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Negotiating Housing Maintenance Reform in Kazakhstan: Soviet-Built Housing in Aktau

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This essay focuses on the place of Soviet-built mass-housing microdistricts and ordinary practices of maintenance in urban politics. The housing maintenance sector in Kazakhstan has undergone major changes following a reform implemented in 2020. The Aktau case helps to unpack how this reform has triggered a renegotiation of Soviet maintenance practices, revealing the underlying dissonance between the government-led approach and the discourse of ‘responsibilisation’ that arose after independence, when public housing was privatised. The line between supporters and critics of the reform is the border between Soviet-built housing and new estates, whose different materialities require, it is argued, different approaches.

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  • Daria Volkova, 2025. "Negotiating Housing Maintenance Reform in Kazakhstan: Soviet-Built Housing in Aktau," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 77(7), pages 1203-1227, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:77:y:2025:i:7:p:1203-1227
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2025.2542564
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