Ethnographies of the state in central Asia : performing politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Reeves, Madeleine (Author, Editor), Beyer, Judith (Author, Editor)
Other Authors:	Rasanayagam, Johan, 1964- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Asia, Central > Politics and government > 1991- Asia, Central > Ethnic relations. Ethnology > Asia, Central.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Staging the political
The global performance state: a reconsideration of the Central Asian "weak state" / John Heathershaw
Dialogic authority: kazakh Aitys poets and their patrons / Eva-Marie Dubuisson
Performing democracy: state-making through patronage in Kyrgyzstan / Aksana Ismailbekova
"There is this law . . ." performing the state in the Kyrgyz courts of elders / Judith Beyer
Part II. Political materials, political fantasies
The master plan of Astana: between the "art of government" and the "art of being global" / Alima Bissenova
State building(s): built forms, materiality, and the state in Astana / Mateusz Laszczkowski
The bulldozer state: Chinese socialist development in Xinjiang / Ildiko Beller-Hann
The time of the border: contingency, conflict, and popular statism at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan boundary / Madeleine Reeves
Part III. Moral positionings
Reclaiming Ma'naviyat: morality, criminality, and dissident politics in Uzbekistan / Sarah Kendzior
The reshaping of cities and citizens in Uzbekistan: the case of Namangan's "new Uzbeks" / Tommaso Trevisani
Massacre through a kaleidoscope: fragmented moral imaginaries of the state in Central Asia / Morgan Liu
Cold War memories and post-Cold War realities: the politics of memory and identity in the everyday life of Kazakhstan's radiation victims / Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts.