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Constructing the Uzbek state : narratives of post-Soviet years /

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 transformat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Laruelle, Marlène (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Colección:Contemporary Central Asia (Lanham, Md.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Uzbekistan's political construct
  • When security trumps identity : Uzbekistan's foreign policy under Islam Karimov / Matteo Fumagalli
  • The magic of territory : remaking of border landscapes as a spatial manifestation of nationalist ideology / Nick Megoran
  • Grand corruption in Uzbekistan's telecommunications sector : root causes and social costs / Alisher Ilkhamov
  • Uzbek political thinking in the third decade of independence / Morgan Y. Liu
  • Agriculture and labor migration : changing the social fabric
  • Government, cotton farms, and labor migration from Uzbekistan / Russell Zanca
  • Uzbeks in Russia : a new diaspora or a transnational society? / Sergei Abashin
  • Establishing an Uzbek Mahalla via smartphones and social media : everyday transnational lives of Uzbek labor migrants in Russia / Rustamjon Urinboyev
  • Uzbek Islam : state control, resilience, and resistance
  • Counter-extremism, secularism, and the category of religion in the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan : should we be studying Islam at all? / Johan Rasanayagam
  • At the crossroads of religion and regime security : teaching Islam in Uzbekistan / Sebastien Peyrouse
  • Moral exemplars and ordinary ethics : Sufism in Bukhara / Maria Louw
  • The evolving Uzbek jihad : Islamist militant recruiting and state responses / Noah Tucker
  • Renegotiating identities and cultural legacies
  • Be(com)ing Uzbek : patterns of identification and processes of assimilation / Peter Finke
  • The nation narrated : Uzbekistan's political and cultural nationalism / Marlene Laruelle
  • Public life in private spaces in Uzbekistan : women, religion, and politics / Svetlana Peshkova
  • Gender and changing women's roles in Uzbekistan : from Soviet workers to post-soviet entrepreneurs / Rano Turaeva-Hoehne.