In:
Central Asian Affairs, Brill Deutschland GmbH, Vol. 4, No. 2 ( 2017-04-14), p. 129-145
Kurzfassung:
This article examines practices of (re-)claiming in Bishkek through the prism of “multitemporal fieldwork.” Focusing on the young male residents of a Soviet-era neighborhood, I trace their ways of performing belonging in a rapidly changing urban environment. Most significantly, these men’s coming of age has been accompanied by a gradual detachment from their exclusive focus on a neighborhood community that locally used to be known as Shanghai. Already during our first encounter in 2007, the primary territorial orientation for these residents’ social identification and integration had shifted: it then addressed the larger unit of the whole city, where the claim of “being an urbanite” was made by referring to the neighborhood’s administrative name, Iug-2. My most recent observations document not only how “married life” further disconnected these young men from the 2013 neighborhood realities, but also that a multitemporal perspective allows to (re-)contextualize various claims on Bishkek diachronically.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2214-2282
,
2214-2290
DOI:
10.1163/22142290-00402002
Sprache:
Unbekannt
Verlag:
Brill Deutschland GmbH
Publikationsdatum:
2017
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