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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Scraps, Neighbors, and Committees: Material Things, Place‐Making, and the State in anAstana Apartment Block
Beteiligte:
LASZCZKOWSKI, MATEUSZ
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2015
Erschienen in:
City & Society, 27 (2015) 2, Seite 136-159
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/ciso.12057
ISSN:
0893-0465;
1548-744X
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AbstractDrawing on fieldwork in 2008–09, this article focuses on a courtyard (dvor) in aSoviet‐era apartment block inAstana,Kazakhstan. I explore the mundane material maintenance of the courtyard, in particular the use of scraps, as a way to reflect on the relationships between material agency, the formation of locality, and the state. Historically, the courtyard was an urban form through which the Soviet state sought to define its citizenry. In the post‐Soviet period the dvor persists as a space in which citizens' subjectivities and relationships to the state are formed. However, infrastructures fall into disrepair and are haphazardly patched up by residents. I argue that scraps play important roles in the emergence of localities, both enabling and constraining residents' agency. They engender a sense of disconnect between the local community and the state. Simultaneously, scrappiness also means that locality is unstable and ephemeral. Scraps, in general, are an underappreciated element of urbanization; yet they are significant actants in the making and unmaking of social and political configurations.