
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页码:77 / 92
页数:16
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