Bordering on the modern: Power, practice and exclusion in Astana

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 432-443

  Koch, Natalie ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bordering; Capital city; Kazakhstan; Modernity; Practice turn; Urbanism

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL CITY; ELITE POLITICS; MODERNITY; PLANNING PRACTICE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS; URBANIZATION;

ASTANA; KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84902013686     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12031     Document Type: Article

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