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

Focaal

Volumn , Issue 60, 2011, Pages 77-92

  Laszczkowski, Mateusz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Building; Kazakhstan; Modernization; Utopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862681058     PISSN: 09201297     EISSN: 15585263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2011.600107     Document Type: Article

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