Nation-building and personality cult in Turkmenistan : the Türkmenbasy phenomenon /

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"Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of its late president Saparmurat Niyazov Türkmenba?y, whose ideological construction and dynamics of power have remained in place after his death. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Leonardis, Fabio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Colección:Routledge advances in Central Asian studies.
Temas:
Tu̇rkmenbashy, Saparmyrat, > 1940-2006.
Tu̇rkmenbashy, Saparmyrat, > 1940-2006
Since 1991
Personality > Political aspects > Turkmenistan.
Nation-building > Turkmenistan.
Personnalité > Aspect politique > Turkménistan.
Reconstruction d'une nation > Turkménistan.
Nation-building
Politics and government
Turkmenistan > Politics and government > 1991-
Turkménistan > Politique et gouvernement > 1991-
Turkmenistan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction : Niyazov's Turkmenistan : yet another mystery wrapped in an enigma?
  • 1. What is a personality cult?
  • Personality cults and charisma
  • A variety of contexts
  • 2. Qadhdhafi's Libya : a 'maverick state'
  • An 'accidental state'
  • In Nasser's footsteps
  • Nation-building and leader-building
  • The 'Green Revolution' and the 'State of the Masses'
  • The nation beyond the nation : Qadhdhafi's pan-Arab nation-building
  • Islam as a marker of 'Arabness'
  • Reclaiming the past : a lineage of heroes
  • Twists and turns : the 'politics of contradiction'
  • 3. Turkmenistan : from 'tribal society' to modern nation?
  • The rise of modern Turkmenistan
  • The irresistible rise of S.N.
  • A dificult 'triple transition'
  • In search of legitimacy : the quest for a national ideology
  • 4. Niyazov's personality cult as a unifying tool for nation-building
  • The Turkmen Kaaba
  • A portrait of the ruler as a hero and as an ideologue
  • De-tribalization and re-tribalization
  • Re-writing history : the 'Golden Age'
  • Nationalist pedagogy : inventing new traditions, revising the old ones
  • Everyday pedagogy of the nation
  • The leader as the incarnation of justice
  • 'Turkmenbashizing' time : the nationalization of carpets and melons
  • 'Turkmenbashizing' space
  • Mobilizing the arts
  • Religion as an instrumentum regni
  • Banning everything 'foreign'
  • Rukhnama vs. The Green Book : an exercise in nationalist myth-making
  • Foreign policy : the leader as a peacemaker
  • Is there life after the 'founding fathers'?
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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