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Politics, identity and education in Central Asia : post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

Focusing on the areas of politics, identity and education, this book looks at some of the most pressing and challenging issues that Kyrgyzstan faces in the post-Soviet era. It argues that Kyrgyzstan is challenged with oscillations between the old and the new on the one hand, and domestic and interna...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Akçah, Pmar
Autres auteurs: Engin-Demir, Cennet
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Table des matières:
  • Politics, Identity and Education in Central Asia Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, maps and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I:Politics; 1 Patterns of elite consolidation and rivalry in Kyrgyzstan between 1960 and 2010; 2 The impact of Askar Akaev's political leadership in the process of democratization in Kyrgyzstan; 3 Colour revolutions and constitutionalism: the case of Kyrgyzstan; Part II:Identity; 4 "Circle of trust": functions and mechanisms of patron-client relations in the private farm.
  • 5 From herd breeding to land farming: social uses of descent and kinship in a Kyrgyz village6 Religious conversion and its impact on ethnic identity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan; Part III:Education; 7 Everyday realities of a young teacher in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: the case of a history teacher from a rural school; 8 Redefining students and universities in the Kyrgyz Republic; 9 Higher education in Kyrgyzstan: the inevitability of international actors; Conclusion; Index.