Together with @TahminaIn, we spoke to the young people of #Dushanbe, #Tajikistan about how they view the city's rapid urban transformation through the lens of decolonization, nation-building, power of capital, and privilege. 1/6
aljazeera.com/features/2021/… We find that Dushanbe's youth view the city's transformation - with a chaotic mix of grand new administrative buildings & glassy high-rises replacing old Soviet buildings - in more nuanced terms than their Soviet-raised parents or the city's Tajik often non-native majority. 2/6