Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond motivational strategy rather than a static container

rather than a static container for the events of our lives

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—Greg Heichelbech

Dillon reminds us that interdisciplinary

Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond motivational strategy rather than a static containerThis volume contributes new insights to the scientific debate on post Socialist urbanities. Based on ethnographic research in cities of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Russia, its contributions scrutinise the social production of diverse public, parochial and private spaces in conjunction with patterns of everyday encounter, identification, consumption and narration. The analyses extend from the transnational entanglements between a Dushanbe bazaar and