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The Place of Memory in Understanding Urban Change in Central Asia: The Cities of Bishkek and Ferghana

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  • Moya Flynn
  • Natalya Kosmarskaya
  • Guzel Sabirova

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This article explores the relationship between memory and place in understandings of urban change in Central Asia. Drawing on narratives of long-term residents of two Central Asian cities we investigate the ways in which positive memories of the Soviet past emerge when people speak about the urban environment of today. We explore why such fondness for the Soviet past has emerged, what elements of the past are most cherished, and which urban communities remember these elements. We ask what these forms of memory reveal about what has been lost and what this tells us about the present anxieties of urban residents.

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  • Moya Flynn & Natalya Kosmarskaya & Guzel Sabirova, 2014. "The Place of Memory in Understanding Urban Change in Central Asia: The Cities of Bishkek and Ferghana," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(9), pages 1501-1524, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:66:y:2014:i:9:p:1501-1524
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2014.957926
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    1. Craig Hatcher & Susan Thieme, 2016. "Institutional transition: Internal migration, the propiska, and post-socialist urban change in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(10), pages 2175-2191, August.

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