Bishkek Boys

<ul> <li> Pioneering: 1<sup>st</sup> long-term ethnographic study on an urban neighbourhood in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan</li> <li> Unique embedding of author: linking detailed micro-level insights from everyday encounters in a particular urban neighbourhood to larger-scale changes in Kyrgyz society such as migration economic development or ethnic nationalism</li> <li> Panorama of social ties: accessing integration and identity from such different angles as authority territory age-hierarchy friendship interethnic relations and urban socialization</li> <li> Intuitive composition: developing each chapter from a reference to the same key event – ‘the playground incident’ – to capture a multitude of identification and integration practices among young urban men in an urban setting of Central Asia </li></ul>