ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Driving from the airport towards the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan will carry the passenger past the new EXPO building with its permanent exhibition on Kazakhstan’s bright future of smart green energy while in the distance the skyscraper silhouette of the ultra-modern city centre is clouded in smog. In Kazakhstan as elsewhere in Central Asia, the future of the country’s industrial heritage polarises the public. In the 20th century, Central Asia was transformed into a hub of rapid industrialisation but mining and industrial towns experienced a critical time with collapsing industries and infrastructure during the 1990s. This not only left people economically vulnerable but touched at the very…
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