Madeleine Reeves is an RCUK Research Fellow in Conflict Cohesion and Change at the University of Manchester. She teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology and is a member of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change.

This book explores the politics of place-making in Central Asia, past and present. Case studies draw on historical and ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of sedentarization, collectivization and resettlement throughout this vast region, as well as their incorporation into local systems of meaning and place-making.

It was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.

1. Introduction: contested trajectories and a dynamic approach to place Madeleine Reeves Incomplete Spatialization 2. Friendship under lock and key: the Soviet Central Asian border, 1918-34 Charles Shaw 3. Humans as territory: forced resettlement and the making of Soviet Tajikistan, 1920-38 Botakoz Kassymbekova 4. Settlement promoted, settlement contested: the Shcherbina Expedition of 1896-1903 Ian W. Campbell 5. Vanguard of 'socialist colonization'? The Krasnyi Vostok expedition of 1920 Robert Argenbright Doing Place 6. Settling descent: place making and genealogy in Talas, Kyrgyzstan Judith Beyer 7. Claiming an ancestral homeland: Kazakh pilgrimage and migration in Inner Asia Eva-Marie Dubuisson and Anna Genina 8. Moving metaphors we live by: water and flow in the social sciences and around hydroelectric dams in Kyrgyzstan Jeanne Féaux de la Croix 9. The accidental traders: marginalization and opportunity from the southern republics to late Soviet Moscow Jeff Sahadeo 10. Leaving to enable others to remain: remittances and new moral economies of migration in southern Kyrgyzstan Eliza Isabaeva 11. Staying put? Towards a relational politics of mobility at a time of migration Madeleine Reeves