A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies

Introduction: 40 Years of Central Asian Survey Rico Isaacs Section One: History Introduction Mikhail Akulov Excerpts The Russian conquest of Central Asia (1982), Mehmet Saray The role of the pristavstvo institution in the context of Russian imperial policies in the Kazakh Steppe in the nineteenth century (2014), Gulmira Sultangalieva The creation of Soviet Central Asia: The 1924 national delimitation (1995), Steven Sabol Humans as territory: forced resettlement and the making of Soviet Tajikistan, 1920–1938 (2011), Botakoz Kassymbekova Marriage, modernity, and the ‘friendship of nations’: interethnic intimacy in post-war Central Asia in comparative perspective (2007), Adrienne Lynn Edgar Section Two: Identity and Nationalism Introduction Kristoffer Rees Excerpts The politics of identity change in Soviet Central Asia (1984), S. Enders Wimbush Creating national identity in socialist Mongolia (1998), Christopher Kaplonski Imagined communities: Kazak nationalism and Kazakification in the 1990s (1999), Azamat Sarsembayev Nationalism as a geopolitical phenomenon: The Central Asian case (2001), Farkhod Tolipov Global Astana: nation branding as a legitimization tool for authoritarian regimes (2015), Adrien Fauve Section Three: Islam Introduction Galym Zhussipbek Excerpts Islam in Soviet central Asia, 1917–1930: Soviet policy and the struggle for control (1992), Shoshana Keller Soviet Islam since the invasion of Afghanistan (1982), Alexandre Bennigsen Islamic revival in the central Asian Republics (1994), Mehrdad Haghayeghi The logic of Islamic practice: a religious conflict in Central Asia (2006), Sergei Abashin Islamic discourses in Azerbaijan: the securitization of ‘non-traditional religious movements (2018), Galib Bashirov Section Four: Governing and the State Introduction Assel Tutumlu Excerpts Sharaf Rashidov and the dilemmas of national leadership (1986), Gregory Gleason Authoritarian political development in Central Asia: The case of Turkmenistan (1995), John Anderson Tajikistan amidst globalization: state failure or state transformation? (2011), John Heathershaw Disorder over the border: spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia (2018), Natalie Koch Section Five: Informal Institutions Introduction Dina Sharipova Excerpts ‘Tribalism’ and identity in contemporary circumstances: The case of Kazakstan (1998), Saulesh Esenova Neopatrimonialism, interest groups and patronage networks: the impasses of the governance system in Uzbekistan (2007), Alisher Ilkhamov Theories on Central Asian factionalism: the debate in political science and its wider implications (2007), David Gullette Political and social networks in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan: ‘clan’, region and beyond (2009), İdil Tunçer-Kılavuz Section Six: Contentious Politics Introduction Asel Doolotkeldieva Excerpts Central Asian riots and disturbances, 1989–1990: Causes and context (1991), Yaacov Ro'i Networks, localism and mobilization in Aksy, Kyrgyzstan (2005), Scott Radnitz Poetry of witness: Uzbek identity and the response to Andijon (2007), Sarah Kendzior The dynamics of regime change: domestic and international factors in the ‘Tulip Revolution’ (2008), David Lewis Post-violence regime survival and expansion in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan (2016), Erica Marat Section Seven: Gender Introduction Nodira Kholmatova Excerpts The politics of gender and the Soviet paradox: neither colonized, nor modern? (2007), Deniz Kandiyoti Making the ‘empowered woman’: exploring contradictions in gender and development programming in Kyrgyzstan (2018), Elena Kim, Asel Myrzabekova, Elena Molchanova & Olha Yarova Women of protest, men of applause: political activism, gender and tradition in Kyrgyzstan (2019), Judith Beyer & Aijarkyn Kojobekova What's in a name? The personal and political meanings of ‘LGBT’ for non-heterosexual and transgender youth in Kyrgyzstan (2010), Cai Wilkinson & Anna Kirey Section Eight: Everyday Life Introduction Rano Turaeva Excerpts Household networks and the security of mutual indebtedness in rural Kazakstan (1998), Cynthia Werner Staying put? Towards a relational politics of mobility at a time of migration (2011), Madeleine Reeves Wedding rituals and the struggle over national identities (2011), Sophie Roche & Sophie Hohmann ‘How can I be post-Soviet if I was never Soviet?’ Rethinking categories of time and social change – a perspective from Kulob, southern Tajikistan (2015), Diana Ibañez-Tirado Section Nine: Regional and Global Perspectives Introduction Zhanibek Arynov Excerpts Virtual regionalism, regional structures, and regime security in Central Asia (2008), Roy Allison Regime security, base politics, and rent-seeking: the local and global political economies of the American air base in Kyrgyzstan, 2001–2010 (2015), Kemel Toktomushev Blurring the line between licit and illicit: transnational corruption networks in Central Asia and beyond (2015), Alexander Cooley & J.C. Sharman 'Thoroughly reforming them towards a healthy heart attitude’: China’s political re-education campaign in Xinjiang (2019), Adrian Zenz