Globalising homeownership: housing privatisation schemes and the private rental sector in post-socialist Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Hatcher, Craig

doi:10.3828/idpr.2015.30

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“…The Soviet tenancy agreement therefore resembled a property right close to Western versions of private homeownership (Marcuse, 1996). During the privatisation era of the early 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the important property meanings of the propiska crystallised as it served as documentary proof for transferring ownership of property from the state to the individual sitting tenant (see Hatcher, forthcoming). The importance of the propiska during the initial period of privatisation contrasts with the previous discussion on its framing as a ‘legacy’ or a ‘throwback’ that is holding back the economic development of Kyrgyzstan.…”

Section: The Propiska and Post-socialist Urban Changementioning

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“…In answering these questions we draw attention to Bishkek, a city that has remained relatively underexplored in studies on post-socialism save for some important research on migration and the related growth of informal settlements (Flynn and Kosmarskaya, 2012; Hatcher, 2015; Sanghera et al, 2012), on emerging urban youth identity (Ibold, 2010; Schroeder, 2010), and housing policies in relation to ongoing privatisation (Hatcher, forthcoming). While a small body of literature is emerging on other cities in Central Asia (Alexander et al, 2007; Darieva et al, 2012; Gentile and Tammaru, 2006), studies on post-socialist cities tend to remain geographically focused on Eastern and Central Europe.…”

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Institutional transition: Internal migration, the propiska, and post-socialist urban change in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Hatcher

Thieme

2015

Urban Studies

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, there has been remarkable enthusiasm for theorising how transitional processes have unfolded in post-socialist cities. In seeking to extend literature that uses the post-socialist condition as a tool for theory building, we draw attention to the ongoing processes of institutional change in post-socialist cities. In doing so, we reject a 'top-down' perspective and examine how these institutional transitions are shaped through processes of 'domestication', negotiation and contestation between different interest groups in the city. We develop our argument, by drawing attention to the local political debates surrounding the propiska in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The propiska developed throughout the Soviet Union to control internal migration and is still used today in a less restrictive form. By discussing our case study, we hope to foster attention towards the ongoing contested processes of institutional transition in post-socialist cities.

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Section: The Propiska and Post-socialist Urban Changementioning

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Institutional transition: Internal migration, the propiska, and post-socialist urban change in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Hatcher

Thieme

2015

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“…However, by the time the roll-out of the approach started in countries like Kyrgyzstan (Hatcher, 2015), Albania and the former Yugoslavia (Tsenkova, 2009), it was strongly criticised as an approach that failed to reach its objectives (Gilbert, 2002;Payne et al, 2009). Furthermore, a rich portfolio of alternative tenure solutions that better reflected the ways the urban poor organised land ownership matters, based on experiences from Latin America was documented by this time.…”

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Transcending path dependencies: Why the study of post-socialist cities needs to capitalise on the discussion on urbanisation in the South (and vice versa)

Gałuszka

2021

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Recently, the theoretical relevance and utility of the regionalised notion of post-socialist cities have been questioned. The ensuing debate has resulted in several positions, including suggestions to drop the term entirely or to create a distinctive narrative based on the concept of a Global East, in order to position the knowledge as equal vis-a-vis discourses originating from Western power centres. This article responds to this call through efforts to transcend the dominant frames of research on post-socialist cities. However, I argue that the first step in overcoming the subaltern positioning of local knowledge is to refocus attention on previously marginalised urban phenomena, and to link the post-socialist research agenda to existing empowering discourses. The importance of creating linkages with the research originating from the South, and the potential for such joint engagements to contribute to global theory-making are discussed in the context of the study of urban informality.

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“…Many middleand working-class families were financially excluded from the primary housing market, and were forced to buy or rent in the secondary market. Some resorted to building their own houses on the outskirts of the city (Hatcher, 2015). Hudson (2014: 215-216) observes that real estate is one of the key ways to extract income.…”

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The other road to serfdom: The rise of the rentier class in post-Soviet economies

Sanghera

Satybaldieva

2020

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This article offers a moral economic critique of the transition to a market economy in the post-Soviet space. In a reversal of the classical ideal of a ‘free market’ (a market free from land rent, monopoly rent and interest), neoliberalism celebrates and promotes rent extraction, sometimes over wealth creation (Hudson, 2017). In freeing markets from government regulation, neoliberalism enables powerful economic actors to extract income by mere virtue of property rights that entitle them to a stream of income from their ownership and control of scarce assets (Sayer, 2015). Neoliberalism has created and expanded the role of rent and unearned income in post-Soviet economies (Mihalyi & Szelenyi, 2017). This article will show the diversity and significance of rent in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan that go beyond natural resources and illicit public and private rent-seeking. Using three case studies on finance, real estate and the judiciary in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, this article will examine how property relations, rentier activities and unearned income have been morally justified and normalized. Despite its moral legitimation, rentiership has been harmful and damaging. It has produced social inequalities and suffering, and has resulted in plutocracy and corruption.

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Globalising homeownership: housing privatisation schemes and the private rental sector in post-socialist Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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Institutional transition: Internal migration, the propiska, and post-socialist urban change in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Institutional transition: Internal migration, the propiska, and post-socialist urban change in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Transcending path dependencies: Why the study of post-socialist cities needs to capitalise on the discussion on urbanisation in the South (and vice versa)

The other road to serfdom: The rise of the rentier class in post-Soviet economies

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