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Constructing the Uzbek State

Narratives of Post-Soviet Years
Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures

von: Marlene Laruelle, Sergey Abashin, Peter Finke, Matteo Fumagalli, Alisher Ilkhamov, Morgan Y. Liu, Maria Louw, Nick Megoran, Svetlana Peshkova, Sebastien Peyrouse, Johan Rasanayagam, Noah Tucker, Rano Turaeva-Hoehne, Rustamjon Urinboyev, Russell Zanca
124,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	20.12.2017
ISBN/EAN:	9781498538374
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	384

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Titelbeschreibung

Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the transformations of the region as a whole. And yet, more than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, evaluating Uzbekistan’s post-Soviet transformation remains complicated. Practitioners and scholars have seen access to sources, data, and fieldwork progressively restricted since the early 2000s.
 
 
The death of President Islam Karimov, in power for a quarter of century, in late 2016, reopened the future of the country, offering it more room for evolution. To better grasp the challenges facing post-Karimov Uzbekistan, this volume reviews nearly three decades of independence. In the first part, it discusses the political construct of Uzbekistan under Karimov, based on the delineation between the state, the elite, and the people, and the tight links between politics and economy. The second section of the volume delves into the social and cultural changes related to labor migration and one specific trigger – the difficulties to reform agriculture. The third part explores the place of religion in Uzbekistan, both at the state level and in society, while the last part looks at the renegotiation of collective identities.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This collection provides a broad examination of contemporary Uzbekistan. The contributors analyze its geostrategic significance, its economic potential, and its demographic importance. This study also argues that the country’s political, social, and cultural evolutions symbolize the transformations of the region as a whole.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Marlene Laruelle
 
Part I: Uzbekistan’s Political Construct
 
Chapter 1: When Security Trumps Identity: Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy under Islam Karimov, Matteo Fumagalli
 
Chapter 2: The Magic of Territory: Remaking of Border Landscapes as a Spatial Manifestation of Nationalist Ideology, Nick Megoran
 
Chapter 3: Grand Corruption in Uzbekistan’s Telecommunications Sector: Root Causes and Social Costs, Alisher Ilkhamov
 
Chapter 4: Uzbek Political Thinking in the Third Decade of Independence, Morgan Y. Liu
 
Part II: Agriculture and Labor Migration. Changing the Social Fabric
 
Chapter 5: Government, Cotton Farms, and Labor Migration from Uzbekistan, Russell Zanca
 
Chapter 6: Uzbeks in Russia: A New Diaspora or a Transnational Society?, Sergei Abashin
 
Chapter 7: Establishing an “Uzbek Mahalla” via Smartphones and Social Media: Everyday Transnational Lives of Uzbek Labor Migrants in Russia, Rustamjon Urinboyev
 
Part III: Uzbek Islam: State Control, Resilience, and Resistance
 
Chapter 8: Counter-Extremism, Secularism, and the Category of Religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan: Should We Be Studying Islam at All?, Johan Rasanayagam
 
Chapter 9: At the Crossroads of Religion and Regime Security: Teaching Islam in Uzbekistan,
 
Sebastien Peyrouse
 
Chapter 10: Moral Exemplars and Ordinary Ethics: Sufism in Bukhara, Maria Louw
 
Chapter 11: The Evolving “Uzbek Jihad”: Islamist Militant Recruiting and State Responses, Noah Tucker
 
Part IV: Renegotiating Identities and Cultural Legacies
 
Chapter 12: Be(com)ing Uzbek: Patterns of Identification and Processes of Assimilation,
 
Peter Finke
 
Chapter 13: The Nation Narrated: Uzbekistan’s Political and Cultural Nationalism, Marlene Laruelle
 
Chapter 14: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan: Women, Religion, and Politics, Svetlana Peshkova
 
Chapter 15: Gender and Changing Women’s Roles in Uzbekistan: From Soviet Workers to Post-Soviet Entrepreneurs, Rano Turaeva-Hoehne

Autorenportrait

Marlene Laruelle is research professor, director of the Central Asia Program, and associate director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University.

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