What Capital Cities Say About State and Nation Building

Schatz, Edward

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“…The Soviet‐era city‐center was also renewed, even if renewal did not reach far off the main thoroughfares. The development of the new capital became the pivot of Kazakhstan's state‐ and nation‐building ideologies (Anacker ; Koch ; Laszczkowski ; Schatz ; Wolfel ).…”

Section: Urbanism In the Ussr And Aftermentioning

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“…The Soviet-era city-center was also renewed, even if renewal did not reach far off the main thoroughfares. The development of the new capital became the pivot of Kazakhstan's state-and nation-building ideologies (Anacker 2004;Koch 2010;Laszczkowski 2014;Schatz 2004;Wolfel 2002). However, as Buchli (2007) points out, the creation of the new capital evoked profound public questions as to the forms and values of social life.…”

Section: For Sovietmentioning

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Scraps, Neighbors, and Committees: Material Things, Place‐Making, and the State in anAstana Apartment Block

Laszczkowski

2015

City & Society

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Drawing on fieldwork in 2008–09, this article focuses on a courtyard (dvor) in a Soviet‐era apartment block in Astana, Kazakhstan. I explore the mundane material maintenance of the courtyard, in particular the use of scraps, as a way to reflect on the relationships between material agency, the formation of locality, and the state. Historically, the courtyard was an urban form through which the Soviet state sought to define its citizenry. In the post‐Soviet period the dvor persists as a space in which citizens' subjectivities and relationships to the state are formed. However, infrastructures fall into disrepair and are haphazardly patched up by residents. I argue that scraps play important roles in the emergence of localities, both enabling and constraining residents' agency. They engender a sense of disconnect between the local community and the state. Simultaneously, scrappiness also means that locality is unstable and ephemeral. Scraps, in general, are an underappreciated element of urbanization; yet they are significant actants in the making and unmaking of social and political configurations.

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Section: Urbanism In the Ussr And Aftermentioning

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Scraps, Neighbors, and Committees: Material Things, Place‐Making, and the State in anAstana Apartment Block

Laszczkowski

2015

City & Society

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“…In the cases of Myanmar 3 and Kazakhstan there is no convincing state-sponsored explanation for recent capital shifts out of major urban areas. However, in both cases, the threat of urban uprisings is a plausible explanation (Schatz, 2004). 4 Similarly, government officials in Iran have recently suggested that it may become necessary to move the government out of Tehran because of fears of earthquakes.…”

Section: Capital Location and Civil Conflictmentioning

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“…Similarly, Canada (Ottawa) and Australia (Canberra) located their capitals in remote areas of their respective nations ostensibly for development purposes. However, in both cases the initial impetus was the increasing rivalry between the large cites of Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and Sydney and Melbourne in Australia (Schatz, 2004).…”

Section: Capital Location and Civil Conflictmentioning

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Locating the government: Capital cities and civil conflict

Potter¹

2017

Research & Politics

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The location of the national capital is frequently contentious in domestic politics. Almost 30% of countries house their capitals outside of their largest city and 11 countries have relocated their capitals since 1960. This paper argues that locating the capital outside of the largest urban center may reduce civil conflict by limiting the ability of any single faction to dominate the government. When the government is less afraid of large urban populations in the capital, it is better able to appease multiple factions. Cross-national evidence supports this argument in that locating the capital outside of a major city is associated with a significant reduction in both violent and non-violent civil conflict.

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“…As with other newly-constructed capital cities, Astana was built in a defensible location 57 , as part of a larger nation-building project to solidify Kazakhstan's unity and independence. 58 In a city designed as a "showpiece of Kazakh culture and identity" 59 , the National Academic Library hosts singers, artists, and scholars as well as celebrations of national festivals such as the spring Nauruz holiday, celebrations which serve to reinforce Kazakhstan's ethnic heritage and intercultural unity through the venue of food and clothing (see Figure 3).…”

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“I Fell into Librarianship”: Experiences of Post-Soviet Librarians at the National Academic Library in Astana, Kazakhstan

Emmelhainz

Bukhtoyarova

2016

Slavic & East European Information Resources

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What Capital Cities Say About State and Nation Building

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Scraps, Neighbors, and Committees: Material Things, Place‐Making, and the State in anAstana Apartment Block

Scraps, Neighbors, and Committees: Material Things, Place‐Making, and the State in anAstana Apartment Block

Locating the government: Capital cities and civil conflict

“I Fell into Librarianship”: Experiences of Post-Soviet Librarians at the National Academic Library in Astana, Kazakhstan

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