Urban Spaces after Socialism / Eigene und fremde Welten Bd.22 (PDF)

Contents Acknowledgements................................................................................7 Sights and Signs of Postsocialist Urbanism in Eurasia: An Introduction ....................................................................................9 Tsypylma Darieva and Wolfgang Kaschuba Part I: Contours and Places Grandeur and Decay of the "Soviet Byzantium": Spaces, Peoples and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.......................33 Artyom Kosmarski The Second City as the First City: The Development of Gyumri from an Anthropological Perspective .....57 Gayane Shagoyan Tbilisi in City-Maps: Symbolic Construction of an Urban Landscape...................................81 Madlen Pilz Maiden Tower Goes International? Representing Baku in a Global World ...............................................107 Melanie Krebs Yerevan Sacra: Old and New Sacred Centers in the Urban Space .......131 Levon Abrahamian A "Remarkable Gift" in a Postcolonial City: The Past and Present of the Baku Promenade ...................................153 Tsypylma Darieva Part II: Places and Voices Every City Has the Flea Market it Deserves: The Phenomenon of Urban Flea Markets in St. Petersburg ................181 Oleg Pachenkov Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi between Intelligentsia Culture and Socialist Labor .................207 Zaza Shatirishvili and Paul Manning Between the Center of Jazz and the Capital of Muslim Culture: Insights into Baku's Public and Everyday Life......................227 Sergey Rumyansev and Sevil Huseynova Gay Culture and Public Places in Tbilisi ...........................................247 Shorena Gabunia Thee Exoticism and Eroticism of the City: The "kinto" and his City ...................................................................261 Paul Manning and Zaza Shatirishvili "Nested Globalization" in Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Urban Youth Culture in a "Southern" City........................................283 Stefan B. Kirmse Afterword for Urban

Wolfgang Kaschuba, Prof. Dr., ist Leiter des SFB 640 »Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel« an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Tsypylma Darieva ist Associate Professor of Anthropology an der Tsukaba- Universität, Japan, Melanie Krebs, Dr. des., ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am SFB 640.