Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan

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Conrad Schetter (Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)) Asel Myrzabekova

Surviving Everyday Life

The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan

Conrad Schetter (Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)), Asel Myrzabekova, Kathrin Oestmann , Hafiz Boboyorov

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English

Bristol University Press
01 August 2020

International relations; Geopolitics; Political geography

Series: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

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, sexual orientation or political activism. 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.

Contributions by: Conrad Schetter (Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)), Asel Myrzabekova, Kathrin Oestmann, Hafiz Boboyorov
Edited by: Marc von Boemcken (Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC))
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529211955
ISBN 10: 1529211956
Series: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 01 August 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface ~ Nina Bagdasarova Introduction~ Marc von Boemcken and Aksana Ismailbekova Studying Danger in Central Asia: Towards a concept of everyday securityscapes ~ Marc von Boemcken Security Practices and the Survival of Cafes in Southern Kyrgyzstan ~ Shavkhat Atakhanov and Abylabek Asankanov Securing the Future of Children and Youth: Uzbek private kindergartens and schools in Osh ~ Aksana Ismailbekova Selective Memories, Identities and Places: Everyday security practices of the Mughat Lyulis in Osh ~ Hafiz Boboyorov and Shavkhat Atakhanov How to Live with a Female Body: Securityscapes against sexual violence and related interpretation patterns of Kyrgyz women ~ Kathrin Oestmann and Anna M. Korschinek Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting moral panic, surviving in the present, and imagining the future ~ Asel Myrzabekova The Space-Time Continuum of the 'Dangerous' Body: LGBT securityscapes Kyrgyzstan ~ Nina Bagdasarova Postscript: Towards a Research Agenda on Security Practices ~ Conrad Schetter

Marc von Boemcken is Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). Nina Bagdasarova is Professor of Psychology at the American University of Central Asia. Aksana Ismailbekova is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). Conrad Schetter is Director for Research at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BCC).