Symbolism and Power in Central Asia

Politics of the Spectacular
Herausgeber: Cummings, Sally

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Produktbeschreibung

This book not only widens our understandings of developments in this geopolitically important region but also contributes to broader studies of representation, ritual, power and identity. This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780415575676
• ISBN-10: 0415575672
• Artikelnr.: 29933918

Autorenporträt

Sally N. Cummings teaches at the University of St. Andrews. Her current research focuses on the politics of culture and political communication, primarily in Central Asia. Her publications include: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's 'Tulip Revolution' (Routledge, 2009), Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite (IB Tauris 2005), Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia (London and New York: Routledge, 2003) and Kazakhstan: Centre-Periphery Relations (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs and Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Inscapes, Landscapes and Greyscapes: The Politics of Signification in
Central Asia Sally N. Cummings 2. Legitimising Central Asian
Authoritarianism: Political Manipulation and Symbolic Power Anna Matveeva
3. Nation Branding in Central Asia: A New Campaign to Present Ideas about
the State and the Nation Erica Marat 4. Searching for Kamalot: Political
Patronage and Youth Politics in Uzbekistan Eric M. McGlinchey 5. Michael
Romm's Ascent of Mount Stalin: A Soviet Landscape? Stuart Horsman 6. The
Art of the Impossible: Political Symbolism, and the Creation of National
Identity and Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan Michael Denison
7. Promising Futures? Education as a Symbolic Resource of Hope in
Kyrgyzstan Sarah S. Amsler 8. Identity, Symbolism, and the Politics of
Language in Central Asia William Fierman 9. The Invention of Legitimacy:
Struggles in Kyrgyzstan to Craft an Effective Nation-State Ideology Asel
Murzakulova and John Schoeberlein 10. Mass Spectacle and Styles of
Governmentality in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Laura L. Adams and Assel
Rustemova 11. Materialising State Space: 'Creeping Migration' and
Territorial Integrity in Southern Kyrgyzstan Madeleine Reeves 12.
Tajikistan's Virtual Politics of Peace John Heathershaw