ISBN:
9781529211962
,
9781529211955
,
9781529211979
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 215 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Spaces of peace, security and development
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.4095843
Keywords:
Civil rights
;
Human security
;
Social conflict
;
Civil rights ; Kyrgyzstan
;
Human security ; Kyrgyzstan
;
Social conflict ; Kyrgyzstan
;
Kyrgyzstan ; Social conditions ; 21st century
;
Kyrgyzstan Social conditions 21st century
Abstract:
Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual orientation. It develops the concept of 'securityscapes', which draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure themselves - practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021)
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