ISBN:
9780822977926
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Series Statement:
Central Eurasia in Context Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89/432505843
Keywords:
Uzbeks Economic conditions
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Uzbeks Social conditions
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Nativistic movements
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Post-communism
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Uzbeks Government relations
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Uzbeks-Kyrgyzstan-Osh-Social conditions
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Uzbeks-Kyrgyzstan-Osh-Economic conditions
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Uzbeks-Kyrgyzstan-Osh-Government relations
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Post-communism-Kyrgyzstan-Osh
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Nativistic movements-Kyrgyzstan-Osh
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Nativistic movements ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh
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Post-communism ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh
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Uzbeks ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Economic conditions
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Uzbeks ; Kyrgyzstan ; Osh ; Government relations
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Electronic books
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Osh (Kyrgyzstan) Politics and government
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Osh (Kyrgyzstan) Ethnic relations
Abstract:
Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences. Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence. Morgan Liu illuminates many of the challenges facing Central Asia today by unpacking the predicament of Osh, a city whose experience captures key political and cultural issues of the region as a whole. Situated on the border of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan-newly independent republics that have followed increasingly divergent paths to reform their states and economies-the city is subject to a Kyrgyz government, but the majority of its population are ethnic Uzbeks. Conflict between the two groups led to riots in 1990, and again in 2010, when thousands, mostly ethnic Uzbeks, were killed and nearly half a million more fled across the border into Uzbekistan. While these tragic outbreaks of violence highlight communal tensions amid long-term uncertainty, a close examination of community life in the two decades between reveals the way Osh Uzbeks have created a sense of stability and belonging for themselves while occupying a postcolonial no-man's-land, tied to two nation-states but not fully accepted by either one. The first ethnographic monograph based on extensive local-language fieldwork in a Central Asian city, this study examines the culturally specific ways that Osh Uzbeks are making sense of their post-Soviet dilemmas. These practices reveal deep connections with Soviet and Islamic sensibilities and with everyday acts of dwelling in urban neighborhoods. Osh Uzbeks engage the spaces of their city to shape their orientations relative to the wider
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Interviews, Translations, and Transliteration -- Introduction: A City for Thought -- Chapter 1. Bazaar and Mediation -- Chapter 2. Border and Post-Soviet Predicament -- Chapter 3. Divided City and Relating to the State -- Chapter 4. Neighborhood and Making Proper Persons -- Chapter 5. House and Dwelling in the World -- Chapter 6. Republic and Virtuous Leadership -- Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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