Surviving Everyday Life
Marc von Boemcken, Nina Bagdasarova, Aksana Ismailbekova, Conrad Schetter
Inbunden
1 193 kr
Blood Ties and the Native Son
Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
Del i serien New Anthropologies of Europe
876 kr
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A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with political patronage, Aksana Ismailbekova finds instead that this intertwining has in fact enabled democratization—both kinship and patronage develop apace with democracy, although patronage relations may stymie individual political opinion and action.
