Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. People And Places
3. Bardak: Elements Of Chaos.
4. Networking As A Response To The Chaos
5. Women And Sexualised Strategies: Violence And Stigma
6. Construction Of The Alien: Imagining A Soviet Community
7. Ethnic Tensions
8. Conclusions: Whose Transition?
References
Index

About the Author

Joma Nazpary is a Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology, the University of Manchester. Nazpary was born in Baluchestan, Iran and was a political prisoner in Tehran. He studied in Sweden, 1983-85, gained a BSc in Anthropology, learnt Russian, and completed his PhD in 1998 . He speaks Swedish, English, Russian, Arabic, Baluchi, Farsi and Tadjiki.

Reviews

'Nazpary's brilliant analysis of post-Soviet Kazakhstan reflects the author's deep ethnographic immersion in the everyday life-worlds of those inhabitants of Almaty'
*John Gledhill, Manchester University*

'A wonderfully vivid account of the 'chaos' people see around them in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. An insightful exploration of the ways and means of the dispossessed in an unpredictable world'
*Caroline Humphrey*

'The most important book you can read about Central Asia'
*Jonathan Neale, Bookmarks*