Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia Performing Politics

Name: Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia Performing Politics
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ISBN: 9780253011411

ISBN-10: 0253011418

ISBN-13: 9780253011411

Edition: 2014

Authors: Madeleine Reeves, Johan Rasanayagam, Judith Beyer, John Heathershaw, Eva-Marie Dubuisson

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With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in settings that range from the local to the transnational, the mundane to the spectacular, to provide a unique perspective on how politics is performed in everyday life.

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction: Performances, Possibilities, and Practices of the Political in Central Asia




Staging the Political



The Global Performance State: A Reconsideration of the Central Asian "Weak State"




Dialogic Authority: Kazakh Aitys Poets and Their Patrons




Performing Democracy: State-Making through Patronage in Kyrgyzstan




"There is This Law..." Performing the State in the Kyrgyz Courts of Elders




Political Materials, Political Fantasies



The Master Plan of Astana: Between the "Art of Government" and the "Art of Being Global"




State Building(s): Built Forms, Materiality, and the State in Astana




The Bulldozer State: Chinese Socialist Development in Xinjiang




The Time of the Border: Contingency, Conflict and Popular Statism at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Boundary




Moral Positionings



Reclaiming Ma'naviyat: Morality, Criminality and Dissident Politics in Uzbekistan




The Reshaping of Cities and Citizens in Uzbekistan: The Case of Namangan's "New Uzbeks"




Massacre Through a Kaleidoscope: Fragmented Moral Imaginaries of the State in Central Asia




Cold War Memories and Post-Cold War Realities: The Politics of Memory and Identity in the Everyday Life of Kazakhstan's Radiation Victims