Urban Spaces after Socialism - Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities; .

Contents

Acknowledgements................................................................................7

Sights and Signs of Postsocialist Urbanism in Eurasia:
An Introduction ....................................................................................9
Tsypylma Darieva and Wolfgang Kaschuba

Part I: Contours and Places

Grandeur and Decay of the "Soviet Byzantium":
Spaces, Peoples and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.......................33
Artyom Kosmarski

The Second City as the First City:
The Development of Gyumri from an Anthropological Perspective .....57
Gayane Shagoyan

Tbilisi in City-Maps:
Symbolic Construction of an Urban Landscape...................................81
Madlen Pilz

Maiden Tower Goes International?
Representing Baku in a Global World ...............................................107
Melanie Krebs

Yerevan Sacra: Old and New Sacred Centers in the Urban Space .......131
Levon Abrahamian

A "Remarkable Gift" in a Postcolonial City:
The Past and Present of the Baku Promenade ...................................153
Tsypylma Darieva

Part II: Places and Voices

Every City Has the Flea Market it Deserves:
The Phenomenon of Urban Flea Markets in St. Petersburg ................181
Oleg Pachenkov

Why are the Dolls Laughing?
Tbilisi between Intelligentsia Culture and Socialist Labor .................207
Zaza Shatirishvili and Paul Manning

Between the Center of Jazz and the Capital of Muslim
Culture: Insights into Baku's Public and Everyday Life......................227
Sergey Rumyansev and Sevil Huseynova

Gay Culture and Public Places in Tbilisi ...........................................247
Shorena Gabunia

Thee Exoticism and Eroticism of the City:
The "kinto" and his City ...................................................................261
Paul Manning and Zaza Shatirishvili

"Nested Globalization" in Osh, Kyrgyzstan:
Urban Youth Culture in a "Southern"

Wolfgang Kaschuba, Prof. Dr., ist Leiter des SFB 640 »Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel« an der Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin, Tsypylma Darieva ist Associate Professor of Anthropology an der Tsukaba- Universität, Japan, Melanie Krebs, Dr. des.,ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am SFB 640.