Middle Ground (formerly Realms and Raions)
Charlie NormanDispatches from spaces in between: places and people, urbanism and ecology, transition and history. Written from Central Asia, by me.
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| Issues | 53 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 9 months ago |
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Dead End or Crossroads? The Remote Village of Gilan Faces a Loss as it Continues to Open Up.
Up ahead, two sheer walls of rock jut into the valley like bunker doors left half open. Behind them, vast peaks loom, twice the height of those that we had travelled around to reach this point. These natural gates feel less like a geographi...
Tashkent Is Speaking — Everyone Has the Chance to Listen
We are standing with our hands resting against a squat, pale-yellow wall in an unassuming courtyard just off the main prospect in Tashkent. The voice in our ears tells us to look up- to notice a second-storey balcony, where a washing line h...
Whose Language Is It Anyway?
In Russian, there is no single word that captures the English sense of “community.” Obshchestvo (общество) or soobshchestvo (сообщество) come close, but each falls short in its own way. Urbanists in Tashkent often struggle with this gap whe...
Hot and Flustered: High Temperatures and Frayed Inequalities
It’s mid-July, and Tashkent bakes for most of the day. Temperatures regularly hit 44°C (but never more- coincidentally, that’s the legal threshold where employers must start paying compensation). Even at night, it barely dips below 30°C. I...
Khiva- The Paradox of Holding Onto What You Have
There’s a well-known philosophical puzzle called the Ship of Theseus. A boat is gradually repaired as it rots over time until every plank, every nail, has been replaced. When nothing original remains, is it still the same ship?
This though...
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