Infrastructures as fluidities

In this chapter, we propose to conceptualize public transport infrastructures as fluidities, where not only the vehicles are in motion but also services, facilities and regulations. Actors in the local transport assemblages constantly experience a condition of liminality, relating to the qualification of Soviet and post-Soviet life as ‘societies of remont’ – all the more with regard to the stark contrast to state-funded public transport services of the Soviet era. The contribution will take on post-Soviet marshrutkas in order to empirically substantiate this argument, bringing in material from Tajikistan and Southern Russia.