Central Eurasia in Context – serie
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22 produkter
State as Investment Market
Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2016
688 kr
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Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely criminal, but a type of market based on highly rational decisions made by the powerful individuals within, or connected to, the state.
Bukharan Crisis
A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia
Av Scott Levi
Häftad, 2020
457 kr
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In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions from the north and the south, rebellion, and then revolution. To date, efforts to …
Steppe Dreams
Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan
Inbunden, 2020
735 kr
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Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating effects in the personal lives of Kazakhstanis. Like many holidays in the post-Soviet sphere, public celebrations in Kazakhstan often reflect …
Toward Nationalizing Regimes
Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm
Inbunden, 2020
735 kr
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Finalist, 2021 CESS Book AwardThe collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this comparative study, Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that …
Central Asia
Contexts for Understanding
Inbunden, 2022
1237 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2023 CESS Outreach AwardCentral Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for …
Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz
Institutional Change and Endurance
Inbunden, 2022
880 kr
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During Soviet rule, the state all but imposed atheism on the primarily Islamic people of Kyrgyzstan and limited the tradition of polygyny—a form of polygamy in which one man has multiple wives. Polygyny did continue under communism, though chiefly under concealment. In the decades since the fall of …
Tashkent
Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966
Häftad, 2010
771 kr
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Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek archives, Stronski shows us how Soviet officials, planners, …
Chaos, Violence, Dynasty
Politics and Islam in Central Asia
Häftad, 2011
688 kr
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In the post-Soviet era, democracy has made little progress in Central Asia. In Chaos, Violence, Dynasty, Eric McGlinchey presents a compelling comparative study of the divergent political courses taken by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan in the wake of Soviet rule. McGlinchey examines …
Under Solomon's Throne
Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh
Av Morgan Liu
Häftad, 2012
771 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have …
Speaking Soviet with an Accent
Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan
Av Ali Igmen
Häftad, 2012
709 kr
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Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the future of Kyrgyz cultural identity and fostered the work of many artists, such as famed novelist Chingiz Aitmatov.Based on extensive oral history and …
Despite Cultures
Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Häftad, 2016
709 kr
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Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova analyzes the tactics of Soviet officials at the center and periphery that produced, imitated, and …
Force of Custom
Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan
Av Judith Beyer
Häftad, 2016
688 kr
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The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her extensive fieldwork and firsthand experience, Judith Beyer reveals how Kyrgyz in Talas province negotiate proper behavior …
Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia
Häftad, 2016
749 kr
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During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would follow similar events throughout the Islamic world in the prior two decades, which had negative effects on both social and political development. …
Practicing Islam
Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan
Häftad, 2016
688 kr
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David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in …
Paradox of Power
The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia
Av John Heathershaw, Edward Schatz
Häftad, 2017
749 kr
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"State weakness" is seen to be a widespread problem throughout Central Asia and other parts of post-socialist space, and more broadly in areas of the developing world. Challenging the widespread assumption that these "weak states" inevitably slide toward failure, Paradox of Power takes careful …
Nationalism in Central Asia
A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary
Av Nick Megoran
Häftad, 2017
749 kr
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Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. In his rich "biography" of the boundary, he employs a combination of political, cultural, historical, …
Azan on the Moon
Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway
Häftad, 2017
709 kr
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Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan …
Living Language in Kazakhstan
The Dialogic Emergence of an Ancestral Worldview
Häftad, 2017
688 kr
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Eva-Marie Dubuisson provides a fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and spiritual discourse of Kazakhs. In a climate of authoritarianism and economic uncertainty, many people in this region turn to their forebearers for …
Learning to Become Turkmen
Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014
Häftad, 2018
771 kr
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Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life—in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies—reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the past century. As Victoria Clement shows, the formal …
Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876
Central Asia in the Global Age
Av Scott Levi
Häftad, 2017
709 kr
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This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the …
From Belonging to Belief
Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan
Häftad, 2017
688 kr
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From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to …
Stalin's Nomads
Power and Famine in Kazakhstan
Häftad, 2018
771 kr
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Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and …
