Table of Contents

1. Introduction Catherine Alexander and Victor Buchli 2. Astana: Materiality and the City Victor Buchli 3. Almaty: Rethinking the Public Sector Catherine Alexander 4. Tashkent: Three Capitals, Three Worlds Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva 5. City of Migrants: Contemporary Ulan-Ude in the Context of Russian Migration Galina Manzanova 6. The Creation and Revitalisation of Ethnic Sacred Sites in Ulan-Ude since the 1990s A. Hurelbaatar 7. The Homeless of Ulan-Ude Irina Baldaeva 8. New Subjects and Situated Interdependence: After Privatisation in Ulan-Ude Caroline Humphrey

About the Author

Dr Catherine Alexander teaches at the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Dr Victor Buchli is Reader at the Department of Anthropology at University College London. Professor Caroline Humphrey teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Cambridge.