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Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering.

Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the stand...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lottholz, Philipp
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Spaces of peace, security and development.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Series page
  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Transliteration and Language
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Entry: on (im)possible futures
  • Post-liberalism: understanding (dis)order in a post-Western-dominated world
  • Contributions to critical perspectives on peace, security and development
  • Outline of the book
  • 2 Theorizing Post-Liberal Forms of Statebuilding and Order-Making Globally
  • Introduction
  • Post-liberal thought from imperial history to the present
  • The failures and transmutations of 'liberalism' in the non-West ... and the West
  • Theorizing post-liberal peace: emancipation, governmentality and decoloniality
  • Emancipation vs governmentality?
  • Toward a decolonial perspective on post-liberal order
  • 'Community security' as discourse and practice of peace- and statebuilding
  • Community safety as crime prevention and neoliberal governmentality
  • The global spread of community policing and its discontents
  • Conclusion: Theorizing post-liberalism globally
  • 3 From Imaginary to Practice: Capturing the Multiple Meanings of Peace, Security and Order
  • Heteroglossia: the multiplicity of meanings in social processes
  • Conceptualizing the role of social imaginaries in social ordering
  • A cooperative and practice-based approach to research
  • Reflections from fieldwork and beyond
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Imaginaries and Discourses of Social Order in Kyrgyzstan
  • Introduction: Imaginaries of social order and transformations
  • The Western 'liberal peace' imaginary
  • The imaginary West
  • Globalization and capitalist development teleology
  • 'Made in Kyrgyzstan'
  • Hard work, perseverance and coping strategies
  • The 'politics of sovereignty' imaginary
  • The 'bad West'
  • Soviet modernity
  • Ethno-nationalism
  • Anti-colonialism
  • The 'tradition and culture' imaginary
  • 'Traditional' versus 'foreign' Islam
  • Traditional institutions and concepts of social order
  • Traditional knowledge as a source of well-being
  • Connections between humans, the natural and spiritual domain
  • Post-liberal statebuilding in Kyrgyzstan: a framework
  • 5 Local Crime Prevention Centres and the (After) Lives of the State in Rural Kyrgyzstan
  • Life in rural Kyrgyzstan between Soviet legacy and 'new market realities'
  • From economic and institutional collapse to a moral economy of survival
  • Translocal livelihoods and their implications for community security
  • Local-level governance, social institutions and crime prevention
  • Local self-governance and social institutions during and after the Soviet Union
  • LCPCs between executive authority and societal concerns
  • International security and peacebuilding programming
  • Practices and discourses of community security in southern Kyrgyzstan